Ed Barnes is Senior Director, Agricultural & Environmental Research, at Cotton Incorporated. He manages agricultural engineering–related projects, including ginning, precision farming, irrigation, and conservation tillage system research. Over his career, Barnes has received two USDA certificates of merit and served on the editorial board of Agricultural Water Management and on the Science Advisory Council of Field to Market, The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Biological and Agricultural Engineers (ASABE) and has served on their board of trustees. Barnes’s career at Cotton Incorporated began in 2002; previously, he was Director of Agricultural Research. Prior to his work at Cotton Incorporated, Barnes spent seven years as an agricultural engineer for the USDA, Agricultural Research Service, at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona; in this position, he developed applications of remotely sensed data for agricultural management. He received BS and MS degrees in biological and agricultural engineering from North Carolina State University and a PhD in biosystems engineering from Oklahoma State University.
