Carmine Napolitano has over 10 years of experience in horticulture production and management, specializing in specialty crops. He holds a B.S. in Horticultural Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work experience includes supervising ornamental container farms and hop farms, as well as roles testing plant varieties, supervising crews, and completing tasks like irrigation maintenance and pest control. He has skills in plant identification, agricultural machinery operation, soil and growing media sciences, and computer programs like Excel and Word.
If you are a Poultry Farm having GP/P Operation, Hatchery or Commercial Broiler, Chicken Processing Unit, Food Retail then you should must see this presentation.
If you are a Poultry Farm having GP/P Operation, Hatchery or Commercial Broiler, Chicken Processing Unit, Food Retail then you should must see this presentation.
Case study presentation at CTA Workshop on “Climate Change Solutions that Work for farmers” : Improving farmers resilience to climate change in mountainous areas of southern Ethiopia through the introduction and diffusion of practices integrating soil and water conservation and diversified fodder production
By Getamesay Demeke
(August 2015)
Implementation of an enterprise social networking platform to integrate social media and communications capabilities with business processes. This ambitious shift was supported by structured user-testing, persona modelling, and research into everyday work scenarios.
The project has endeavored to anticipate the requirements of lawyers and staff to deliver the best legal services in and out of the office, through our new digital workplace.
Case study presentation at CTA Workshop on “Climate Change Solutions that Work for farmers” : Improving farmers resilience to climate change in mountainous areas of southern Ethiopia through the introduction and diffusion of practices integrating soil and water conservation and diversified fodder production
By Getamesay Demeke
(August 2015)
Implementation of an enterprise social networking platform to integrate social media and communications capabilities with business processes. This ambitious shift was supported by structured user-testing, persona modelling, and research into everyday work scenarios.
The project has endeavored to anticipate the requirements of lawyers and staff to deliver the best legal services in and out of the office, through our new digital workplace.
Small companies and informal trade plays an important role in East African agriculture but are typically out of view. This study examines patterns of and incentives for private sector investments and activities in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in East Africa. Building capacity of private sector entities and improving their coordination with the public sector so that smallholders are not excluded may be key to facilitating the scaling up of agricultural innovations that improve food security for smallholders grappling with a changing climate (Jayne et al.
2006; Gyau, 2015).
Tanzania dairy genetics: Matching dairy genetics to smallholder farmers’ inpu...ILRI
Presented by Morris Agaba (Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology) at the Inception workshop of the AgriTT project: Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness for smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, 10-11 June 2014
Restoration Agriculture Business Models - Presented by Mark Shepard and Kevin...DiegoFooter
Restoration Agriculture Development was spawned out of the energy and inspiration of last year’s Permaculture Voices conference. Mark, Jordan, and Kevin, the co-founders of the company, have assembled a team of designers and business professionals to scale and take advantage of the large opportunity within regenerative agriculture. In this talk, these three agripreneurs will be speaking about the business model for Restoration Agriculture Development, and how each of their skillsets have combined to create a potent team.
Topics will include: regenerative agriculture land investment, the future of Restoration Agriculture, impact investments for regenerative agriculture, community development.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com.
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1. Carmine Napolitano
Horticulture Production & Management, Specialty Crops
Napolitano.carmine2@gmail.com
(630) 254-9401
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate, May 2013
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Bachelors of Science in Horticultural Sciences,
concentration in Specialty Crop Production and Management
Relevant coursework: Introduction to Crop Sciences, Farming Systems, Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, Introductory
Soils, Applied Entomology, Introduction to Horticulture, Plant Propagation, Local Food Networks, Woody Plant
Identification, Organic Chemistry, Plant Nutrition, Greenhouse Management and Production, Weed Plant
Identification, Postharvest Handling
Work Experience
Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. Plano, IL October 2015-present
• Supervise a large ornamental container farm producing premium plants with sales ranging from wholesales to
townships like Downers Grove, down to single plant residential retail
• Duties: organize multiple labor groups, complete repairs, maintain electrical and irrigation, control weeds, plant
disease, and insect pressures
• Lots of emphasis on tracking and updating plant inventory system to keep the retail operation properly supplied
Bailey Nurseries, Inc. Production Foreman/Grower Onarga, IL June 2013-June
2015
• Directly engaged and supervised a 110 acre wholesale ornamental container farm that produces high quality
plants with customers such as Costco, Menards, and Lowes
• Duties: organize labor, complete system repairs, lay pipes, maintain electrical, irrigation, and computer systems,
control weeds, plant disease, and insect pressures
• Tested and evaluated trial plant varieties for future company production
Hop Head Farms, LLC. Crew Supervisor/Plant Scout Hickory Corners, MI May-August
2012
• Supervised a crew in the building and growing of a start-up hop farm with a rigorous start-up schedule, going
from a bare corn field to a 15 acre hops farm in a matter of three months with a crew of less than a dozen
• Duties: grade and prepare grow mounds, plant and protect new hop plugs, and fulfill basic maintenance,
streamline crew performance and develop new work techniques
• Experience with hop picker, pelletizer, and packaging machine for harvesting and processing of hops
University of Illinois Plant Care Facility Grower/Growing Media Technician Champaign-Urbana, IL 2010-
2013
• Part-time, 15 hours per week, during the academic year and full time during the Summers of 2010 and 2011
• Duties: complete requests from researchers and students for greenhouse, lab, and grow chambers, scout for pests
Prime International Trading, Ltd. Floor Clerk Chicago, IL Summers 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009
• Assisted commodity traders at the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile exchange
• Duties: organize and assist commodity traders, record and process trades quickly, resolve trade discrepancies
Skills
Horticultural
• ID plant production issues and correct them, scout for immediate and future pest threats
• Agricultural machinery, including front loader, rototiller, stump remover, mowers, and category 2 and 3 tractors
• Soil sciences, growing medias, HID lights, workplace safety, and growing containers
• Experience at both indoor and outdoor horticultural facilities
2. Computer
• Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word
Language
• Spanish at a conversational level, studied for seven years, used daily at Bailey Nurseries for direction of employees