Funded by the Illinois Soybean Checkoff
Soybean Summit presents Researcher Shawn Conley Read all about the well-renowned soybean specialist, Dr. Shawn Conley. By Claire Weinzierl
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r. Shawn Conley grew up in southern Wisconsin on his family’s dairy farm. Following high school, Conley attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received his bachelor's, master's,
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and doctoral degrees. Conley then moved on to the University of Missouri at Columbia where worked as a small grains specialist. In 2004, he was hired by Perdue University as State Soybean and Wheat Specialist, a role he held for the next three years.
In 2007, he moved back to his home state of Wisconsin where he currently works as the Wisconsin State Soybean and Small Grains Extension Specialist in the Department of Agronomy at the UW-Madison.
Checkoff-funded Research Conley’s overall research goal is to generate science-based solutions to address real world problems in soybean and small grain production.
