William J. Bamka is the Burlington County Agricultural Agent at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. He has worked extensively on the areas of forage quality, nutrient management, water quality and pasture management, the latter focusing on grazing practices that affect forage use, animal performance and natural resource protection.

 

The recipient of a master’s degree in agronomy from Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Bamka previously served as a soil scientist with both Coastal Environment Services of Princeton and Tectonic, Inc. of Doylestown, Pennsylvania; biosolids utilization manager for Delaware’s Kent County; and farm manager of the Plant Genetics Group at Long Island’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

 

Mr. Bamka is the recipient of several honors from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents for his outreach efforts, notably a national award for Best Contributed Poster, “Survey of New Jersey Equine Owners on Pasture Management Practices” (2002); a State Excellence Award for “Using the Internet to Market Hay and Straw (2001); an AT&T Communications Award for his 2002 fact sheet, “Poisonous Weeds in Horse Pastures,” and an AT&T Communications National Award for his 1998 newsletter, “Equine Essentials.”

 

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