Tag agriculture

Alex Crockford

Admin Program Manager/Department of Plant Pathology

Expert on seed potato production from tissue culture through commercial planting and provide leadership to certification program with the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jo Handelsman

Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Adena Rissman

Professor of the human dimensions of ecosystem management, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

Expert on the social and policy aspects of natural resources management and conservation, including land protection, forestry, wildlife habitat, water quality

Matthew Ginder-Vogel

Assistant Professor, Environmental Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Expert on chemistry of metals and nutrients in environmental systems, drinking water, and waste disposal.

Todd Newman

Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication

Expert on the intersection between science and society

Cara Westmark

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Expert on Alzheimer's disease, fragile X syndrome and the study of dietary interventions in preclinical models

Adel Talaat

Professor of Microbiology; Department of Pathobiological Sciences

Infectious diseases expert with focus on tuberculosis in humans, bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle. Expert in food animal vaccines.

Ming-Yi Chou

Associate scientist

Irwin Goldman

Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on public plant breeding, open source seeds, and the breeding of carrots, onions and beets

Heather White

Associate Professor, Dairy Science; Faculty Director, UW Dairy Innovation Hub

Understanding nutrient partitioning to improve feed efficiency and metabolic health in dairy cows

Zhou Zhang

Associate Professor, Biological Systems Engineering

Expert on machine learning, remote sensing, multi-sensor data fusion, drone data collection and analysis, digital agriculture

Andrew W. Stevens

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert on applied agricultural and food policy with interests ranging from US agricultural production to consumer food demand and food security

Brian McInnes

Civil Society and Community Studies

Expert on P-12 Indigenous Education policy and practice, world language immersion education, Indigenous environmental stewardship, and Ojibwe/Potawatomi languages and culture.

Michelle Miller

Associate Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems

Expert on regional food systems and food supply chains, including food transportation, labor and governance.

Nan Li

Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Communication

Expert on visual communications of science, environment and agriculture; public opinion; audience psychology

Jennifer Van Os

Assistant Professor, Animal & Dairy Science; Extension Specialist, Animal Welfare

Understanding and improving the welfare (quality of life) of dairy cows and calves

Qunying Huang

Professor, Geography; Director, Spatial Computing and Data Mining

Expert on wildfires, floods, Remote Sensing, AI/ML

Victor Cabrera

Professor and Extension Specialist in Dairy Management; Animal and Dairy Science

Development of decision support tools for improving dairy farm management. Leading the Dairy Brain project integrating live farm data pipelines for improved decision-making.

Jessica Hite

Assistant Professor, Pathobiological Sciences

Hite's research uses interdisciplinary approaches to gain new insight into how pathogens evolve in response to drugs and immune defense strategies.

John Shutske

Professor Biological Systems Engineering and Director of UW Center for Agricultural Safety & Health

I am an agricultural safety and health specialist, focusing on issues of injury prevention; worker health; mental health; stress management; and risk assessment.

Jeffrey Hadachek

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert on agricultural water issues and conservation practices

Alexa Kulwiec

Associate Professor, Department of Labor Education; Adjunct Labor Law Professor, UW Law School

Expert on federal and state labor law, labor/management relations, practice before National Labor Relations Board, Collective Bargaining

Joao Dorea

Assistant Professor/Animal and Dairy Sciences

Expert on Digital Agriculture; Sensing Technologies for Animal Monitoring; Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Farm Management

Adela Oliva Chavez

Assistant professor, Department of Entomology

Tick-borne diseases, obligate intracellular bacteria, tick-pathogen interactions, host-pathogen interactions, extracellular vesicles, tick feeding, pathogen transmission, vaccine development, tick biology, Anaplasmosis

Gina Mode

Researcher, Center for Dairy Research

Passionate about butter and cheese making, grading, judging, and history – particularly in Wisconsin.

Jingyi Huang

Assistant Professor

Expert on remote sensing; proximal soil sensing; digital soil mapping; soil physics; soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction;

Sara Gragg

Associate Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences; Associate Director, Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery

Food microbiologist specializing in food safety, with an emphasis on the meat and poultry industries.

Charles (Chuck) Nicholson

Associate Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences and Agricultural and Applied Economics

Extensive experience in the economics analysis of US and global dairy markets, policy and supply chains, controlled-environment agriculture and global food security issues.

Harkirat Kaur

Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences

Corn production agronomist, leading corn agronomy research and extension at UW-Madison, focusing on economical and sustainable corn production.

Dominic Parker

Anderson-Bascom Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert on economics of environmental, energy, and natural resource policy; expert on the economies of Indigenous communities; expert on natural resource governance and economic development

Gregg Sanford

Assistant Professor, Soil Carbon & Cropping System Ecology; Director, Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial

Expert on Cropping System Ecology, Soil Organic Carbon and related Soil Health metrics, Ecological Intensification, Organic Farming, Rotational Grazing

Margaret Zimmer

Associate Professor, Soil and Environmental Sciences

Expertise in surface water quality and quantity, non-perennial streams, surface water-groundwater interactions, and soil water

Steven Hall

Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences

Expert on agriculture and the environment

Leonard Polzin

Dairy Markets and Policy Outreach Specialist, UW-Madison Division of Extention

Agricultural economist specializing in dairy markets, policy analysis, risk management, and farm financial management.

Xia Zhu-Barker

Assistant Professor, Soil and Environmental Sciences

Soil health, compost, greenhouse gas emissions, nitrate leaching, agricultural sustainability, nutrient and manure management, NOx and NH3 emissions, and use of isotopic tracers

Loka Ashwood

Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology

Loka uses interdisciplinary collaborations to expose the causes and dire implications of rural discontent while equipping rural communities with resources to build critical agency.