Capacity Projects
AFES is responsible for distributing federal funds designated through the McIntire-Stennis Forestry Research Act of 1962 and the Hatch Act of 1887. This includes the Hatch Multistate Research 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.
Research 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.