Meisner, Craig

Adjunct Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Basic research in root physiology
  • Grower-related problems
  • Reducing the turnaround time with either zero or minimum tillage
  • Basic research is important that can be later applied with impact to growers’ fields and it can be proposed, funded, and implemented JUST as that—a seamless flow from basic to applied research implemented for grower adoption and livelihood impact, assuming it addresses real growers’ needs

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

external academic affiliation

background

educational background

  • BS (Agronomy), North Carolina State Universit, 1976
  • MS (Agriculture), North Carolina State University, 1979
  • PhD (Agronomy/Crop Physiology), University of Georgia, 1990

professional background

  • CIMMYT wheat agronomist/scientist for 12 years in Bangladesh and beginning in 2002, Pakistan
  • Co-facilitator, Rice-Wheat Consortium, 2002-present
  • Site Coordinator, Cornell University's rice-wheat work with the USAID Soil Mgmt
  • Natural Resources Group,CIMMYT with more emphasis on sustainability issues, present