Matt Yost, Ph.D.

Field: Plants, Soils, and Climate
Areas of Focus: Climate Change, Crop Management, Soil Management, Water Resources Management

Expertise

• Water management promoting resiliency
• Crop management promoting resiliency
• Soil management promoting resiliency
• Precision agriculture
• Climate change
• Soil

Bio

Dr.  Matt Yost is a native of southern Idaho where he was raised on a dairy farm. After completing his doctorate degree at the University of Minnesota in Applied Plant Sciences, he spent four years doing postdoctoral research in the U.S. Midwest. He is currently an assistant professor and agroclimate extension specialist in the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department. He conducts and manages long-term water optimization research in Logan, Vernal, and Cedar City, Utah. He also manages an on-farm research program that includes nearly 20-30 research trials in various parts of Utah each year. He is the current director of USU CROPS, which is a team of 25 extension experts conducting dynamic crop production outreach. He has authored numerous journal and extension articles on research dealing with water optimization, nitrogen management, precision agriculture, soil conservation, and bioenergy crops.