{"id":1839,"date":"2017-03-19T21:28:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T01:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-dev-site\/people\/kledmist\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:16:15","slug":"kledmist","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/people\/kledmist\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Edmisten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'UniversLight',serif;color: #333333\">Dr. Edmisten is a Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences and serves as the Extension Cotton Specialist for the NCSU Crop Science &amp; Soil Sciences Department.\u00a0 Keith received his BS from NCSU in Agronomy, MS from NCSU in Crop Science and PhD from Virginia Tech in Crop Physiology in 1987. He served on the faculty at Mississippi State University and Auburn University prior to joining the Crop Science faculty here at NCSU in 1992. He conducts applied cotton agronomic research and cotton germplasm evaluation to include evaluation of new events, traits and elite varieties. He \u00a0teaches CS224 Seeds, Biotechnology and Society, CS 216 Southern Row Crop Production, CS418\/528 Intro to Regulatory Science in Agriculture and CS428\/528 Advanced Regulatory Science in Agriculture. He also advises the Plant and Soil Science biotechnology concentration undergraduate students. He was selected as the Extension Cotton Specialist of the year in 1997 and the Cotton Physiologist of the year in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'UniversLight',serif;color: #333333\">The Crop &amp; Soil Sciences cotton extension &amp; applied research program is designed to provide training and support to county faculty, private consultants and cotton producers. The program focuses on using plant monitoring techniques to manage cotton inputs in a way that maximizes the economic value of inputs while minimizing environmental impacts. The program relies on the cooperation of the experiment station, county faculty, industry and cotton producers. Although a majority of the applied research is conducted on experiment stations, on-farm tests provide valuable information and help to train county faculty. The Crop Science cotton extension program cooperates on several applied research projects with faculty within the department and with faculty from Entomology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science and Agriculture Economics. We also evaluate genetically engineered germplasm and varieties and to help producers integrate\u00a0varieties and traits into their production systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'UniversLight',serif;color: #333333\">Results of these tests and other production recommendations are made available to county faculty, consultants and growers utilizing various methods including: a cotton information book, field days, growers meetings, newsletters sent electronically and placed on the internet, agent, industry and consultant training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cotton.ces.ncsu.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'UniversLight',serif;color: #cc0000\">NC Cotton Information Portal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agbiotech.ces.ncsu.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'UniversLight',serif;color: #cc0000\">NC Agbiotech Portal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":39290,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[522,529],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1839","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-faculty","group-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40361,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1839\/revisions\/40361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/crop-and-soil-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}