Full Name
Carrie Wohleb
Job Title
Professor / Potato, Vegetable & Seed Crops Extension Specialist
Company
Washington State University
Speaker Bio
Carrie H. Wohleb is a Professor and Potato, Vegetable and Seed Crops Specialist with Washington State University Extension in Moses Lake. Her programs are aimed at improving the profitability, productivity, and sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the Columbia Basin region of Washington State. Carrie’s main areas of interest are: (1) investigating and diagnosing problems in the field, (2) pest monitoring and integrated pest management, and (3) developing decision support tools and educational materials for potato, vegetable, and seed producers. She publishes a weekly e-newsletter “WSU Potato Alerts” during the growing season and writes a quarterly “Potato Pointers” column for the American Vegetable Grower magazine. Carrie earned a B.S. degree in botany from the University of Washington, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in horticulture (potato physiology and agronomy) from Washington State University. She worked as an agronomist on a potato farm for 8 years before taking her current position at Washington State University in 2008.
Carrie Wohleb