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Spooner Ag Research Station to Hold Centennial Celebration
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 10/08/2009

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Spooner Agricultural Research Station will celebrate its 100th birthday and commemorate a milestone in the history of Wisconsin agriculture later this month. Founded in 1909, the Spooner research station was the UW's first permanent branch research station--the beginning of a network of stations established across Wisconsin to facilitate research under a variety of growing conditions. By 1923 the school also had stations at Ashland, Marshfield, Hancock and Sturgeon Bay. Today it operates 11 off-campus stations, some in cooperation with USDA, on about 8,000 acres across the state.

To celebrate the accomplishment, the public is invited to visit the Spooner station from 1-4 p.m. on October 20 for a special ceremony. The program will feature remarks by Molly Jahn, Dean of the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, as well as presentations by station staff on the milestones in the station's history, it's current work and plans for the future.

When it established the Spooner operation, the university had been operating an experimental farm on the Madison campus for 40 years. But as farming took hold in the upper half of the state, it became apparent that lessons learned on southern Wisconsin's prairie soils didn't always apply up north, where the season was shorter and soils ranged from light sand to heavy clay. That's when it was decided that the school should branch out and start new locations for research.

Since its beginnings, the Spooner facility has grown to 383 acres and has been home to a wide array of crop and livestock research.

For more information about the centennial program, call 715-635-3735.


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