 I'm standing at one of the branches of the Wyoming Agriculture Experiment Station. These stations were established by the Hatch Act in 1887 to help farmers and ranchers understand the complexities of agriculture production and feed a growing nation. Research being conducted at this center includes crop variety trials where irrigated and dryland crop varieties are evaluated for their suitability to Wyoming's climate. People looking at feeding livestock and the way they perform on various feeds and small scale renewable energy projects. Rangeland production is also analyzed in how livestock harvest the forage grown on the rangeland and various grazing systems. In the early 1900s, 60% of the population of the U.S. was directly involved in production agriculture. Today, that number is about 2%. Today we can produce twice the amount of beef with the same number of beef cows as we had in the 1950s and three times the amount of corn per acre. A lot of that increase in efficiency is due to research done here at the Agriculture Experiment Stations across the United States. I'm Dallas Mount, exploring the nature of Wyoming.