Forrest Izuno

Professor
[email protected]
+1 507 837 5615

35838 12th St.
Waseca, MN 56093
United States

Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC)
Education
  • Ph.D. - Agricultural Engineering.  Colorado State University.
  • M.S. - Agricultural Engineering.  Colorado State University.
  • B.S. - Agricultural Engineering.  Purdue University.

Areas of Interest

Value-added crops/cropping systems, social and economic improvements for rural areas. Agricultural Production System Resilience, BMPs for Agricultural Water Quality, and Application for Plasma in the Liquid Phase.

Research

Forrest Izuno was appointed Head of the University of Minnesota’s Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC) at Waseca in September 2001.

His interests include ensuring that the SROC will always be true to the University’s academic mission and that a strong relationship between the University and citizens of the state shall be maintained.  A key focus of his leadership is the development of internal and external partnerships towards promoting multidisciplinary research and outreach for the purpose of enhancing the value of the rural landscape including: 1) alternative and added-value crops and cropping systems; 2) balancing primary values including food production, biomass production for renewable energy and fiber, plant-based chemopreventive agents and the environment; and 3) developing opportunities for sustainable social and economic vitality in rural areas.

Biofuel production, animal barn sanitation and PFAS destruction using plasma in the liquid phase. Long-term Agricultural Research Network for a systems approach to studying resilience