These scientists would conduct appropriate applied research, with emphasis on biotechnology. Campus scientists would also be encouraged and expected to carry out relevant research at the farm. University Outreach and Extension would be expected to house appropriate regional specialists in the Learning Center in order to collaborate with researchers and to extend applied research results to the end user. These moneys would be used to provide a core staff at the site. The committee is made up of agriculture producers and businessmen in northwest Missouri.
Members provide direction for research at the farm.
They also provide a core for public support of research conducted at the site. General producer support of the efforts at Hundley-Whaley is most evident at the annual tour of research and demonstrations at the farm. Attendance at the event is approximately eleven hundred farmers and other agri-business people. The farm consists of 364 acres of Grand River bottom land in Gentry county. There are six major soil types making up the Hundley-Whaley farm.