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Vegetable Research StationP. O. Box 26083810 Thornhill Street Alma, AR 72921 (near Kibler) 479-474-0475 Fax:479-474-0164 Dennis Motes, Resident Director In Charge: dmotes@uark.edu Driving directions: From I-40, take Exit 13 onto Hwy 71 South. Proceed for .5 miles straight on to Hwy. 162 West. Proceed on Hwy. 162 West through Alma for 4.4 miles into Kibler. Turn south off of Hwy. 162 West onto Thornhill Street (Hwy. 819 South). Proceed 3.5 miles on Thornhill Street to the Station entrance on the right.
The primary mission of the station is to conduct research on vegetable crops that are important to the local economy and the state. Special emphasis is placed on breeding programs in spinach, greens, and southern peas for disease resistance and improved quality, as well as disease and insect control. Research on agronomic crops is also an important part of the work with variety testing in wheat and soybeans being carried out along with fungicide testing, soil fertility studies, a canola breeding program, and a wheat breeding program and nursery being maintained at the station. CURRENT ACTIVITIES We are currently coordinating the research projects involved with the departments on campus and with the Cooperative Extension Service. These projects include plot production of breeding programs, variety trials, seed increases, pesticide studies, cultural studies, and fertility studies on not only horticultural crops, but the agronomic crops as well. Maintenance of the plots includes soil preparation, planting, fertilizing, spraying, cultivation, irrigation, data collection, harvesting, and greenhouse breeding work. Graduate students are also assisted in completing their thesis plot work. RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND INVESTIGATORS
Plant Disease Research -- Dr. James Correll, Plant Pathology
Wheat Breeding and Pathology -- Dr. Gene Milus, Plant Pathology
Soybean and Rice Pathology &ndash Dr. Rick Cartwright , Plant Pathology
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The Vegetable Research Station is a small but highly utilized station that serves as a field laboratory for the research faculty and extension specialists from the main campus at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The station consists of 87 acres of irrigated plot land owned by the University of Arkansas and is staffed by a Resident Director, two Research Associates, and three classified employees. The main campus departments served include Horticulture Plant Pathology Entomology Food Science and Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences.
