Heather has over a decade of experience working within agriculture, both in the research realm, but also in conservation. She has worked with the United States Department of Agriculture as a soil scientist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and a researcher with the Agriculture Research Service. Heather has expertise in soil science (physical, chemical, and biological properties), including soil sampling, analysis, and interpretation, both through past employment and formal education, having obtained both an MS and Ph.D. in soil science. Her research experience has been in cover crops, diverse cropping systems, and soil health, with a focus both on how cover crops impact yields but also the soil microbial populations and nutrient cycling. Within the last three years, Heather has been working in private industry with agricultural input products, both with research and development, but also for increasing plant health and yields. In her current role, Heather interfaces with many different business aspects, including marketing and communication, research and development, and agricultural service programs. She is an expert in designing and analyzing experiments both in the field and in controlled environments. Her main statistical analysis package is SAS, but she is also an intermediate R user and an expert in data visualizations and building Shiny apps for internal teams to review data.Additionally, Heather is an expert in constructing Power BI apps with R visualizations for creating custom graphs. She has been instrumental in designing trials to test biological products and gather data on a system approach for agriculture management. More recently, Heather has also supported the data analysis to provide warranty programs designed to help farmers improve their yields through prescriptive input services.