About This Department

The North Willamette Research and Extension Center (NWREC) is located within the Willamette Valley and features world-class horticulture and crop sciences field research. The 160-acre research and Extension center is home to several faculty and program specialists and serves farmers in the north Willamette Valley area. The station is about 20 miles south of Portland and serves the seven surrounding counties focusing on high-value crops. Approximately 40% of Oregon’s farmgate value is produced within 50 miles of NWREC.

The center’s research and education programming is focused on the region’s most important crop systems: nurseries and greenhouses, fresh vegetables and specialty seed crops, berries and small fruit, Christmas trees, orchard crops, and field crops associated with large and small farms. In addition, NWREC is the location for the state’s only IR-4 Pesticide Registration program, which works with many of the state’s agricultural crops throughout Oregon.