Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him.
Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist specializing in the most unwelcome guests that pop up in Wisconsin farm fields.
“Nobody wants to be in the same field where I do research,” says Werle, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of plant and agroecosystem sciences and extension scientist. “I want to work where there’s giant ragweed and waterhemp and all the hardest-to-control weeds we have.”
So, when he first laid eyes on UW–Madison’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station during his 2017 job interview, he began imagining all kinds of research possibilities. Arlington is one of UW–Madison’s 12 Agricultural Research Stations dotting the state, 10 of which are both working farms and working laboratories. The goal of these stations is to develop useful recommendations for farmers.
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