Elsberry Plant Materials Center

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Updated 09/10/2008

Elsberry, Missouri

Established 1934

For almost 70 years, the Elsberry Plant Materials Center has selected plants and developed new planting technologies for areas of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. The Center has released over 60 improved conservation plants including varieties of sideoats grama, big bluestem, prairie coreopsis, roughleaf dogwood, pale purple coneflower, thickspike gayfeather, tall dropseed and stiff goldenrod, and has developed new technologies for hay and pasture management, native plant establishment, windbreaks and wildlife habitat.

Special Features

New Publications

If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please contact Leslie Glass at 701-250-4330.

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2007 was Eleventh Driest Year on Record at the USDA NRCS Plant Materials Center (PMC) in Elsberry (PDF; 30 KB)

Notice of Release of Northern Missouri Germplasm Sideoats Grama (PDF; 19KB)

Cuivre River Germplasm Virginia Wildrye (PDF; 208KB)

Alexander Germplasm Showy Tick Trefoil (PDF; 211 KB)

Cave In Rock Switchgrass (PDF; 191 KB)

Sideoats Grama Plant Fact Sheet (PDF; 44 KB)

Sideoats Graam Plant Guide (PDF; 92 KB)

2007 Annual Technical Report (PDF; 1.46 MB) Elsberry Plant Materials Center, Elsberry, MO. Mar 2008

Plants For Conservation - Vol. 9 Issue 1 (PDF; 411 KB) Spring Newsletter, Elsberry Plant Materials Center, Mar 2008

Year 2007 Progress Report of Activities. (PDF; 699 KB) Bruckerhoff, S. B., Cordsiemon, R. L. 2008. Elsberry PMC, Elsberry, MO. 2/20/2008. 4p. (ID# 7728)

Growers / Vendors of Elsberry PMC, Released Varieties and Ecotypes in Production (PDF; 155 KB) USDA-NRCS Elsberry Plant Materials Center, Elsberry, MO. Feb 2008

2008 Foundation Seed Prices (PDF; 24 KB)

Contact

2803 N. Highway 79
Elsberry, MO 63343

Telephone: 573.898.2012
FAX: 573.898.5019
Email: steve.bruckerhoff@mo.usda.gov