He joined the faculty of the Soil Science Department in 1950; he did agricultural extension work throughout the state and taught and researched in soil and water conservation. His early work in planting corn without plowing no till is now widely accepted. In 1960, he developed a unique statewide frost depth-reporting network in cooperation with cemetery officials, funeral directors and the State Crop Reporting Service to provide frost depths from November to April. This network still continues. Land application of bio-solids occupied most of his work in later years. For 30 years his Soil and Water Conservation course had a 120-mile aerial field trip to study the erosion and drainage problems associated with the glaciated and unglaciated areas of Wisconsin. He retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.
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