Robert E. Dunker

Areas of Expertise

• Soil management practices
• Reclamation of disturbed soils
• Crop production and farm management practices

Current Research Projects

• Strip till, tillage, N placement, and starter fertilizer effects on corn growth and yield
• Management of historic Morrow Plots
• Test potential field contamination of the Round-Up Ready gene to non Round-Up Ready soybeans
• Effect of soybean seeding efficiency and row spacing on soybean yield

Organizations

• American Society of Agronomy
• Soil Science Society of America
• Crop Sciences Society of America
• Past-Technical Division Coordinator for American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation
• National Association of State Land Reclamationists
• Past-Chairman and present member, Illinois Surface Mining Advisory Council
• Past-Chairman, North Central Regional Committee on Drastically Disturbed Lands
• Research Center Administrators Societ

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