Tag agriculture
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.