Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Maryland

The US Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is a sprawling, 7,000 acre research farm with fields, woodlands, and numerous laboratory complexes. BARC claims to be the largest and most diversified agricultural research complex in the world, conducting research into large-scale farming practices including beef, pig, and poultry raising, pesticides, nutrition, and other programs of interest to the American agricultural industry. Administration and labs are located on the west part of the property, while most of the fieldwork takes place east of the main campus and the town of Beltsville.