Caleb Dalley has joined the NDSU Hettinger Research Extension Center as a research weed scientist for western North Dakota. 

"Dalley's focus at the Hettinger REC will be to build a new research program evaluating herbicide efficacy, weed control in crops and rangelands, and cultural weed control practices," says Chris Schauer, Hettinger Research Extension Center director. "A secondary emphasis will be placed on collaboration with NDSU scientists on the impacts of tillage and dryland crop sequencing on weed populations."

Dalley earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in plant science from Utah State University. He earned a doctorate in crop and soil sciences from Michigan State University.

His work at MSU focused on weed control in glyphosate-resistant corn and soybeans.

Prior to coming to NDSU, Dalley spent 10 years as an agronomist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Sugarcane Research Unit in Houma, Louisiana.

While with the unit, Dalley's research focused on evaluating weed management in sugar cane.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.