Jason Rowntree

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C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture
Department of Animal Science

Email:
rowntre1@msu.edu

Degrees:
BS, Texas A&M University
MS, Mississippi State University
PhD, Michigan State University

Affiliations

Faculty Coordinator - Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center

Faculty Coordinator - Lake City Research Center

Extension

Grazing and Grass Finishing Education

Savory Institute, Advisor and Educator

Research

Jason Rowntree is a professor of Animal Science at Michigan State University where he holds the Charles Stewart Mott Distinguished Professorship for Sustainable Agriculture. He also serves as the Director of MSU’s Center for Regenerative Agriculture. Rowntree’s research focus is identifying the metrics and management that reflect ecological improvement in grazing land systems. He conducts this work at Lake City AgBio Research Center where he also maintains coordinator responsibilities. Since arriving to MSU in 2009, Rowntree has given over 250 talks throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Africa and New Zealand. He has also worked to co-develop, with the Savory Institute, an Ecological Outcome Verification that is now being used on over 2 M acres of grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. The EOV has also been branded for products marketed by General Mills, Applegate, Timberland and many others. He is the project director of a new $19.2 M funded project entitled, “Metrics, Management, and Monitoring: An Investigation of Pasture and Rangeland Soil Health and its Drivers”. His work in beef sustainability has been featured in the movie Sacred Cow, The Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes and many other popular media publications.