21-17-302. Location and acreage of farms; supervision and control.

(a) The state may conduct experimental farms:

(i) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 147, § 3.

(ii) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 147, § 3.

(iii) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 147, § 3.

(iv) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 147, § 3.

(v) At or near Sheridan, Sheridan county, Wyoming.

(b) The board of trustees of the University of Wyoming and the department of family services shall conclude arrangements for agricultural experimental programs under their joint control to be conducted upon and in connection with farm property of the Wyoming boys' school at Worland, Wyoming, using not less than eighty (80) and not more than one hundred (100) acres of ground on the premises. The arrangements shall include provision for an apartment in the buildings of the institute as living quarters for the superintendent of programs and for availability in the operations of labor from the institute's committed personnel as selected by the superintendent of the institute and jointly controlled during their working hours by that superintendent and the superintendent of the experimental station.

(c) The board of trustees of the University of Wyoming shall provide for the operation of a research station at Powell, Wyoming to conduct programs related to soils, vegetation diseases, fertilizers, insects, irrigation phases and other related factors, in order to effectuate reduction or elimination of causes detrimental to agriculture. The board of trustees of the university may also provide for the operation of a sustainable agricultural research and extension center in Goshen county, Wyoming.