What Producers Are Saying About Crops and Climate

Roger W. Elmore is an Extension Corn Agronomist and Professor of Agronomy at the Iowa State University.  Roger was born and raised on a grain & livestock farm in north-central Illinois near Princeton.  Following his undergraduate degree from Illinois State University, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia working with a crop diversification program in paddy rice-based cropping systems. His graduate work at the University of Illinois focused on corn, soybean and grain sorghum intercropping systems.  Part of this research was in Puerto Rico.  After receiving his PhD he worked 24 years for the University of Nebraska with cultural practices for irrigated corn and soybean systems with some work with winter wheat and grain sorghum.  In the early 1990’s Roger and his family spent nearly a year in Argentina working with and learning from Argentine agronomists in the Venado Tuerto area of Santa Fe.  Consulting trips have since taken him to China, Ghana, and most recently to Haiti.  In 2005 he joined the Agronomy faculty at Iowa State University where he concentrates on development of practical management information for corn growers.

Emerson D. Nafziger is Professor of Crop Production and Extension Agronomist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has conducted applied research and educational programs in production of corn, soybean, and other crops in Illinois since 1982. Dr. Nafziger’s expertise is in crop response to abiotic stress and to factors including crop rotation, tillage, planting technology, and pest and nutrient management. He has authored or co-authored 30 refereed publications, several book chapters, and the authoritative book Modern Corn and Soybean Production. Dr. Nafziger served as a volunteer for four years in an agricultural research and development program in Bangladesh and continues to consult on soybean introduction, management and development in South Asia. He is active in efforts to use large databases to formulate approaches to inputs such as seed and nitrogen fertilizer and is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America.

DANNY H. ROGERS, P.E., PhD. :Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer in Irrigation; Kansas State University Research and Extension; Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Dr. Danny Rogers is a Kansas native, who was raised on a northeast Kansas farm, later attending Kansas State University for his BS and MS degrees. His PhD is from Oklahoma State University. Dan is a licensed professional engineer and currently a professor and extension engineer for K-State Research and Extension in the department of Bio and Ag Engineering. His primary program emphasis is irrigation water resources management. An example of his outreach program is the Mobile Irrigation Lab project, which has both a development and training component for irrigation computer decision support software, and field evaluation of center pivots. The KanSched Irrigation Scheduling Program he will be presenting today was developed as part of the MIL project.