Presenters

Alan Gaul, MS

Alan Gaul is the seed conditioning specialist at the Iowa State University (ISU) Seed Science Center. He is a northeast Iowa native and a graduate of the ISU Agricultural Engineering program.  His experience includes student work with the ISU Ag Engineering grain quality program and later with the ISU Seed Science Center.  Subsequent work included 22 years in seed related machine development, plant design, and project management with Seed & Grain Systems and later AEC Enterprises near New Virginia, Iowa. His responsibilities at Iowa State University include coordinating extension seed conditioning workshop and laboratory programs and conducting research on seed conditioning topics. He has run the seed conditioning research and teaching program since late 2005, as well as coordinated the summer workshops for 12 seasons. He has worked extensively with multiple academic programs, including the ISU online Seed Technology and Business graduate program STB-539 course and lecture/lab sessions for courses in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE), Agronomy, Plant Pathology, and Horticulture.