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A NEW Grassland Research Station for Great Britain is being established by the Minister of Agriculture and the Secretary of State for Scotland in co-operation with the Agricultural Research Council. The new Station will occupy an area of 500 acres at Hurley, Berkshire, adjoining the new Berkshire Farm Institute. Its work will be the investigation of problems relating to the sward and its production and maintenance under different conditions, but mainly under those of medium and low rainfall. The existing Grassland Improvement Station at Dray ton, Stratford-on-Avon, will be transferred to and amalgamated with the new Station. The work at Hurley will be carried out in close co-operation with that of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station at Aberystwyth, the Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding and other research institutions, and it will be under the scientific supervision of the Agricultural Research Council. The Station will be controlled by a Governing Body which will be constituted as a company limited by guarantee and without share capital, grant-aid being given by the Ministry of Agriculture. The thirteen members who have been appointed to the Governing Body, and of which Prof. H. G. Sanders is chairman, provide a balanced representation of scientific knowledge and practical farming experience.
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New Grassland Research Station at Hurley, Berks. Nature 163, 477 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163477c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163477c0