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E-mail: agres@uidaho.edu

The Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station (IAES) is the administrative research division of the College of Agriculture at the University of Idaho and is responsible for the college's state-wide programming in agricultural research. The IAES is located on the University of Idaho campus in Moscow. Accordingly, the IAES is not a specific location (as the term "station" might infer), but rather is a complex, integrated network of locations, facilities, and faculty and staff all dedicated to performing agricultural research in support of Idaho's complex agricultural industry.

The IAES funds about 71 full-time faculty equivalents that are distributed among approximately 110 faculty members and 145 full-time technical support staff. Research faculty of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences often have split appointments and have additional responsibilities for academic and/or extension programming. Approximately half of the IAES' total personnel are located on the University of Idaho campus and half are located at the college's eleven Research and Extension Centers across Idaho.

The IAES has an annual appropriated budget of approximately $16.3 million dollars with about 87% coming from the State of Idaho and 13% coming from the USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (Hatch Act Funds).  In addition to the appropriated agricultural research resources, faculty in the college currently attract about $15 million per year in external research grants and contracts.

Approximately 70 percent of agriculture research programs are focused on solving problems encountered by Idaho citizens while 30 percent of the effort is in more fundamental science areas. All research is conducted in relation to problems/issues encountered in Idaho, even though much of the scientific information generated is also applicable at the regional and national levels.

All faculty members of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, who have agricultural research responsibility and official IAES research projects in the eight academic departments of the college, are affiliated with the IAES and receive funding to support salaries (faculty and technical support personnel) and research operations through the IAES. The IAES is administered by the college's Associate Dean for Research or IAES Director, Greg Bohach, who has responsibility for maintaining the college's research facilities and infrastructure and is the accountable university official for all state and federal funds appropriated for agricultural research.