Ag Breakfast 2022

Join us for the 2022 Ag Breakfast featuring Iowa State University Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Dan Robison!

Dan Robison came to Iowa State from West Virginia University, where he served
2012-2019 as the dean of the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and
Design. During his tenure, the Davis College achieved record student enrollment
and retention while adding several new teaching and research facilities, and
programmatic initiatives. Prior to that position, Robison served on the faculty at
North Carolina State University for 16 years, where he directed the Hardwood
Research Cooperative working with forest products industries and agencies
across the South. He completed his tenure at NC State as associate dean of
research in the College of Natural Resources, with responsibilities that also
included service, international and strategic programming. His primary teaching
responsibilities were courses in forestry and natural resources, and forest science.
Robison, a forester and forest entomologist by discipline, has published and
presented, and trained graduate students in the areas of forest entomology and
pest management, silviculture of natural hardwoods, biomass-bioenergy
plantation systems, agroforestry and clonal forestry. His international experience
includes spending two years in West Africa as a consultant and volunteer for the
West Africa Rice Development Association, African Development Bank and U.S.
Peace Corps and Agency for International Development. He also has done field
work in countries that include Canada, Myanmar, Israel and South Africa.
Robison earned a doctorate in entomology from the University of Wisconsin at
Madison in 1993. He earned a master’s degree in silviculture and forest
influences in 1986 and a bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1982, both from the State
University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry-
Syracuse. He was a Fellow of the American Council on Education 2007-2008.

The emcee for the 2022 Ag Breakfast is Mark Dorenkamp, and the invocation will be provided by Pastor Dan Gerriets of Trinity Lutheran Church. Fox Auction Company will provide the door prize.

Ag Breakfast is an annual event to bring farm and business together for an early morning breakfast served by Chamber Volunteers.