Facilities

The college and its divisions are home to a wide variety of research facilities, many of which attract competitive federal funding. Their missions include goals related to research, education, and outreach. Their focus areas address diverse issues such as the environment, plant and animal biology, and human health and well-being.

Beers

August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory

The August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory houses the UC Davis Brewing Program's brewery as well as a food processing pilot plant.
UC Davis Animal Science Professor Huaijun Zhou with white leghorn chickens.

Avian Research and Teaching Facilities

The Avian facilities has three locations across campus.
Oranges and chia pudding

California Processing Tomato Industry Pilot Plant

The California Processing Tomato Industry Pilot Plant has 8,000 square feet of research space supporting undergraduate education, academic research, and industry research and development.
Two researchers work in a greenhouse.

Contained Research Facility

The Contained Research Facility provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate invasive plant pests that otherwise could not be studied under normal laboratory conditions.
Professor Ermias Kebreab is conducting research to find out if seaweed will reduce methane emissions from cows.

Dairy Teaching and Research Facility

The UC Davis Dairy Teaching and Research Facility has a milking herd of 105 cows, excluding dry cows, are milked two times per day in a modern single herringbone parlor with automatic takeoffs, cow identification and production recording.
UC Davis student Jennifer Sanchez-Malagon with a child at the Early Childhood Lab School. Photo by: Jael Mackendorf, UC Davis.

Early Childhood Laboratory

The Early Childhood Laboratory provides a model early childhood program, a site for research and observation, and an educational experience for Child Development students at the Center for Child and Family Studies.
A CA&ES student holding a baby goat outside the goat barn.

Goat Teaching and Research Facility

The Goat Teaching and Research Facility operates under the daily management of a herd manager who is assisted by part-time student employees (including two barn residents) and facility interns.
UC Davis CORE greenhouses at sunset with the campus water tower in the background.

Greenhouses

CA&ES manages 162 greenhouses and related facilities that offer a total of 155,000 sq. ft. for research and teaching on the UC Davis campus.
Young horses in their spaces at the UC Davis Horse Barn.

Horse Barn

The Horse Barn has been a mainstay of UC Davis since its foundation in the early 1910s. The barn's program features a teaching research, and breeding herd of about 40 horses at the UC Davis animal science horse barn. 
Students sitting at computer desks using GIS software.

Informatics Computer Labs

The computers labs provide a modern teaching environment for industry-standard software in agricultural and environmental sciences.
The outside of a modern building on the UC Davis campus.

Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building

In May 2013, the Department of Viticulture and Enology opened the 8,500 square-foot Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building. When fully equipped, it will enable the winery to become the first self-sustainable, zero-carbon teaching and research facility in the world. 
A person in a hat uses a side of meat to teach the students behind him about butchery.

Meat Laboratory

The Meat Lab is part of the Department of Animal Science and is used for teaching and research activities. It is a 5,000-square-foot facility containing a multi-species kill floor, carcass coolers, processing room, cutting room, analytical lab, classroom, and freezers.
A researcher, wearing goggles and gloves, working in a lab.

Milk Processing Lab

Our Milk Processing Laboratory was designed and built to enable collaborative and multi-disciplinary food science research to bring exciting innovations to the food industry, particularly in the realm of novel methods for the fractionation and recovery of bioactive milk components.
Meirun Zhang, undergraduate museum intern, cleaning and stuffing an owl.

Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology

With over 60,000 specimens the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology is among the top ten collections in California, and the third largest university-managed collection in the state.
rice

Plant Transformation Facility

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Plant Transformation Facility was established to provide cost effective plant transformation and plant cell biology services for the plant research community.
Student holds tarantula at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, photo by: Jael Mackendorf, UC Davis

R.M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

The Bohart Museum of Entomology has the seventh largest insect collection in North America, which is worldwide in coverage. The collection holdings total more than seven million specimens, and focus on terrestrial and fresh water invertebrates.
The view from inside the barn onto the Russell Ranch fields as a tractor passes during Soil Science 100 class at Russell Ranch Farm.

Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility

The Russell Ranch Facility is a unique 300-acre facility near the UC Davis campus dedicated to supporting UC Davis’ research, extension, and teaching missions. 
Two lambs at the UC Davis Sheep Barn.

Sheep Teaching and Research Facilities

The Sheep program is committed to the three missions of the University of California: teaching, research and outreach. The facilities include two large barns, 30 dry lot enclosures and approximately 15 acres of irrigated pasture. 300 head of Suffolk, Rambouillet, Polypay and Crossbreds are maintained.
A student harvesting vegetables at the UC Davis Student Farm.

Student Farm

The Student Farm is a community where students work to create, maintain, and explore sustainable food systems.
A pig inside a corral.

Swine Teaching and Research Center

The swine center contains more than 9,000 square feet of inside, enclosed space that houses a class and meeting room, student apartments, lab, office, break room, storage area, feed and work areas, as well as two farrowing rooms and two nursery rooms. The herd is composed of 60 sows and 13 males.
Two bees pollinate a lavender.

UC Davis Honey Bee Haven

The UC Davis Bee Haven is a unique outdoor museum where visitors can observe and learn about bees and the plants that support them. 
Executive Director a the UC Davis Olive Center, Javier Fernandez-Salvador uses a handheld shaker to harvest olives at Wolfskill Experimental Orchard that will be used to create an Olio Nuovo blend of olive oil that will be availble to the public through the Olive Center.

Wolfskill Experimental Orchards

Since the university acquired the Wolfskill property in 1938 the majority of land has been used for plant breeding and cultivar evaluation projects.