Russ Garetson

Professional Summary

Program: Small grains and oilseeds

Supervising professor: Extension – Larry Redmon Academic – Amir Ibrahim

Extension duties:
I support the small grains and oilseed producers in Texas through collaboration with the Wheat Uniform Variety Trial (UVT), Uniform Forage Trial (UFT), and county agents, and by researching better management practices. We work with wheat, and alternative crops such as canola and barley. I am working to bring UAV technology to Extension as a platform to assist in the management of small grains acreage in Texas. Additionally, using UAVs for high-throughput phenotyping in wheat.