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UW-Madison News Release--Cassman lecture

AGRONOMIST'S LECTURE TO EXPLORE BALANCING AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT

MADISON - An internationally known agronomist who has devoted his career to ensuring adequate food supplies for all while enhancing environmental quality worldwide will give a free public lecture at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ken Cassman, professor of agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will speak on "Agricultural Production and Long-Term Sustainability of Soil and Water Resources" in 1100 Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.

Cassman's research has taken him around the globe, from sprawling rice fields in the Amazon Basin in Brazil to the croplands of Egypt's Nile Valley to irrigated cotton and wheat fields in California. Before moving to Nebraska in 1996, he was a professor of agronomy and range science at the University of California-Davis and, later, head of agronomy, plant physiology, and agroecology at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.

A fellow in the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Cassman received the 2004 International Crop Nutrition Award for helping farmers use fertilizers more efficiently, with significant environmental benefits.

His presentation is the second of this year's Roy F. Weston Global Distinguished Sustainability Lectures at UW-Madison. Weston, an alumnus of the university, founded Weston Solutions, Inc., an international environmental and redevelopment firm.

The Weston lecture series is sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the Global Environmental Studies Research Circle.

For more information about the series, visit http://www.sage.wisc.edu/pages/news.html or contact the series coordinator, Claus Moberg, ccmoberg@students.wisc.edu.
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- Tom Sinclair, (608) 263-5599



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