"...will provide an innovative infrastructure through which existing and new experiential inter-disciplinary studies in production agriculture, the environment and conservation techniques can take place...is designed to create a model for quality teaching across various disciplines, facilitate and increase external grant and contract activities, increase public/private partnerships, increase outreach efforts, collaborate with secondary institutions, expand livestock, crops, equipment, natural resource areas and other facilities to enhance experiential learning and have a major impact on the economy of the State of Tennessee." - TN Higher Education Commision