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Christopher Graham is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist-Agronomist at the Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, South Dakota State University (SDSU). His roles include academic teaching, research, and extension activities focused on sustainable agricultural practices in semi-arid regions.
Education: B.S. from Arizona State University, M.P.A. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research emphasizes interactions between plants, soils, and microbes, with a focus on nitrogen cycling, crop physiology, and legume-based cropping systems.
Key research areas include: 1) Nitrogen fixation in pulse crops under abiotic stress, 2) Soil health dynamics during grassland-to-crop conversion, 3) Cover crop integration in dryland farming systems, and 4) Climate-smart agricultural practices in the Northern Great Plains. He leads trials on wheat, oats, field peas, sorghum, and sunflower varieties.
He collaborates with SDSU’s West River Research Farm, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, and Extension programs. Notable projects include evaluating microbial community shifts during land-use changes, optimizing nitrogen management in winter wheat, and developing climate-resilient cropping systems.
