Agriculture Expert Witnesses

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What is an agriculture expert witness?

Agriculture expert witness candidates typically have areas of expertise in agronomy, agricultural economics, horticulture, agribusiness, arboriculture, environmental science and/or regulatory compliance. Agriculture expert witnesses have specialized training in agrichemicals, crop production, animal feeds, biofuels, grain transport and processing, farm machinery, and/or farm management. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an agriculture expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.

What types of cases require an agriculture expert witness?

Litigation matters requiring agriculture and agribusiness expert witness services can involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation or trade secret disputes. An expert could also be called in on breach of contract disputes, business valuation, agriculture equipment appraisals, and food packaging matters.

Agriculture expert witness case examples

Example matters that Cahn Litigation Services has placed agriculture litigation support experts have encompassed:

• livestock fencing,
• Missouri farm real estate underwriting,
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),
• New York land use,
• forestry, and
• accident reconstruction at a Colorado ranch.

What litigation support work might an agriculture expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support by an agriculture or agribusiness expert could include land appraisal, regulatory compliance assessment, authoring expert opinions, deposition testimony, and expert testimony in court. In addition, clients may seek an agriculture industry expert for pre-litigation consulting services.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an agriculture expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Agriculture Expert Witness - Representative Bios

Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Agriculture experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Agriculture landscape.

• Expert Witness #255238

  This expert is an independent consultant in the safe use and design of construction, industrial, and agricultural equipment. This expert's experience includes the evaluation of product design, warnings development and safety and operational training. This expert served as a delegate on various ISO and ANSI subcommittees and is as a noted authority on lifting equipment safety.

  
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• Expert Witness #256629

  This expert holds a Ph.D. in Logistics, Marketing & Packaging. This expert held positions from Research Assistant to Full Professor in the School of Packaging, and is a Professor Emeritus. This expert's primary focus in research and practical testing has been in two areas: Reusable Shipping Containers, and prevention of in-transit damage to food. For many years this expert's research team assisted the United States Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency to insure the adequacy of packages for food aid. This expert provided technical assistance and developed package performance standards for all the food which the USDA purchases and distributes -- the largest food distribution system in the world -- which includes such programs as price support commodity purchases, foreign food aid such as "Food for Peace" programs, and domestic feeding programs such as school lunches, charities, and disaster assistance. This expert is well-published and served as Editor of a top refereed journal in the packaging field. This expert has served as an expert witness for lawsuits involving personal injury, transit damage litigation and patent issues with respect to packaging and has consulted on projects dealing with the technical, social and economic implications of packaging systems, ranging from distribution system analysis and package design, to evaluation of specific packaging and vehicle loading operations.

  
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• Expert Witness #258425

  This expert is President of a highly sought-after forensic accounting consultancy. With many years of experience, this expert provides consulting, analytical, forensic accounting, expert witness, transactional, and other sophisticated financial services to clients in a diverse array of industries and professions including:

  -  Agriculture	-  Ethanol and Biodiesel production
  -  Breach of Contract	-  Farm Operations
  -  Surety Disputes	-  Gluten Production
  -  Tortious Interference	-  Supply Chain Issues
  -  Forensic Investigation and Quantification	-  Fraud and Misrepresentation

  This expert has served as the damages expert for several Agriculturally-related matters including:

  -  A Beef Production matter involving cattle harmed by a defective vaccine. This expert was the plaintiff's damages expert and calculated lost profits on cattle sales, and on consequentially-lost crop land. This case settled.

  -  A series of lawsuits. The first, and most important one, resulted in a major win for this expert's client. The damages have included increased replacement products costs, accounting-based damages, and lost crop production income.

  -  A jury trial resulted in a major win for this expert's client. A company claimed many millions of dollars of lost profits on allegedly lost implement sales. The jury decided damages equal to this expert's number, which was zero.

  -  A class action. This expert was the damages expert for the class. The case settled in favor of the class based on this expert's report.

  This expert also has extensive experience with the complex financial issues. These have included:

  -  Business interruption claims (lost profits)

  -  Business tort, contract, and employment claims (causation, damages)

  -  Forensic investigations (causation and damages)

  -  Proof of claim issues (causation and quantification)

  -  Records reconstruction (proof)

  In addition, this expert is the owner and operator of a farm / ranch where this expert grows corn, wheat, soybeans, and have a herd cows. This expert sells weaned specialty calves under contract, and raise / feed-out many others that are butchered for sale on-farm, and in-town stores.

  
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• Expert Witness #258470

  This expert leads a nationally recognized Crop and Agriculture practice of a highly successful consultancy specializing in Economic Analytics. This expert has been involved with crop & agriculture litigation of all types, including lender liability, chemical drift, product liability, off-label chemical applications, herbicide misapplication, and breach of contract. Recognized as a leader in quantifying economic damages in this space, this expert has successfully testified on multi-million-dollar cases and has been recognized for the ability to handle large amounts of information and filter it to the most pertinent issues.

  Specializing in labor economics, crop valuation, and small business finance, this expert is retained regularly by both plaintiff and defense counsel as an expert regarding economic damages, and has testified more than one hundred times in state and federal litigation across the United States.

  This expert has extensive experience in labor economics and has conducted wage loss analyses for children, students, stay-at-home parents, and workers employed in numerous industries. This expert has testified as an expert witness regarding economic damages in wage loss cases involving claims associated with construction injuries, aviation disasters, medical malpractice, personal injuries, age and gender discrimination, constructive discharge, retaliatory discharge, and breach of contract.

  This expert has transacted multiple small business public offerings and reverse mergers and acquisitions. Joining finance theory with practical business experience, this expert offers the unique ability both to quantify and to explain the actual value of small business transactions.

  
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• Expert Witness #260332

  HACCP Stands for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point. HACCP is an internationally recognized system for reducing the risk of safety hazards in food. An HACCP System requires that potential hazards are identified and controlled at specific points in the process.

  Following a career in the public and private sectors, this expert launched a consulting firm, serving as President and CEO and specializing in food safety and health policy, and regulatory science. This expert has had senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors. During this expert's career in the food industry, this expert served as a director in supply chain management and quality systems. In these roles, this expert was an integral player in the care and management of perishable produce from the vendor through to manufacturing or service in a restaurant. This expert worked closely with multiple companies and regulatory agencies in the safe handling, storage, transport, and service of fresh produce - including strawberries.

  In addition to responsibilities for food safety, this expert had a leadership role in designing and reviewing traceability programs for food products in national and international transport in quality and food safety leadership roles; and as part of the development of Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems, and ISO 9000 quality management systems. This expert reviewed various temperature tracking tools and used several different systems in various positions. Further, as a successful consultant, this expert has had to review procedures and data for temperature tracking; this expert is well familiar with the industry's needs and available tools for temperature control. This expert has worked with most commodities and is highly familiar with the standard shelf life of perishable food items, and the impact of temperature and humidity on food quality and safety.

  Prior to joining the public sector, this expert worked for a regulatory agency for meat and poultry. There this expert led the global development for the principles of HACCP, and played key roles in the adoption of HACCP as a regulatory tool and the development of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards. This expert has also worked for two science-based trade associations.

  This expert received a doctoral degree, Masters of Science and undergraduate degree and is a

  Registered Dietitian. This expert is also a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists.

  This expert has extensive prior litigation experience including a significant number of depositions and one trial testimony.

  
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• Expert Witness #224221

  This expert is known internationally as one of the top experts on kinetics of reactions related to loss in food quality, nutrient degradation and pathogen growth and death kinetics.

  This expert is also well known for teaching, working with and mentoring Ph.D. students, post-docs and visiting scientists. This expert has helped over many mentees gain faculty positions around the world, most of whom are doing research on reaction kinetics.

  This expert is the author or co-author of over 280 scientific refereed research articles, 18 textbooks, 78 book chapters, eight patents and more than 100 other semi-technical articles. This expert has 14 refereed research papers, books or chapters and reviews that have been cited more than 200 times in other research papers or books, two at over 600 times and six others between 300-400 times, another five between 200-300 times and 30 more between 100-200. This expert’s research group has published an average of 10 research papers a year, including work in the Journal of Food Science, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, Analyst, Journal of the Royal Chemical Society, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Food Chemistry, Journal of Food Protection and Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition.

  This expert’s research has been supported by grants from the Department of Homeland Security, the US Center of Excellence, as well as grants from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Additionally, this expert has received grants from the American Egg Board, Almond Board, Dairy Research Inc., and the Beef Council.

  This expert’s Areas of Research include

  Water activity

  Food stability

  Food safety

  Shelf life testing

  Shelf life dating

  RFID tags

  Time-Temperature Integrator Tags

  Food labeling

  Contaminants in food

  Bioterrorism

  Food law

  Glass Transition Phenomena

  In addition to academic work and research, this expert serves as Chief Scientist at a company that makes smart sensors used to monitor temperature or both temperature and freshness. The company’s patent and copyright intellectual property portfolio centers around radio frequency sensor identification devices, labels, tags and liners, radio frequency data capture software, cloud services and analytics. The IP also includes systems, software and methods for using the above tools for managing perishables in the cold chain and for tracking wear-and-tear of non-perishable items throughout their life or warranty period.

  This expert has prior patent litigation experience and has been deposed and testified before a jury. Additionally, this expert has served as an expert for litigation in a case involving Time-Temperature Integrator (TTI) shelf life tags.

  
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• Expert Witness #236450

  This robotics expert holds a PhD and has over 20 years of experience researching, publishing, and teaching in LIDAR, computer vision, computational vision, robotics, autonomous systems, and agricultural robotics. This expert has held senior leadership roles for major robotics conferences, including ICRA and IROS, and has received prominent professional awards for service and work in robotics.

  This expert has published and supervised research involving LiDAR data for autonomous vehicle applications, weed detection and classification in high-altitude aerial images for robot-based precision agriculture, nitrogen-deficiency detection in corn fields using high-resolution RGB imagery, 3D model processing for high-throughput phenotype extraction, machine learning and computer vision for precision agriculture, plant localization and phenotyping in dense 3D point clouds, and agricultural field segmentation.

  This expert has taught intelligent robotic systems, computational vision, and robotics for over 20 years, including coursework involving methods similar to those used in autonomous and agricultural robotics systems. This expert has consulted for technology companies on robotics, autonomous systems, and agricultural robotics, including work involving weed-detection software and precision-agriculture applications.

  This expert has worked with companies in the agricultural robotics domain as a consultant and has licensed patent technology in the area to companies. This expert has led major robotics funding initiatives, including state-level robotics programs in which agricultural robotics was a key growth area, and has served as director of a robotics institute.

  This expert has been involved in a prominent robotics and automation professional society for several decades, is an IEEE Fellow in Robotics, and has held senior conference-leadership roles. This expert has also received prominent robotics service awards and has worked on multi-million-dollar contracts from major government research and security agencies to develop complex autonomous robots.

  This expert holds over 5 patents, including patents involving autonomous robots and agricultural robotics, several of which have been licensed to companies. This expert can review production code and evaluate the performance of deployed algorithms associated with autonomous robots and agricultural robotics.

  This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #265369

  This drainage/water storage and agricultural soil expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Horticulture, along with a BS in Plant Science/Pomology, and has been extensively published.

  This expert specializes in plant science, agriculture, irrigation, plant stress physiology, weed science, herbicide modes of action, plant nutrition, and agricultural statistics.

  This expert has a background that includes work with soil, mulches, vegetable crop production, and bioplastics, including research involving biodegradable plastic developed from corn.

  This expert has held senior leadership roles in environmental science consulting and has served as an invited speaker, expert witness, and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #265397

  This soil and farm management expert is an established agricultural consultant with over 40 years of experience providing agricultural science, economics, management, and appraisal services.

  This expert works on farming- and agriculture-related matters, including agronomy, soils, and farm management, and holds Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) and Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) credentials among other industry accreditations.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness.

  
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• Expert Witness #278061

  This agricultural engineer/grain accident expert leads and owns an engineering consultancy focused on commercial agriculture and industrial projects, and holds a B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering with an emphasis in structures and agricultural environments.

  This expert has been a member of a grain elevator and processing industry society for over 20 years and a state feed and grain association for over 15 years.

  
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• Expert Witness #282084

  This agricultural soil expert holds a BS and MS in Agriculture (Soil Water Science) and Agronomy (Soil Fertility) and has worked as an environmental consultant focused mainly on soil and agronomy science across the United States. This expert has performed over 15 expert consulting and witness projects and owns a consulting firm that primarily provides soil science and agronomy consulting for large-scale disturbances.

  
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• Expert Witness #283890

  This workplace safety expert is considered an expert in safety, health, and environmental affairs. This expert has developed and implemented numerous safety policies and training programs for clients and has performed similar duties for prior employers.

  This expert has experience involving agriculture and industrial trucks and has worked on cases involving those subjects, including forklift accident matters. This expert holds top professional credentials from a safety, health, and environmental professional association.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #284311

  This land use/water rights expert is a senior consulting engineer who assists clients with water management projects ranging from residential development to agriculture and mining. This expert holds a B.Sc. in Hydrology and Hydraulic/Groundwater Engineering and worked for a state water resources agency for over 20 years before opening a consulting firm.

  
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• Expert Witness #286777

  This workplace safety expert is an OSHA-authorized Safety Instructor with experience working with OSHA in manufacturing and construction-site accident matters. This expert has experience with safety rules applying to agricultural operations, including OSHA 1910 General Industry and OSHA 1928 Agriculture.

  This expert has investigated many forklift and equipment-related accidents over the years, including accidents involving forklifts, manlifts, compact loaders, and tractors at agricultural, recreational, and marine-related venues. This expert is an authorized OSHA safety trainer as well as a certified forklift operator and trainer, with experience interpreting and applying regulations in many cases over many years.

  
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• Expert Witness #293623

  This bankruptcy expert has over 40 years of experience in distressed debt management and corporate turnaround, with general working knowledge of the Chapter 12 process and substantial experience with Chapter 11.

  This expert has experience in agriculture-related Chapter 11 cases, expert witness work in agriculture-related litigation, and substantial experience in PACA-related matters, including bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy contexts.

  
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• Expert Witness #296651

  This agricultural engineering expert holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from a prestigious technical university and is an academic professor specializing in autonomous agricultural robotics, agricultural AI, machine learning, imaging sensors, and precision field operations.

  This expert holds a faculty role at a major public research university, leads autonomous farming research at a digital agriculture research center, and serves as a technology executive and co-founder of an agricultural robotics company. This expert has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in robotics and AI, with a significant portion addressing autonomous and vision/image-based systems in agriculture.

  This expert's research and commercial work over 10 years have focused on developing autonomous agricultural robots that integrate imaging sensors, AI, and machine learning to perform tasks such as weed detection, phenotyping, and precision field operations. This expert has served as an expert witness in prior IP litigation involving robotics and AI.

  
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• Expert Witness #300079

  This agriculture and farming expert holds an EdD and is a professor in agricultural and biological engineering at a well-regarded university.

  This expert has received an award for contributions to agricultural safety and health education. This expert has published articles and given presentations on farm fires and has worked extensively on combine fire issues. This expert also serves in a project director role for an agricultural safety organization that assists farmers with emergency preparedness, agricultural-related injuries, and disability assistance.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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