Crop and Soil Science

Extension Small Farms Program

• Hay, forage, and cereal production.
• Fertility and irrigation management.
• Weed control in organic forage systems.

Potato Variety Development and Other Row Crops

• Cultural Management
• Pest and Disease Control
• Seed Production
• Irrigation Efficiencies

Physical mechanisms that control water motion in soil, porous media, and fractured porous media.

Seed Science and Technology

Seed quality evaluation in relation to the physiology of seed germination, vigor, dormancy, storability, post-harvest technologies, and the relationship to field performance. Accepts only self-funded graduate students.

Small Farms, Specialty Crops (Small Fruits & Berries and Tree Fruit - Olives), Soil and Plant Fertility and Nutrition, Organic Production. 

Focus areas: Farm and food system policy, local and regional food supply chains, community food system development.

Crop and soil science courses, including:  irrigation principles and practices, plant pathology, entomology, weed management, plant genetics, seed, cereal, oil, fiber, potato and global food production.

USDA-ARS

Online Course Development and Delivery, facilitating professors building courses and students taking online offerings.

• Field crops extension/research in the South Willamette Valley
• Integrated pest management
• Biological control

Commercial agriculture Extension in Jackson and Josephine counties

The processes at the interface between organic matter and mineral surfaces, including mineral surface properties, organic matter properties, bonding mechanisms, adsorption processes, mineral-microbial interactions, and organic matter turnover dynamics.

Projects:

Nutrient cycling in natural and human-disturbed ecosystems, including the attenuation of increased nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems by soils and vegetation, detrital controls on soil organic matter formation

• Statistics and GIS-based soil mapping
• Photogrammetry and 3D modeling of soils
• Online teaching pedagogy
• Science communication

Pedology

Agricultural watershed monitoring & alternative dryland crops

I teach large-enrollment non-major courses in Soil Science and Environmental Science for the Sustainability Double-Degree program and the Crop and Soil Science Department at Oregon State University, both on the Corvallis campus and via OSU E-campus.

Students in my classes are often busy juggling home, children, work, and school. I strive for inclusiveness and accommodation. My focus is on helping students find ways to complete their class work, amidst all the turmoil and stressors that unfold daily.

• Phytophthora diseases of woody plants
• Management of Phytophthora diseases in horticultural nurseries and native plant nurseries
• Soil solarization for management of soilborne plant pathogens and weeds

Geochemical, hydrologic, and biogeochemical processes in the critical zone
Global carbon cycle
Ecosystem nutrient sources and cycling
Radiogenic and metal isotope tracers

Website

Oilseed and Fiber Crops

Ron's Webpage: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reuterr/

• Integrated Pest Management
• Insects-Plant Interactions
• Biological Control
• Insect Ecology-Insect Movement
• Chemical Control

Fundamental and applied research of cereal grain components, and wheat- and barley-based foods (focused on wheat, food barley, noodles, and artisan breads).

Program Goals

• Small grain production
• Legume intercropping for soil nitrogen and soil and water quality improvement.

We are screening various legume crops for suitability in intercropping with grain.

Extension Agronomist with field crop responsibilities in Union, Baker, and Wallowa Co.

Agricultural Literacy

Wheat Breeding and Genetics