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  A brief and partial summary of the research activities proposed at the Dryland Research Station includes:
Continuing many present investigations to bring them to completion or to introduce additional variables, thus making the conclusions more comprehensive.
Develop winter wheat varieties meeting the emergence, hardiness, and disease resistance requirements of the low-rainfall dryland area.
Evaluate alternative crops suitable for use in the dryland area and how to best fit them into cereal-based annual cropping systems.
Long-term comparison of conventional wheat-fallow vs. annual spring cropping practices using no-till.
Herbicide-resistant wheat for the management of jointed goatgrass.
Agronomic and economic potential of spring wheat, spring barley, and alternative crops with minimum disturbance no-till planting.
Management systems with fall minimum tillage for direct seeding spring cereals and noncereal crops.
Evaluate the green bridge management option and the impacts on spring recropping.
Develop crop management systems to enhance soil quality.
Conservation research to provide knowledge and practices to preserve soil, and to address environmental concerns in a scientific, factual manner.