Campus Agricultural Center (CAC) is based on 180 acres located about 3 miles north of the University's main campus. Facilties include three greenhouse complexes (including the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center), a meat sciences complex, an equine teaching/research facility, a new animal physiology research complex, facilities for beef cattle research, a covered show arena, the Karsten Turfgrass Research Facility, an entomological research laboratory, the Pima County Cooperative Extension center, a publications distribution center for the College, four residences for farm supervisory personnel, maintenance/office/conference facilities, and support buildings for many of the academic departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Structural space maintained at CAC totals over 270,000 square feet.

CAC is used extensively by researchers, teachers, students, extension personnel & clientele, neighbors, and local community organizations. Most of the facilities management personnel for the Tucson Area Agricultural Centers are based at CAC, and several hundred other professional and volunteer workers regularly use the facilities at the Campus Agricultural Center for their educational and research activities.

The main strength of this Center is its proximity to the hub of University activity and to a very large population of service clients. This has particular significance because of recent shifts in the College toward providing services for campus-based biotechnological reasearch and toward serving more urban clients.