The Plateau AgResearch and Education Center is the site of studies on the efficiency of livestock enterprises, fruit and vegetable production and marketing, soil fertility and conservation research, and hay and pasture studies. Early studies at the Center helped bring mechanical harvesting of green beans to Tennessee.
Today the Center’s research programs reach across the state and the US. One of the Center’s multistate, multiagency, multidisciplinary efforts is in the Rutgers University-based Inter-Regional Research Project No. 4, which involves the USDA, EPA, the agri-chemicals industry, and others in investigations of minor crops—those grown on 300,000 acres or less, which encompasses most food crops other than large-acreage commodity crops such as corn and soybeans.
The UT Gardens, Crossville, provides an ideal setting for ornamental and experiential research in a plateau environment, specifically the Cumberland Plateau. 
Forage research plots are a focus of the Plateau AgResearch and Education Center. 
Our modern GrowSafe System measures precise food consumption intake and other variables important in monitoring the health of our cattle. 
Installing raised beds for future crop research. 
