§ 6-64-707 - Rice Branch Experiment Station.
6-64-707. Rice Branch Experiment Station.
(a) For the purpose of enabling the Main Agricultural Experiment Station to more fully carry out the purposes of the experiment station, to increase and make more efficient and useful the agricultural research and experimental work of the state, and to increase the facilities of the experiment station for its work in agriculture and horticulture, crops, soil, fertilizers, livestock, dairying, poultry production, and the insect enemies and plant and animal diseases injurious to the crops and livestock of the state, and the economic problem of farm management and marketing and the related problems of the farms of this state, and to make the results of the work available to all parts of the state, there is created a Rice Branch Experiment Station to be located at a point at or near the center of rice production.
(b) The Rice Branch Experiment Station shall be located on soils fairly representative of the soils in which rice is grown in the state and shall be devoted to investigational work relative to the problems of rice farmers, including rice production, rice varieties, soils, and soil management, irrigation, rotation, other crops for the rice farmer, livestock and poultry for the rice region, and the fruits and truck crops adapted to such system of farming together with the economic problems of the farmers of that section.
(c) It shall consist of not over three hundred twenty (320) acres of land.
(d) When selected, established, and equipped, the branch station shall be and remain the property of the State of Arkansas for the use and purposes set forth in this section and shall be under the administrative charge of the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.
(e) (1) The director of the experiment station of the institution shall also be the Director of the Rice Branch Experiment Station, but there may be a superintendent at the station who shall be directly responsible to the Director of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station.
(2) The staff of scientists and the laboratories of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station shall serve, insofar as possible, the same purpose as the Rice Branch Experiment Station.
(3) The entire experimental work of the state shall be administered as one (1) institution for the benefit of the people of the state, including the Main Experiment Station, the Rice Branch Experiment Station, and the outlying field work in cooperation with farmers.
(f) (1) The Rice Branch Experiment Station shall be used by the board of trustees for the purpose of making investigations in and experiments of rice culture, and related subjects connected with the problems of the farmers and rice growers of the State of Arkansas, including crop production, animal production and breeding, plant breeding, soil and soil fertility, insect pests, diseases of plants and animals and methods of their control or eradication, farm management, marketing, storage, preservation of farm products, and all other problems affecting the farms and farm life of the rice-producing section of Arkansas.
(2) The director shall publish bulletins and reports from time to time giving the results of the work of the experiment station and use every endeavor to disseminate the information secured.