Jason Rowntree
Affiliations
Faculty Coordinator - Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center
Faculty Coordinator - Lake City Research Center
Extension
Grazing and Grass Finishing Education
Savory Institute, Advisor and Educator
Research
Jason Rowntree is a professor of Animal Science at Michigan State University where he holds the Charles Stewart Mott Distinguished Professorship for Sustainable Agriculture. He also serves as the Director of MSU’s Center for Regenerative Agriculture. Rowntree’s research focus is identifying the metrics and management that reflect ecological improvement in grazing land systems. He conducts this work at Lake City AgBio Research Center where he also maintains coordinator responsibilities. Since arriving to MSU in 2009, Rowntree has given over 250 talks throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Africa and New Zealand. He has also worked to co-develop, with the Savory Institute, an Ecological Outcome Verification that is now being used on over 2 M acres of grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. The EOV has also been branded for products marketed by General Mills, Applegate, Timberland and many others. He is the project director of a new $19.2 M funded project entitled, “Metrics, Management, and Monitoring: An Investigation of Pasture and Rangeland Soil Health and its Drivers”. His work in beef sustainability has been featured in the movie Sacred Cow, The Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes and many other popular media publications.
Publications
Related Work
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An Introduction to Regenerative Field Crop and Grazing Systems
Published on July 11, 2024
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Director of MSU AgBioResearch introduced as incoming agInnovation chair
Published on October 9, 2023
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Rowntree testifies before Senate Ag Committee in support of research, Extension funding
Published on December 12, 2022
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MSU alums fulfill critical roles in $19 million grazing, soil health study
Published on October 28, 2022
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MSU researchers play pivotal role in new $19M grazing, soil health project
Published on July 6, 2022
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New MSU research supported by sustainable agriculture fund
Published on May 12, 2022
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$19M research project seeks to understand how management impacts soil health, farmer well-being
Published on December 7, 2021
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MSU animal science professor exploring environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture
Published on February 15, 2021
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Rowntree named C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture
Published on February 10, 2021