Walt Mahaffee is a research plant pathologist with the USDA Horticultural Crop Research Unit in Corvallis and a courtesy faculty member of the OSU department of botany and plant pathology. He is a core researcher with the Oregon Wine Research Institute. He is at work on a risk-management system for agricultural crops that includes a robust simulation environment and autonomous robots equipped to make fine-scale management decisions. Special Thanks to: Bill Boggess, Executive Associate Dean, OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Danielle Gabriel, inspiration for OWRI research video series https://owri.oregonstate.edu/
