The Research and Outreach Centers offer a unique opportunity to conduct site specific horticultural crop research in vegetables, fruits and ornamental crops. Resident Horticultural Science faculty located at the Southern Research and Outreach Center and the NorthCentral Research and Outreach Center direct research and outreach programs and collaborate with several faculty from St. Paul campus on many other projects. Support staff located at the remaining ROCs coordinate horticultural research projects and educational events with faculty from St. Paul campus.
The following list of ROCs shows what programs are associated with the Department of Horticultural Science.
SROC - Southern Research and Outreach Center (Waseca):
- Integrated crop management (vegetable crops - fresh market and processing)
- Enhancing nutraceutical benefits in vegetable crops
- Chrysanthemum breeding program
NCROC - North Central Research and Outreach Center (Grand Rapids):
- Small fruit breeding and cultivar evaluation.
- Vegetable cultural management research.
- Woody ornamental evaluation (All American Trials)
- Flower cultural and cultivar evaluation.
- Vegetable cultivar evaluation.
- Tree fruit cultivar evaluation.
WCROC - West Central Research and Outreach Center (Morris):
- Flower cultivar evaluation
- Visitors Garden
- Strawberry and Apple Cultivar Development Department
- Potato Breeding
NWROC - Northwest Research and Outreach Center (Crookston):
