Centers & Programs

The Arkansas Clean Plant Center for Berries provides plant nursery operators and berry growers in Arkansas and the U.S. with plants that are free of targeted-pathogens

Arkansas Clean Plant Center

The Arkansas Clean Plant Center for Berries provides plant nursery operators and berry growers in Arkansas and the U.S. with plants that are free of targeted-pathogens.

Located at SAREC in Fayetteville, AFIC is the State’s premier center assisting all sizes of food entrepreneurs transition from concept to commercial, retail-ready product through expert food safety, processing, packaging, and regulatory advice and assistance

Arkansas Food Innovation Center

Located at SAREC in Fayetteville, AFIC is the State’s premier center assisting all sizes of food entrepreneurs transition from concept to commercial, retail-ready product through expert food safety, processing, packaging, and regulatory advice and assistance.

Located in Monticello, AFRC is a designated research and extension center of excellence that enhances and ensures the sustainability of forest-based natural resources through the interdisciplinary partnership of the Division of Agriculture and UA-Monticello.

Arkansas Forest Resources Center

Located in Monticello, AFRC is a designated research and extension center of excellence that enhances and ensures the sustainability of forest-based natural resources through the interdisciplinary partnership of the Division of Agriculture and UA-Monticello.

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Arkansas Water Resources Center

Located in Fayetteville, the Center is part of a national network to research irrigation, wastewater disposal, ground water, erosion, pollution, and ecosystems problems; enhance understanding of water quality issues; and transfer discoveries to water managers and the public.

Aerial photo of turfgrass research trials marked with little white corner markers

Center for Agricultural Data Analytics

The mission of the Center for Agricultural Data Analytics is to drive the advancement of research, collaboration, and training in cutting-edge data science throughout the Division of Agriculture and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Located in Fayetteville, CARS assists rural Arkansas balance the demands of community, agriculture, and ecosystems by providing economic development analysis, policy impact assessment, and best practices implementation

Center for Agricultural & Rural Sustainability

Located in Fayetteville, CARS assists rural Arkansas balance the demands of community, agriculture, and ecosystems by providing economic development analysis, policy impact assessment, and best practices implementation.

Located in Fayetteville, work in food and farming research and outreach gathered to discuss what we wanted our future Northwest Arkansas Food System to be and how our work in the Division of Agriculture could influence and shape it

Center for Arkansas Farms and Food

Located in Fayetteville, work in food and farming research and outreach gathered to discuss what we wanted our future Northwest Arkansas Food System to be and how our work in the Division of Agriculture could influence and shape it.

Located in Fayetteville, the goal of the research and legal experts with the Center is the improvement of food animal health, handling, food safety, and productivity through the discovery and implementation of optimal welfare practices

Center for Food Animal Wellbeing

Located in Fayetteville, the goal of the research and legal experts with the Center is the improvement of food animal health, handling, food safety, and productivity through the discovery and implementation of optimal welfare practices.

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Center for Food Safety

Located in Fayetteville, the CFS conducts research for the development, communication, and utilization of advanced technologies on safety and quality of food products with a focus on biological, chemical, and physical hazards.

Located in Fayetteville, the CFHN is a multi-disciplinary initiative of human nutrition faculty within the Division of Agriculture, UAF, and UAMS Northwest Arkansas who are conducting metabolic, environmental, behavioral, physical activity, and policy research

Center for Human Nutrition

Located in Fayetteville, the CFHN is a multi-disciplinary initiative of human nutrition faculty within the Division of Agriculture, UAF, and UAMS Northwest Arkansas who are conducting metabolic, environmental, behavioral, physical activity, and policy research.

Located on 12 privately owned farms in Arkansas that represent the production diversity of the state, the program conducts water quality research to determine the effectiveness of water and soil conservation practices utilized on working farms

Discovery Farms Program

Located on 12 privately owned farms in Arkansas that represent the production diversity of the state, the program conducts water quality research to determine the effectiveness of water and soil conservation practices utilized on working farms.

The Center is committed to developing an international program of scholarship embracing the University’s three-fold land-grant mission of research, teaching, and outreach

Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence

The Center is committed to developing an international program of scholarship embracing the University’s three-fold land-grant mission of research, teaching, and outreach.

Located in Fayetteville, the NALC is the nation’s leading source of unbiased agricultural and food law research and information for policy makers and the agricultural community and is directly connected to the national agricultural information network

National Agricultural Law Center

Located in Fayetteville, the NALC is the nation’s leading source of unbiased agricultural and food law research and information for policy makers and the agricultural community and is directly connected to the national agricultural information network.

Located in Fayetteville, the Program conducts both basic and applied research to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of current rice processing operations, and provides fundamental information for the development of new products and processes

Rice Processing Program

Located in Fayetteville, the Program conducts both basic and applied research to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of current rice processing operations, and provides fundamental information for the development of new products and processes.

The Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center was dedicated in 1996 to develop and implement effective, economical and environmentally responsible biological alternatives to chemical management of agricultural pest problems

Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center

The Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center was dedicated in 1996 to develop and implement effective, economical and environmentally responsible biological alternatives to chemical management of agricultural pest problems.

The Arkansas Clean Plant Center for Berries provides plant nursery operators and berry growers in Arkansas and the U.S. with plants that are free of targeted-pathogens

Arkansas Clean Plant Center

The Arkansas Clean Plant Center for Berries provides plant nursery operators and berry growers in Arkansas and the U.S. with plants that are free of targeted-pathogens.

Located at SAREC in Fayetteville, AFIC is the State’s premier center assisting all sizes of food entrepreneurs transition from concept to commercial, retail-ready product through expert food safety, processing, packaging, and regulatory advice and assistance

Arkansas Food Innovation Center

Located at SAREC in Fayetteville, AFIC is the State’s premier center assisting all sizes of food entrepreneurs transition from concept to commercial, retail-ready product through expert food safety, processing, packaging, and regulatory advice and assistance.

Located in Monticello, AFRC is a designated research and extension center of excellence that enhances and ensures the sustainability of forest-based natural resources through the interdisciplinary partnership of the Division of Agriculture and UA-Monticello.

Arkansas Forest Resources Center

Located in Monticello, AFRC is a designated research and extension center of excellence that enhances and ensures the sustainability of forest-based natural resources through the interdisciplinary partnership of the Division of Agriculture and UA-Monticello.

Woman standing in stream bends to place a small box containing monitoring equipment in the water

Arkansas Water Resources Center

Located in Fayetteville, the Center is part of a national network to research irrigation, wastewater disposal, ground water, erosion, pollution, and ecosystems problems; enhance understanding of water quality issues; and transfer discoveries to water managers and the public.

Aerial photo of turfgrass research trials marked with little white corner markers

Center for Agricultural Data Analytics

The mission of the Center for Agricultural Data Analytics is to drive the advancement of research, collaboration, and training in cutting-edge data science throughout the Division of Agriculture and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Located in Fayetteville, CARS assists rural Arkansas balance the demands of community, agriculture, and ecosystems by providing economic development analysis, policy impact assessment, and best practices implementation

Center for Agricultural & Rural Sustainability

Located in Fayetteville, CARS assists rural Arkansas balance the demands of community, agriculture, and ecosystems by providing economic development analysis, policy impact assessment, and best practices implementation.

Located in Fayetteville, work in food and farming research and outreach gathered to discuss what we wanted our future Northwest Arkansas Food System to be and how our work in the Division of Agriculture could influence and shape it

Center for Arkansas Farms and Food

Located in Fayetteville, work in food and farming research and outreach gathered to discuss what we wanted our future Northwest Arkansas Food System to be and how our work in the Division of Agriculture could influence and shape it.

Located in Fayetteville, the goal of the research and legal experts with the Center is the improvement of food animal health, handling, food safety, and productivity through the discovery and implementation of optimal welfare practices

Center for Food Animal Wellbeing

Located in Fayetteville, the goal of the research and legal experts with the Center is the improvement of food animal health, handling, food safety, and productivity through the discovery and implementation of optimal welfare practices.

Woman wearing white lab coat examines a petri dish

Center for Food Safety

Located in Fayetteville, the CFS conducts research for the development, communication, and utilization of advanced technologies on safety and quality of food products with a focus on biological, chemical, and physical hazards.

Located in Fayetteville, the CFHN is a multi-disciplinary initiative of human nutrition faculty within the Division of Agriculture, UAF, and UAMS Northwest Arkansas who are conducting metabolic, environmental, behavioral, physical activity, and policy research

Center for Human Nutrition

Located in Fayetteville, the CFHN is a multi-disciplinary initiative of human nutrition faculty within the Division of Agriculture, UAF, and UAMS Northwest Arkansas who are conducting metabolic, environmental, behavioral, physical activity, and policy research.

Located on 12 privately owned farms in Arkansas that represent the production diversity of the state, the program conducts water quality research to determine the effectiveness of water and soil conservation practices utilized on working farms

Discovery Farms Program

Located on 12 privately owned farms in Arkansas that represent the production diversity of the state, the program conducts water quality research to determine the effectiveness of water and soil conservation practices utilized on working farms.

The Center is committed to developing an international program of scholarship embracing the University’s three-fold land-grant mission of research, teaching, and outreach

Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence

The Center is committed to developing an international program of scholarship embracing the University’s three-fold land-grant mission of research, teaching, and outreach.

Located in Fayetteville, the NALC is the nation’s leading source of unbiased agricultural and food law research and information for policy makers and the agricultural community and is directly connected to the national agricultural information network

National Agricultural Law Center

Located in Fayetteville, the NALC is the nation’s leading source of unbiased agricultural and food law research and information for policy makers and the agricultural community and is directly connected to the national agricultural information network.

Located in Fayetteville, the Program conducts both basic and applied research to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of current rice processing operations, and provides fundamental information for the development of new products and processes

Rice Processing Program

Located in Fayetteville, the Program conducts both basic and applied research to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of current rice processing operations, and provides fundamental information for the development of new products and processes.

The Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center was dedicated in 1996 to develop and implement effective, economical and environmentally responsible biological alternatives to chemical management of agricultural pest problems

Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center

The Rosen Alternative Pest Control Center was dedicated in 1996 to develop and implement effective, economical and environmentally responsible biological alternatives to chemical management of agricultural pest problems.