Julie Kikkert is a vegetable crops specialist with the CCE Cornell Vegetable Program, a regional agriculture team that serves the commercial vegetable industry in a large multi-county region in the western and central parts of New York state. Dr. Kikkert earned a PhD and MS degree in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BS degree in Horticulture from the University of Maryland-College Park. She has been employed at Cornell University for more than 30 years, and currently serves as the Team Leader for the CCE-Cornell Vegetable Program.