People

• Nick David, RD Offutt Company
• Twain Butler, Noble Research Institute
• Jeremy Singer, J. R Simplot Company
• Patrick O’Neill, Soil Health Services, PBC
• Gerhard Bester, Frito-Lay, Inc.
• Andy Jensen, Northwest Potato Research Consortium
• A.J. Bussan, Wysocki Produce Farm
• John Nordgaard, Black Gold Farms
• Leigh Morrow, McCain Foods Limited
• Ray Hammerschmidt, Michigan State University

• Heath Gimmested, Grower, Washington State
• Greg Harris, RD Offutt Company
• Karl Ritchie, Walther Farms
• Jim Ehrlich, Colorado Potato Administrative Committee
• Chris Voigt, Washington State Potato Commission
• Patrick Kole, Idaho Potato Commission
• Mike Wenkel, Michigan Potato Industry Commission
• Bret Nedrow, J. R. Simplot Company
• Jolyn Rasmuseen, J. R. Simplot Company
• Troy Grimes, Lamb Weston
• Chandler Dolezal, Lamb Weston

Carl Rosen, Department Head and Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota

Objective 1. Enhance potato health, productivity, and quality via management-based optimization of soil microbiomes and physicochemical characteristics. Linda Kinkel, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota

Objective 2. Determine on-farm soil health-based indicators associated with potato crop health, yield and quality. Carl Rosen, Department Head and Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota

Objective 3. Identify the incentives, impediments, and determinants of adopting practices and technologies that encourage practices to improve soil health in potato production. Christopher McIntosh, Department Head and Professor, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology University of Idaho

Objective 4. Facilitate adoption of soil health best management practice systems by the potato industry. Matthew Ruark, Associate Professor, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Jane Stewart, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Bioagricultural Science & Pest Management, Colorado State University
• Kurt Steinke, Associate Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University
• Lisa Tiemann, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University
• Kate Binzen Fuller, Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist, Extension Economics, Montana State University
• Julie Pasche, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University
• Andy Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science, North Dakota State University
• Kenneth Frost, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology & Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University
• Amber Moore, Assistant Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University
• Brenda K. Schroeder, Associate Research Professor, Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, University of Idaho
• Mike Thornton, Parma Chair and Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, Southwest Idaho Research & Extension Center, University of Idaho
• Alex Maas, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho
• Jay Hao, Associate Professor, School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine
• Richard Lankau, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Ann MacGuidwin, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Cynthia Gleason, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University

• Robert Larkin, Research Plant Pathologist, USDA-ARS, New England Plant, Soil, and Water Lab, University of Maine
• Robert Heinse, Associate Professor & Interim Director of Water Resources, University of Idaho
• Ashlee Westerhold, Extension Area Economist, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho
• Amanda Gevens, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin - Madison