Jay D. Harmon

Title(s):

Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach
Director for Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension and Outreach
Professor of ABE

Office

132 Curtiss
513 Farm House Ln.
Ames, IA 500111054

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Education

  • Ph.D. Agricultural Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1989
  • M.S. Agricultural Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1986
  • B.S. Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University, 1984

Interest Areas

Dr. Harmon worked cooperatively with Dr. Xin in the development of the Livestock Environment and Animal Physiology (LEAP) Laboratory, a state-of-the-art energetics lab that has been used to evaluate heat and moisture production from early weaned pigs and poultry. Other projects include the investigation of emergency carcass composting procedures, evaluation of outdoor air quality associated with deep-bedded hoop systems for swine production, biofilter effectiveness for odor control and evaluation of swine and beef performance while housed in deep-bedded hoop systems.  He was responsible for developing extension programming related to animal production systems and taught courses in wood structural design and animal production systems.  He continues to teach a 1 credit online course on ventilation of swine facilities.

Appointment

Extension primary, teaching, research

Expertise

Livestock production systems and air quality Learn more about Dr. Harmon’s programs:

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