Clay Robinson recently founded CRC Soil & Ecosystem Services LLC to help read the soil stories and provide help and recommendations for those struggling with soil problems.

Clay is an experienced soil scientist, consultant, agronomist, researcher, communicator and educator. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has worked in the public, nonprofit and private sectors. He has a BS in Agriculture, and MS in Agronomy from West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M Univeristy) and a PhD in Soil Science. from Iowa State University. He is a Certified Professional Soil Scientists (CPSS) and Certified Crop Adviser (CCA).
Clay has lived and worked in the deserts of New Mexico, the semiarid shortgrass prairies of the Texas High Plains and the humid Midwest states of Iowa and Illinois. Through coaching collegiate soil judging teams and consulting, he has evaluated soils and cropping systems in more than twenty states and six countries on four continents. He has experience with dryland, rainfed and irrigated agriculture management system, soil and water conservation and erosion control, irrigation scheduling and measuring irrigation efficiency, short- and long-term tillage and cropping system effects on soil carbon loss or gain (sequestration), soil mapping and land classification, remediation and revegetation following construction projects, and vegetation surveys. His research includes studying the shifting precipitation patterns and temperature trends in the USA Great Plains, factors that affect evapotranspiration and crop water requirements.