Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact,natural,economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Professionals of the agricultural science are called agricultural scientists or agriculturists.
Imperata cylindrica is a species of perennial rhizomatous grass native to tropical and subtropical Asia,Micronesia,Melanesia,Australia,Africa,and Southern Europe. It has also been introduced to Latin America,the Caribbean,and the Southeastern United States. It is a highly flammable pyrophyte,and can spread rapidly by colonizing disturbed areas and encouraging more frequent wildfires.
Pedro Sanchez is the director of the Agriculture &Food Security Center,senior research scholar,and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sanchez was director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquartered in Nairobi,Kenya from 1991-2001,and served as co-chair of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. He is also professor emeritus of soil science and forestry at North Carolina State University,and was a visiting professor at the University of California,Berkeley.
The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal,regional,state,and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate,inventory,document,classify,and interpret soils and to disseminate,publish,and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust territories. The activities of the NCSS are carried out on national,regional,and state levels.
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is a teaching,research and Extension scientific organization focused on agriculture and natural resources. It is a partnership of federal,state,and county governments that includes an Extension office in each of Florida's 67 counties,12 off-campus research and education centers,five demonstration units,the University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences,three 4-H camps,portions of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine,the Florida Sea Grant program,the Emerging Pathogens Institute,the UF Water Institute and the UF Genetics Institute.
E. Travis York,Jr. was an American agronomist,professor,university administrator,agricultural extension administrator,and U.S. presidential adviser. York was a native of Alabama,and earned his bachelor's,master's and doctorate degrees in agricultural sciences. He served as the director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service,the administrator of the federal Extension Service,the interim president of the University of Florida,and the chancellor of the State University System of Florida.
Joseph C. Joyce,executive associate vice president for agriculture and natural resources at the University of Florida is a Jacksonville,Florida native. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1982.
The University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS),founded in 1964,is a college of the University of Florida.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is a U.S. federal government body whose creation was mandated in the Food,Conservation,and Energy Act of 2008. Its purpose is to consolidate all federally funded agricultural research,and it is subordinate to the Department of Agriculture. It replaced the Cooperative State Research,Education,and Extension Service in 2009. Dionne Toombs served as the Acting Director from April 11,2022 to May 8,2023. Dionne Toombs is the current Associate Director for Programs. Manjit Misra was appointed Director on April 24,2023 and began his new role on May 8,2023.
Abdul Rashid,is a Pakistani agricultural scientist,who has served as a Member (Bio-sciences) of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 2008 to 2011 and Director General of Pakistan's National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) from 2006 to 2008. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa,Hawaii,in the United States.
The University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is the agricultural and environmental sciences college of the University of Maryland and operates the Maryland Sea Grant College in cooperation with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
William Albert Albrecht chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri,was the foremost authority on the relation of soil fertility to human health and earned four degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As emeritus professor of soils at the University of Missouri,he saw a direct link between soil quality,food quality and human health. He drew direct connections between poor quality forage crops,and ill health in livestock and from this developed a formula for ideal ratios of cations in the soil,the Base Cation Saturation Ratio. While he did not discover cation exchange in the soil as is sometimes supposed,he may have been the first to associate it with colloidal clay particles. He served as 1939 President of the Soil Science Society of America.
Twenty years before the phrase 'environmental concern' crept into the national consciousness,he was lecturing from coast to coast on the broad topic of agricultural ecology.
" The soil is the ‘creative material’of most of the basic needs of life. Creation starts with a handful of dust.”Dr. William A. Abrecht.
Jimmy G. Cheek is Chancellor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Higher Education in Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at The University of Tennessee,Knoxville (UTK) and Former Director of the Postsecondary Education Research Center. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. As the state's flagship research campus,UT Knoxville is currently ranked as a Top 50 public institution.
Rattan Lal is a soil scientist. His work focuses on regenerative agriculture through which soil can help resolve global issues such as climate change,food security and water quality. He is considered a pioneer in soil-centric agricultural management to improve global food security and develop climate-resilient agriculture.
Donald L. Sparks is an American soil scientist,currently Unidel S. Hallock duPont Chair of Soil and Environmental Chemistry,Francis Alison Professor,Director,Delaware Environmental Institute,University of Delaware,and Hagler Fellow in the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.
Walter A. Hill is an American scientist who is Professor and Dean of the College of Agriculture,Environment and Nutrition Sciences at Tuskegee University. In 2016 he was inducted into the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hall of Fame.
Bluggoe,Orinoco,Musa'Orinoco',or burro is a cultivar of banana.
Delia Grace is an epidemiologist and a veterinarian. Grace joined the University of Greenwich in May 2020 as Professor of Food Safety Systems at the Natural Resources Institute. She is also Joint Appointed Scientist,Animal and Human Health Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),Nairobi,Kenya.
