April 29, 2021
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences
Professor Lav Khot was named interim director of Washington State University’s AgWeatherNet with the goal of maintaining the momentum of the system’s growth and increasing public-private partnerships. Khot takes over as director for Dave Brown, who initiated much of the growth.
AgWeatherNet provides weather data and weather-related support tools to improve agricultural production, efficiency and profitability.
Lav Khot
“We want to make sure this high-quality data is collected and distributed to grower stakeholders so they can make informed decisions that benefit their operations and the state of Washington,” said Khot, an associate professor in WSU’s Department of Biological Systems Engineering and faculty in the Center for Precision & Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS).