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Plant Materials Centers

Plant Materials Centers

Arizona - Tucson Plant Materials Center

Tucson Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah

Established: 1934
Size: 43.95 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS

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Arkansas - Booneville Plant Materials Center

Booneville Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma

Established: 1987
Size: 269.8 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: State of Arkansas

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Florida - Brooksville Plant Materials Center

Brooksville Plant Materials Center 
Serving states in the Southeast and the Territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands

Established: 1947
Size: 182 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS

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Georgia - Jimmy Carter Plant Materials Center

Jimmy Carter Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee

Established: 1936
Size: 327 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS

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Hawaii - Ho'olehua Plant Materials Center

Ho'olehua Plant Materials Center 
Serving the State of Hawaii and the Pacific Basin Area islands of Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.

Established: 1957
Size: 81.18 of acres
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Hoolehua Plant Materials Center

Serving the State of Hawaii and the Pacific Basin Area islands of Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.

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Idaho - Aberdeen Plant Materials Center

Aberdeen Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming

Established: 1939
Size: 82 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: South Bingham Soil Conservation District and Idaho Department of Fish and Game

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Kansas - Manhattan Plant Materials Center

Manhattan Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma

Established: 1936
Size: 169.5 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS

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Louisiana - Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center

Golden Meadow Plant Materials Center
Serving areas in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

Established: 1989
Size: 85.38 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: The Greater Lafourche Port Commission

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Manhattan Plant Materials Center (KSPMC)

The Manhattan Plant Materials Center (KSPMC) develops plants and new plant technologies for America’s heartland. The Center offers services to a diverse region of the heartland including northeastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and northern Oklahoma.

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Michigan - Rose Lake Plant Materials Center

Rose Lake Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania

Established: 1958
Size: 40 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: Michigan Department of Natural Resources

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Mississippi - Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center

Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, and Tennessee

Established: 1960
Size: 360 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: United States Forest Service

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Missouri - Elsberry Plant Materials Center

Elsberry Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri

Established: 1934
Size: 243 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS

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Montana - Bridger Plant Materials Center

Bridger Plant Materials Center 
Serving the States of Montana and Wyoming

Established: 1959
Size: 130 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: Conservation Districts in Montana and Wyoming

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Nevada - Great Basin Plant Materials Center

Great Basin Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Nevada, Oregon, California, and Utah

Established: 2006
Size: 82.17 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: University of Nevada, Reno

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New Jersey - Cape May Plant Materials Center

Cape May Plant Materials Center
Serving areas in the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Long Island- New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia

Established: 1965
Size: 83.87 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS and the State of New Jers

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New Mexico - Los Lunas Plant Materials Center

Los Lunas Plant Materials Center
Serving areas in the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

Established: 1937
Size: 80 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: New Mexico State University

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New York - Big Flats Plant Materials Center

Big Flats Plant Materials Center 
Serving the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont

Established: 1940
Size: 203 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS

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North Dakota - Bismarck Plant Materials Center

Bismarck Plant Materials Center 
Serving the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota

Established: 1954
Size: 70 acres
Land Ownership: North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts
PMC Operation: NRCS

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Oregon - Corvallis Plant Materials Center

Corvallis Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of California, Oregon, and Washington

Established: 1957
Size: 58 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: Oregon State University

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Texas - E. "Kika" de la Garza Plant Materials Center

E. "Kika" de la Garza Plant Materials Center 
Serving the southern portion of the State of Texas

Established: 1981
Size: 76 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: Texas A&M University and King Ranch

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Texas - East Texas Plant Materials Center

East Texas Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and East Texas

Established: 1982
Size: 75 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: United States Forest Service

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Texas - James E. "Bud" Smith Plant Materials Center

James E. 'Bud' Smith Plant Materials Center
Serving areas in the States of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas

Established: 1965
Size: 137.5 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: Private

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Washington - Pullman Plant Materials Center

Pullman Plant Materials Center 
Serving areas in the States of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

Established: 1935
Size: 156.5 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS 

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West Virginia - Appalachian Plant Materials Center

Appalachian Plant Materials Center
Serving areas in the States of Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia

Established: 1998
Size: 184.41 acres
PMC Operation: NRCS
Land Ownership: NRCS