Georgine Yorgey

Associate Director

Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources

State: WA

About

Georgine Yorgey is the Associate Director of WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, where she has worked since 2009. She leads the Center’s efforts to support the circularity of organic wastes within agriculture, co-leads efforts relating to climate change and agriculture, and contributes to Center-wide efforts relating to the BIOAg program. She publishes in academic and extension publications, with recent efforts that include the Farmer-to-Farmer Case Studies: Enhancing Resilience of Farming in the Pacific Northwest (13 case studies, 2016-current), and co-editing and co-authoring chapters in Advances in Dryland Farming in the Inland Pacific Northwest (2017). Current projects include work on AgAID to support the application of AI technologies within tree fruit and other perennial cropping systems in support of sustainability.