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Marvin Klemme Range Research Station
Contact
Charles Worthington
Station Superintendent
RR 1
Bessie, Oklahoma 73622
Phone: 580-337-6613
email: cworthi@okstate.edu
Station Information
One thousand acres together with associated facilities were donated by Marvin Klemme on November 10, 1988 to the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Oklahoma State University to further agricultural research and education and thus promote agriculture to the benefit of western Oklahoma and society.
Size and Location: The station consists of 1,560 acres and is located 10 miles south and 5 miles west of Clinton or 5 miles west and 1.5 miles north of U.S. Highway 183, at Bessie, Oklahoma. The station is located slightly south of the north/south midpoint of the Rolling Red Plains Resource Area. The Rolling Red Plains extends from south of the Red River to north of the Oklahoma/Kansas border consisting of approximately 9.4 million acres, which occupies a significant portion of Western Oklahoma excluding the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Programs: Stocker cattle, patch burning, cow-calf, pasture and forage improvement, livestock management research, and education programs. The primary commodities located in the Rolling Red Plains Area are wheat, range, and cattle. Other important commodities include grain sorghum, alfalfa, and cotton.
Site: This is a rolling upland prairie site consisting of a Cordell soil series. The site is predominately a shallow, somewhat excessively drained, moderately permeable soil that weathered form a hard siltstone under a cover of mid and short grasses. These soils are on hilltops, hillsides, and in swales and canyons on uplands with slopes from 1-15%. The average annual precipitation is 30.70 inches with an average summer high temperature of 93.6° and average winter low temperature of 26.1°.
