Curriculum Vitae

Bruce Erickson is a Certified Professional Agronomist that uses his expertise and experience in education and agribusiness to provide solutions for crop producers, their advisers, and the industries that depend on them. Erickson is part of a team that plans and implements the Top Farmer Crop Workshop, and also works extensively with the Site-Specific Management Center and Crops Extension programming.

Erickson’s areas of expertise include corn and soybean production, remote sensing and its application in precision agricultural practices, instructional design, and competency-based education and assessment. For the last several years Erickson has worked in a consulting role to agribusinesses and government agencies in the U.S. and Canada. He has experience in building technical, product-related, sales and marketing programs to fulfill individual proficiency needs and to meet business goals, and then delivering through classroom, field, teleconference, CD and web-based platforms.

Erickson began his professional career as an agronomist with Pioneer Hi-Bred in Iowa. After completing his PhD, Erickson was on the staff of the Purdue Department of Agronomy where he taught the introductory agronomy course and played a leading role in developing and maintaining the performance objective documents and the minimum proficiency exams for the International Certified Crop Adviser Program (CCA). More recently, Bruce served as Senior Technical Designer at Agri Business Group in Indianapolis, an agricultural consulting company.

Site Specific Management Center
http://www2.agriculture.purdue.edu/ssmc/

Top Farmer Crop Workshop
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/topfarmer/