Sally is the Director of the Crops Testing Program in the Agricultural Experiment Station. She first joined the program in 2010 during graduate school. She is responsible for developing and maintaining a strong, innovative, research program in crop production management relevant to the needs of producers in Colorado. She manages the program budgets, works with commodity groups for research funding, coordinates variety trials, organizes and participates in crop production outreach programs, and analyzes and publishes all of the research trial results.

Sally earned her M.S. degree in Soil and Crop Sciences in 2012 from CSU where she studied agronomic factors affecting grain sorghum yield and maturity in Northeast Colorado.  She enjoys helping her husband with their dryland farm as time allows. Sally is based in Akron, CO and is a Certified Crop Adviser.

Sally Jones-Diamond
Director and Agronomist
CSU Agricultural Experiment Station
40335 Co. Rd. GG
Akron, CO 80720
(970) 214-4611
sally.jones@colostate.edu

Jason is the Associate Director of the program.  He is responsible for coordinating and managing crop variety and agronomy trials in corn, beans, and oilseeds, and writing grants for large, multi-year research projects.  Jason also gives public presentations on research results from the program.  He is a particularly interested in black-eyed pea breeding and soil fertility research and has expanded our work in these areas.

Jason grew up in Ohio and earned a B.S. in Agronomy from The Ohio State University in 1996.  He studied weed science and entomology.  He has worked in the agriculture industry in the Midwest, High Plains, California, and the Texas Gulf Coast across 25 years.  He has owned a small produce farm, and enjoys spending time with his family.  Jason has been a Certified Crop Adviser since 2000 and is based in Akron, CO.

Jason Webb
Associate Director and Agronomist
Central Great Plains Research Station
40335 Co. Rd. GG
Akron, CO 80720
(970) 520-1359
jason.webb@colostate.edu

Judy began working for the Crops Testing Program in 2010 after finishing graduate school. She does a bit of writing and a lot of editing, and helps with data analysis during the harvest season. She coordinates many aspects of our black-eyed pea breeding efforts, including but not limited to greenhouse grow outs, DNA sampling and analyses, and breeding selection decisions.

Judy earned her Ph.D. in CSU’s Soil and Crop Sciences Department. She took classes with an emphasis in plant breeding and genetics, and studied the genetics of the wild grasses Distichlis stricta and Distichlis spicata, both commonly called saltgrass. She earned a master’s degree in horticulture, studying seed germination in Distichlis. She has a B.S. in botany, a B.A. in journalism, and a B.A. in English. In her spare time, she studies foreign languages and attempts to grow plants that are wildly unsuited to the Colorado climate. She is based in Fort Collins.

Judy Harrington
Research Associate
Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences
Fort Collins, CO 80523
judy.harrington@colostate.edu