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What Paul brings to the
table...
As New Farm Research and Training Manager at
The Rodale Institute, Dr. Paul Hepperly has been
a regular contributor to NewFarm.org for some
time, providing research updates, op-ed pieces,
and white papers on topics like carbon sequestration
in organic farming systems.
None of those venues do full justice to the range
of Paul's experience, however. Paul grew up on
a family farm in Illinois and holds a Ph.D. in
plant pathology, an M.S. in agronomy and a B.S.
in psychology from the University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana. He has worked for the USDA
Agricultural Research Service, in academia, and
for a number of private seed companies, including
Asgrow, Pioneer, and DeKalb. He has overseen research
in Hawaii, Iowa, Puerto Rico, and Chile, and investigated
such diverse crops as soybeans, corn, sorghum,
sunflowers, ginger, and papaya. He has witnessed
the move toward biotech among the traditional
plant breeding community and the move toward organics
among new wave of upcoming young farmers. Before
coming to the Rodale Institute Paul worked with
hill farmers in India to help them overcome problems
with ginger root rot in collaboration with Winrock
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