Research center marks 75 years of cutting-edge crop science
Jessica Torrion, Superintendent of Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston, inspects a row of the Center's winter wheat crop on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Jessica Torrion, Superintendent of Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston, talks about the Center's winter wheat crop on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Winter wheat grows in rows at Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily
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Maggie Sands lays out spring wheat seeds on germination paper while she and research associate Dan Porter perform germination tests at Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Maggie Sands lays out spring wheat seeds on germination paper while she and research associate Dan Porter perform germination tests at Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Jessica Torrion, Superintendent of Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston, talks about the Center's new no-till drill on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Research associate Dan Porter places spring wheat seeds into a seed-counting machine before running germination tests at Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Winter wheat grows in rows at Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily
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A Case International combine waits for harvest season inside an equipment barn at Montana State University's Northwestern Agricultural Research Center in Creston on Wednesday, March 27. (Casey Kreider/Daily
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Walking through a plot of winter wheat plantings just starting to push up through the dark soil in Creston, Jessica Torrion sees the results of decades of hard work and research.
All over the property at the Northwest Agricultural Research Center, high tech research equipment mingles with decades old farming implements.
“At first we were using shovels, using animals,” said Torrion, who serves as the center’s superintendent. “You can see that in our 1949 field day. But nowadays, we have this very advanced equipment attached to a GPS that’s very precise, and we’ve come a long way.”
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