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• Notables
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• New Projects
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HEADLINES

• Division of Agriculture Field Days

• Yanbin Li named to Tyson Chair in Biosensing Engineering

• New headquarters for Fruit Substation and SEBS

• Jim Moore named to ASHS Hall of Fame; Navaho named Outstanding Cultivar

• New York Times reports on Arkansas blackberries

• Poultry youth campers develop new products

• Belize team to receive Faculty-Student Collaboration Award

• Delta Classic raises scholarship funds

• Animal Science student is Bodenhamer Fellow

• Carver program provides taste of graduate school

• Don Herring retires as AEED head

• Bentley joins Division administrative team

• Bees removed from Old Main tower, put to work at AAREC

• Maxwell receives Animal Management Award

• SWCS presents best paper award to Sharpley

• Terry Siebenmorgen receives food engineering award

• ADA names Foote 'Outstanding Dietetics Educator'

• Communications projects win national awards

• Faculty members attend teaching camp

• 4-H O'Rama comes to campus

• KC Kauffman Scholars visit Bumpers College

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New headquarters for Fruit Substation and SEBS

Architect's elevation rendering of the new headquarters buildings for Southeast Branch Experiment Station at Rohwer.

New office buildings are under construction at the Division of Agriculture's Fruit Substation near Clarksville and the Southeast Branch Experiment Station near Dumas.

The 4,800 square foot buildings will both have a large meeting room, which will double as a workroom, along with offices, a laboratory, conference room, kitchen and reception area. Construction of both buildings is to be completed in eight months.

Both projects were designed by SCM Architects of Little Rock. General contractors are HYDCO of North Little Rock for the Fruit Substation and Davis Construction of Monticello for the SEBS.

SEBS Director Larry Earnest said the station was started in 1957 on 134 acres of donated land and another 500 acres purchased by the state; it now has about 800 acres of research plots in cotton, soybeans, corn, grain sorghum, rice and wheat. Variety trials are now being conducted for sunflowers as a possible energy crop.

In observance of the 50th anniversary, local supporters have started a fund for future improvements at the station, which is a unit of the Southeast Branch Station at Monticello and is also known as the SEREC-Rohwer Division.

Fruit Substation Director Dan Chapman said the substation has about 220 acres of blackberries, grapes, muscadines, blueberries, peaches, nectarines and apples. Most of the research involves plant breeding, cultural practices and variety testing.

The Fruit Substation was started at a different location near Lamar in 1948 and was relocated in the late 1950s to the present Red Lick Mountain site off Hwy. 21 north of Clarksville. The substation is a unit of the Department of Horticulture.

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