This is a tenure-track position where this person is responsible for providing leadership for extension educational programs in crops extension educational programs in crops, soils, weeds, forage, and rangelands in Southwest Kansas, which includes an ability to plan, design, implement, provide training, evaluate, and market extension educational programs. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a cooperative extension and applied research program in agronomy with an interdisciplinary team of extension specialists and research scientists. Irrigated and dryland crops produced in the area are key to the beef industry and the expanding swine and dairy operations in the region. Cropping systems management is taking on an ever more significant role in sustaining economic growth i