Mission
The mission of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is to provide the American public with an exceptionally talented, highly interdisciplinary scientific community in the USDA’s largest scientific installation, and leverage these resources to envision, create, and improve knowledge and technologies that enhance the capacity of the nation – and the world – to provide its people with healthy crops and animals; clean and renewable natural resources; sustainable agricultural systems; and agricultural commodities and products that are abundant, high-quality, and safe.Beltsville Agricultural Research Center labs:
- Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory
- Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory
- Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory
- Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory
- Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory
- Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory
- Bee Research Laboratory
- National Germplasm Resources Laboratory
- Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory
- Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory
- Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory
- Soybean Genomics & Improvement Laboratory
- Systematic Entomology Laboratory
- Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory
- Food Quality Laboratory
- Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory