Angadi to chair book, multimedia committee

Sangamesh (Sangu) Angadi has been appointed as Chair of the ACS320 Book and Multimedia Publishing Committee, starting in January 2026 for a three-year term. The Societies’ book-publishing program has more than 330 print and electronic titles that provide students, researchers, and other professionals with up-to-date research and lasting knowledge on relevant topics in the agronomic, crop, soil, and environmental sciences.

Angadi is a Professor of Crop Stress Physiology at New Mexico State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has more than 35 years of agricultural research experience in India, Canada, and the U.S., most of it is in semiarid regions, where water is the most yield-limiting factor. His research focuses on improving water efficiency of agriculture using multiple approaches to achieve “more crop per drop” and sustain the Ogallala Aquifer longer. His crop diversification efforts are looking for ways to use less water and inputs, requiring deeper-rooted, desert-adapted alternative crops, which offer many rotational benefits and improve climate resiliency in a cereal-dominated production region. Some of his projects also focus on alternative irrigation strategies on these new crops using deficit irrigation principles. 

Angadi is working on novel concepts like circular buffer strips of native perennial grasses to improve many ecosystem services, including the water cycle of irrigated agriculture in the U.S. Great Plains. His research centers on improving all aspects of the water cycle, including storage of rainfall in the soil profile, utilizing most of the stored water in crop production, and reducing water losses from the system. Angadi has a special focus on using new sensors or technologies in innovative ways to assess agriculture systems. Overall, his multidisciplinary research addresses current challenges faced by agriculture in the region under limited irrigation and dryland conditions and seeks to prepare farmers for future challenges. 

Angadi has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts from his research. His research and extension activities have been instrumental for producers growing canola, safflower, and new cropping systems in the region.