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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

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Subjects of Investigation
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Biological Cell Systems
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Cultured aquatic animals, general/other
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Endangered species
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
Fungi (includes yeast)
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Grasslands, other
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Invertebrates, general/other
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Mountain grasslands, meadow, and alpine
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other dairy cattle products
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Seeds and other plant propagules
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Perennial grasses, other
item Action Area No. 2 (AA2) – Greenhouse Gas Research Network – Plains Area Cropland Emissions (Mandan)
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research Between ARS and University of Alaska - Fairbanks
item Collaborative Food Production Systems Research for Alaska - A Cooperative Agreement
item Continuing Technology Development for Sustainable Land Management, Monitoring, and Research
item Developing Remote Sensing and Image Processing Tools for North Dakota Agricultural and Rangeland Applications
item Development of a rangeland Resilience and Threats (rRAT) tool for US producers
item Development of Rangeland Fractional Cover and Production Models
item Development of the Aeolian EROsion (AERO) Model and Landscape Data Commons
item EDIT Update
item Fire Effects on Microbial Communities and Soil Health in Northern Great Plains Grasslands
item Great Plains Indigenous Seeds and Plants Research with United Tribes Technical College
item Improve Temporal and Spatial Coverage of National Conservation Activity Data
item Knowledge Systems and Tools to Increase the Resilience and Sustainability of Western Rangeland Agriculture
item Long-Term Agroecosystems Research (LTAR) Human Dimensions Data Collection and Assessment
item Maintaining and Improving the Rangeland Analysis Platform
item Measuring Production on North American Rangelands
item Measuring Production on North American Rangelands
item Monitoring Tools and Research in Support of Adaptive Management
item Monitoring Tools and Research in Support of Adaptive Management
item Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory and Area IV Soil Conservation Districts Research Farm Agreement
item Outreach and Communication for the Rangeland Analysis Platform
item Rangeland Analysis Platform Support and Development
item Standardized Monitoring Implementation and Research
item Transdisciplinary Research that Improves the Productivity and Sustainability of Northern Great Plains Agroecosystems and the Well-Being of the Communities They Serve
item Wildlife, Soil, and Plant Monitoring and Technologies to Improve Agricultural Systems Management