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What is the Agricultural Research Center? Is it part of CAHNRS?

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What is the Agricultural Research Center? Is it part of CAHNRS?

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The Washington State University Agricultural Research Center (ARC) is the Agricultural Experiment Station of the State of Washington. The goal of the ARC is to promote research beneficial to the citizens of Washington. Administratively, the ARC sits within CAHNRS, but also includes scientists from other WSU colleges. What is WSU doing for organic agriculture in terms of research and education? Does that take way from what the university does for traditional growers? Of the $23 million in state-appropriated dollars expended by the Agricultural Research Center in fiscal 2005, $3.8 million was expended for research relevant to organic and sustainable agriculture. The research advances CAHNRS scientists make in cropping systems—organic or traditional—can, and have had, benefits for both, e.g., integrated pest management for codling moth in apples and precision agriculture. We are a state institution funded with federal, state and private dollars and are responsive to the emerging needs and

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