David Suchoff

Bio

David Suchoff’s research and extension program focuses on new and emerging crops and organic production systems. Current research and extension activities center on hemp, organic sunflowers, and sesame agronomics. David is also the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s platform director for extension outreach and engagement, as well as the director of the FFAR Hemp Research Consortium, a public-private partnership between NC State, Cornell University, the University of Kentucky and 10 industry members from across the hemp landscape.

Publications

• Building a resilient organic hemp industry: Survey and focus groups assess research, extension, and education needs , Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment (2025)
• Characterization and Interploid Cross-compatibility of Hexaploid Cannabis sativa L. and Production of Pentaploids , HortScience (2025)
• Endomycorrhizal inoculant evaluation on soybean in North Carolina under varying potassium levels , Agronomy Journal (2025)
• Fiber hemp research and extension in North Carolina: Progress, Challenges, and Future Endeavors , European Industrial Hemp Association Conference (2025)
• Integrating UAV-based high-throughput phenotyping with genomic data to characterize high-cannabinoid hemp , PAG 32 (2025)
• Polyhalite as an alternative potassium fertilizer for sweetpotatoes , Agronomy Journal (2025)
• Screening sesame (Sesamum indicum) for resistance to multiple root-knot nematode species (Meloidogyne spp.) , Journal of Nematology (2025)
• Sesame variety trial results , (2025)
• Updates on the FFAR Hemp Research Consortium , Hatch S-1084 Multistate Annual Meeting (2025)
• Breeding and multistate characterization of hemp fiber cultivars , ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings (2024)