The Borlaug CAST Communication Award, formerly the Charles A. Black Award, is an annual award presented by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) focused on candidates who engage in promoting agriculture and agriculture-related communications.

Recipients

* 1986: Charles A. Black * 1987: William E. Larson * 1989: Stanley E. Curtis * 1990: Donald E. Davis * 1991: Homer M. LeBaron * 1992:

John Pesek John Pesek (February 21, 1894 – March 12, 1978) was an American professional wrestler and greyhound racing dog breeder. Nicknamed 'The Nebraska Tiger Man' for his ferocity, aggression and catlike dexterity, Olympic freestyle wrestling gold meda ...

* 1993: Fergus M. Clydesdale * 1994: F. J. Francis * 1995: Dale E. Bauman * 1996: Luther G. Tweeten * 1997: Neil E. Harl * 1998: Per Pinstrup-Andersen * 1999: Abner W. Womack * 2000: Dennis R. Keeney * 2001: Judith S. Stern * 2002: Calvin O. Qualset * 2003: Kong Luen Heong * 2004: Marjorie A. Hoy * 2005:

Norman Borlaug Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple ...

* 2006: Stanley R. Johnson * 2007: David H. Baker * 2008:

Pedro A. Sanchez Pedro Sanchez (born 1940) is the director of the Agriculture & Food Security Center, senior research scholar, and director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sanchez was director general of the World ...

* 2009: Richard Wayne Skaggs * 2010: Akin Adesina * 2011:

Catherine Bertini Catherine "Cathy" Bertini is an American public servant. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. She served as the UN Under-Secretary for Management f ...

Laureates
, CAST (last visited Oct. 13, 2012). * 2012: Carl Winter * 2013: Jeff Simmons, President of Elanco * 2014: Alison Van Eenennaam * 2015: Channapatna S. Prakash Dr. C.S. Prakash honored at the 2015 Borlaug CAST Communication Award ceremony
CAST (last visited April 22nd, 2016). * 2016:

Kevin Folta Kevin M. Folta is a professor of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compound ...

Dr. Kevin Folta chosen as 2016 Borlaug CAST Communication Award winner
CAST (last visited April 22nd, 2016).

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