Capacity Projects
AFES is responsible for distributing federal funds designated through the McIntire-Stennis Forestry Â鶹¹ÙÍø Act of 1962 and the Hatch Act of 1887. This includes the Hatch Multistate Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fund, which allows researchers to work with teams of investigators from Agricultural Experiment Stations across the country to solve complex scientific problems of regional or national interest.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø funded by these capacity funds includes all aspects of agriculture, including soil and water resource conservation; plant and animal production, protection, and health; processing, distribution, safety, marketing, and utilization of food and agricultural products; forestry, range management and range products; reforestation; woodlands and related watershed management; outdoor recreation; wildlife habitats; wood utilization; sustainable agriculture; molecular biology; and biotechnology.
Explore our current capacity projects.