Bob Kremer

Adjunct Professor of Soil Microbiology · University of Missouri · company speakers →

Bob Kremer practices soil health principles on our diversified family farm in Osage County, Missouri. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in agronomy from the University of Missouri and Ph.D. in soil science and biochemistry from Mississippi State University. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Soil Microbiology at the University of Missouri. In 2014 he retired after a 32-year career as a microbiologist with U.S.D.A, Agricultural Research Service. He began studies in soil quality in the early ‘90s and was among the first to show the association of microbial activity with soil health in various agroecosystems and subsequently correlated other microbial properties including microbiome structure with other soil health indicators. He shows how on-farm observations of good soil health are associated with sustainable agricultural practices by using robust assessments that include biological indicators. Demonstrating that soil health can be improved sustainably is exciting because this stimulates better ecologically-based management of soils and moves farming toward reduced soil disturbance and chemical inputs that also degrade the environment. This experience has been applied to teaching lessons in soil microbiology and sustainable agriculture classes at the University of Missouri.

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