Jeff Hadachek is an assistant professor and extension specialist in the department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jeff’s research and extension program addresses the economics of soil health and water quality in Wisconsin agriculture and the U.S. more broadly. Prior to joining UW in August of 2023, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis and is an undergraduate alumn of Kansas State University. He grew up in North Central Kansas on his family’s row crop farm and cow-calf operation.