2013 ASHS Annual Conference

Thomas Björkman is the chair of the ASHS National Issues Task Force. He enjoys using compelling impact statements to persuade legislators, horticulture industry leaders, and other decisionmakers that horticultural scientists are doing important and exciting work that deserves much greater support. He finds writing his own impact statements just as difficult as everyone else does. He does research in crop physiology, with projects on improving vegetable production systems through the use cover crops and developing broccoli genotypes that will produce quality inflorescences in the eastern United States.