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The Department of Crop and Soil Sciences is located in the Plant and Soil Sciences Building along with the Department of Horticulture. The Plant and Soil Sciences Building provides office, laboratory and greenhouse space for most our faculty, graduate students, and project support staff.
The building's laboratory facilities offer a state-of-the-art environment for research and instruction as well as up-to-date-safety features. Over 80,000 square feet of laboratory space enables Michigan State University to be competitive with industrial research centers and to be more attractive to talented students and researchers. Researchers from the Crop and Soil Sciences and Horticulture departments work in close proximity, facilitating communication between professors working on parallel research.
In addition to these fine research facilities, the Plant and Soil Sciences building also includes over 76,000 square feet of instructional space, with a 230 seat lecture hall, greenhouse space with state-of-the-art facilities including a computer controlled temperature and ventilation system for both teaching and research activities, and 59 environment control rooms in which plants can be studied under specific temperature and humidity conditions.
Several of the facilities located in the Plant and Soil Sciences building are shared between the two departments. Facilities include a technical library and reading room, an instrument repair shop, data processing facilities, and a public computer laboratory.
As is the case with most agronomic departments in the country, we remain highly dependent upon field research facilities located on campus and at many locations off-campus, as well as on commercial farms in the state to accomplish its applied research and outreach mission.
The field research and extension facilities CSS has access to include: East Lansing Crops and Soils Teaching and Research Field Lab, Hancock Turfgrass Research Center, Mason Wheat and Soybean Research Facility (wheat and soybeans), Montcalm Research Farm (potatoes), Muck Soils Research Farm (agronomic and vegetable crops), Saginaw Valley Beet and Bean Research Farm (beans and sugar beets), Kellogg Biological Station (agronomic crops and livestock), Lake City (potatoes and forage crops), Clarksville Horticultural Experiment Station (wheat), Upper Peninsula Experiment Station (agronomic crops and livestock), and Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center.
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