Home to the NCRA Executive Director, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Agricultural Hall looks out over beautiful Lake Mendota.

Kansas State University: Evaluation of switchgrass as a bioenergy crop in southwest Kansas.

Dr. Sylvie Brouder, Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University

University of Missouri researchers found that a chemical compound in needles from Red Cedar trees can kill MRSA. Red Cedar is an abundant and renewable resource that can be collected annually.

Michigan State University: Dennis Miller/canola: Research is underway to show Michigan growers how canola can be grown and then crushed locally, processed into biodiesel and used to fuel farm equipment.

Michigan State University: GLBRC intensive site: Biofuel crops are being grown and tested by AgBioResearch scientists to determine the productivity and environmental benefits of various biofuel cropping systems.

Kansas State University: Heifer development distiller's grains: Replacement heifers fed development rations containing either wet distiller's grains or soybean meal.

Michigan State University: AgBioResearch scientists have developed a mechanical means of positioning and pruning grapevines for optimal fruiting that takes one-fourth the time of work by hand, revolutionizing the industry.

Kansas State University: Studying the effects of prepartum supplementation of rumen-protected choline on cow reproductive performance.

Agronomy researchers at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Wallace Tyner, James & Lois Ackerman Prof Ag Econ, Purdue University

Kansas State University: PhD Entomology student from Columbia, German Vargas

Kansas State University: Phil Stahlman, Weed Scientist at the Agriculture Research Center in Hays, KS.

Michigan potato growers depend on the research done at several AgBioResearch centers for information on new varieties, storage, insects and diseases.

Kansas State University: Bob Aiken, Crop Research Scientist, Northwest Research Center in Colby, KS

A research team, led by plant scientists at the University of Missouri, has created a soybean variant that produces oil that does not have to be hydrogenated before going into food, adding no trans-fat.

Michigan State University: Thanks to research by an AgBioResearch animal scientist and his team, the variation of follicle numbers in cows is informing new ways to predict fertility in dairy cattle.

Holstein Cows in Sauk County, WI. Wisconsin cows are happy cows. Photo by Jeff Miller, 1997.

Kansas State University: Freddie Lamm, Irrigation Specialist at the Colby Experiment Station, Colby, KS

Kansas State University: Kent Martin, Soil Fertility Extension Secialist, Garden City SW Research Center

Kansas State University: John Holman, Cropping Systems Agronomist, Garden City SW Research Center

University of Missouri: Dr. Dylan Kessler and graduate student Allison Cox radio-tagged 33 juvenile red-bellied woodpeckers in the Mark Twain National Forest, south of Columbia, to follow their movements.

Kansas State University: Bob Gilliam, Head of the Hays Experiment Station

Plant pathology research at the University of Minnesota.

Kansas State University: Kent Shaw collecting rain water. Kent is the Mobile Irrigation Lab Coordinator, Garden City SW Research Center.

MSU AgBioResearch scientists are exploring ways to develop insecticides that protect fruit from insect pests such as fruit flies while safeguarding the environment and human health.

A MSU AgBioResearch scientist and his team are investigating whether this knowledge can be used to predict what will happen to the growth and regeneration of jack pine forests under future climate scenarios.

Using the only pilot plant-scale processing line for leafy greens in the country, a MSU AgBioResearch scientist and his team are working to provide food safety solutions for the growing and handling of leafy greens.

Cultures of photosynthetic bacteria (above) are used to develop microbial fuel cells that convert light into energy. Their green color is caused by the chlorophyll pigment that the bacteria use to fix the light.

Kim Williams, Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station.

Dr. Lisa Mauer, Associate Professor of Food Science, Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research, Purdue University

Forestry research at the University of Minnesota.

Frank White's Laboratory, Kansas State University, Agricultural Experiment Station.

Large animal internal medicine specialist Benjamin Darien checks on Seymour, a four-day-old baby camel receiving care at the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

A UW-Madison graduate student in entomology and microbiology, holds several female gypsy moth caterpillars that are part of her research on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a widely used organic insecticide.

Michigan State University: The annual MSU Weed Tour offers growers the latest information in weed management and provides a first look at some of the newer herbicide-resistant crop traits.

AgBioResearch scientists team up with Michigan Food and Farming Systems to teach farmers how to build hoophouses and manage the crops grown in them.

The nesting dynamics of black bass in several Michigan lakes are being studied to determine the effects of shoreline habitat alteration associated with residential development and spring fishing on these important fish populations.

Recoat beans: Michigan State University scientists, many of them affiliated with AgBioResearch, released 40 varieties of beans in the 20th century.

Dr. Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor/2009 World Food Prize Laureate, Purdue University