Karl Steddom, PhD

As Agerpoint’s chief agronomist, Karl’s focus is finding the intersection between the deep data science tools of Agerpoint and the agronomic needs of customers. He leads field-based R&D activities in the development of new technologies and methods, tests customer-facing tools, and oversees custom analytic services.

Karl has a PhD in plant pathology and spent most of his career in academia as a researcher and extension specialist working directly with growers and their production challenges. His area of specialization was field testing of agtech and remote sensing tools to battle plant diseases and the ecology of plant pathogens in commercial agriculture.