Research Facilities and Equipment

The department maintains specialized equipment for evaluation of grain quality as well as the customary laboratory equipment, such as spectrophotometers, gas chromatographs, a particle size analyzer, high performance liquid chromatographs, various electrophoretic devices, differential scanning calorimeter, and computer terminals. Flour mills ranging up to pilot-plant size; three completely equipped bake labs; rheological instruments for dough testing; laboratory-scale high temperature extruder; and several pasta-processing units are examples of this specialized equipment.

In addition, the department has access to equipment and instrumentation in the Northern Crops Institute and USDA Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat Quality Laboratory housed in the same building complex.