Montana Research Center expands focus

The Western Agricultural Research Center in Corvallis has opened a new chapter in its work to help farmers and

Established in 1907, the station is the oldest of seven Montana State University Ag stations in the state. There was talk of closing it because farm and ranch acreage has decreased in Ravalli County. But the station received a great deal of community and statewide support.

The center now has a new superintendent with a vision to enhance research on specialty fruit and vegetable crops.

"We need to produce enough food in a way that is profitable for farmers," said Superintendent Zach Miller, "in ways that we can keep doing that for decades and decades, and hand our farms and ranches off to our grandkids in better shape than when we got it."

For more: NBC Montana