Dale M. Johnson

Personal Web Page

Dale is a Farm Management Specialist with the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension. He was raised on a 700-acre potato and wheat farm in the Snake River basin of Idaho. He received an Associate Degree in Farm Crops Management from Ricks College, a Bachelors Degree in Agribusiness Management from Utah State University, and a Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics from Cornell. He joined the University of Maryland in 1985 and conducts workshops and seminars on business planning, record-keeping, financial management, economic analysis, and computer applications for Maryland farmers. He manages the marylandagriculture.info website. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of Maryland and teaches the undergraduate Farm Management course. He has also worked in Poland, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Russia.

Dale's wife, LeAnn, has a Bachelors Degree in Special Education from Utah State University, a Masters in Reading Instruction and a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Maryland. She is an instructor with the Department of Special Education, University of Maryland. Dale and LeAnn raise their six children on a small farm they call Antietam Glen on the bank of the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland.  They are involved in church, Boy Scouts, 4-H, gardening, and livestock.