Agriculture Innovation Initiative
An investment to leverage our core areas of strength in new and exciting ways for food, agriculture and beyond — bringing together the unparalleled K-State student experience, teaching, discovery and engagement to spark groundbreaking interdisciplinary ideation and generate positive economic, community and societal impacts.
Campaign Progress
$210,000,000 Goal
7718889%
$187617471*
*State, philanthropic, and university total funds.
What is an Interdisciplinary Focus?
An interdisciplinary focus involves crossing boundaries between traditional academic areas like agronomic breeding, biological ag engineering and statistics to address complex issues like how to use digital ag tools to make informed, data-driven decisions. These issues will take multiple tools and skills to understand and solve. See how the Ag Innovation Initiative is bringing Interdisciplinary Focus to life.
About our Facilities
Our state-of-the-art facilities will have engaging research and workspaces to promote creativity and innovation by encouraging students, faculty and partners to explore novel ways of approaching problems. This approach trains the future workforce in collaborative thinking with other disciplines and strengthens public-private partnership opportunities.
This center will bring research teams together from all around campus, working hand-in-hand with industry to make new discoveries in areas such as crop production or soil health and develop new solutions for issues like water management that are resilient, efficient, profitable and sustainable for generations to come.
This project includes a new multispecies event center with a competition arena to support teaching and youth and extension efforts in equine and livestock sciences.
The global agriculture and food sectors are increasingly complex, and investments in this new center strategically connect K-State’s world-renowned animal science and food science programs with our unique grains science programs to address both opportunities and challenges.
The future is bright for top talent in Animal Sciences and Industry students, faculty, researchers and industry partners. The Ag Innovation Initiative helps connect the top talent already in the College of Agriculture to new top tier facilities including proposed updates to Weber and Call Hall.
In the Know
2024 Ag Innovation Initiative Year in Review
December 18, 2024
Watch a video recapping the progress made in 2024 for the initiative and read about the milestones accomplished this year.
Bilbrey Family Event Center Beam Signing
October 28, 2024
The Bilbrey Family Event Center Beam Signing was held on Wednesday, November 20. This construction milestone was celebrated at the Stanley Stout Center.
Agriculture Innovation Initiative: Focus on the Department of Agronomy
July 25, 2024
The Agriculture Innovation Initiative includes exciting new facilities and upgrades for students, faculty, and industry partners in the agronomy department.
K-State breaks ground on Global Center for Grain and Food Innovation
May 17, 2024
The College of Agriculture's Global Center for Grain and Food Innovation groundbreaking was held on Friday, May17 on the east lawn of Weber Hall on campus.
ADM donates $1 million to agricultural innovation at Kansas State University
May 8, 2024
A global leader in human and animal nutrition commits to helping advance K-State’s Agriculture Innovation Initiative. The Kansas State University Foundation today announced that ADM has pledged $1 million.
Agriculture Innovation Initiative: Focus on the Grain Science and Industry Department
April 25, 2024
The Agriculture Innovation Initiative includes exciting new facilities and upgrades for students, faculty, and industry partners in the grain science and industry department.
Invitation to invest
Now is the time to invest — Kansas State University has an inspiring opportunity. To help the world’s ability to feed two billion more people by 2050. To contribute to a Kansas economy that thrives. To optimize agriculture for the highest levels of efficiency and yield. The sky’s the limit.