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The mission of the Clemson University Pee Dee Research and Education
Center is to conduct applied research that focus on the agricultural
cropping systems of the region which includes tobacco, cotton,
peanuts, soybeans, wheat, corm flax, lawn and golf course turf,
conservation tillage along with environmental and ecological studies.
Educational programs are then conducted at the Center and throughout
the region and state via County Extension Agents, publications, mass
media, newsletters, etc. In addition to the cropping systems
programs, educational programs in swine production and human nutrition
are conducted. In cooperation with USDA's, two scientist are also
located at the Center with research programs in cotton breeding and
utilization of cover crops in a cotton production system.
Website: "http://www.clemson.edu/peedeerec/"
[Summary provided by Clemson University.]
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