Rick Carr

Farm Director at Rodale Institute
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Farm Director
      • Nov 2019 - Present

      Kutztown, PA

    • Compost Production Specialist
      • Aug 2013 - Nov 2019

      Kutztown, PA Current duties at the Rodale Institute are to produce compost materials for research and organic farming purposes.

    • Farming
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Compost Consultant
      • Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

      Composting consultant. Projects include: development of procedures for preparing thermophilic compost, vermicompost, and liquid vermicompost extracts; management of compost materials; field application of compost materials; testing to determine efficacy of compost materials; construction of vegetable garden; transplanting embryos for the Dorper sheep project; data entry and analysis; and machine operator (John Deere tractors (5403 and 542 with bucket and fork), Agco Allis tractor (6.125)… Show more Composting consultant. Projects include: development of procedures for preparing thermophilic compost, vermicompost, and liquid vermicompost extracts; management of compost materials; field application of compost materials; testing to determine efficacy of compost materials; construction of vegetable garden; transplanting embryos for the Dorper sheep project; data entry and analysis; and machine operator (John Deere tractors (5403 and 542 with bucket and fork), Agco Allis tractor (6.125), front-end loader, bobcat, cultivator, manure spreader, Jacto liquid fumigator/mosquito sprayer, tractor-pulled thermophilic compost turner, field mower, and cultivator). Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research technician
      • Jan 2007 - Apr 2012

      Vermicompost-mediated disease suppression of Pythium aphanidermatum, with specific focus on suppression on the zoosporangium stage of P. aphanidermatum development.

Education

  • Cornell University
    Master's degree, Plant Pathology
    2010 - 2012
  • Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    Bachelor's degree, Biology
    2001 - 2005

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