The smell of success

Dr. Kent McKenzie

Oroville, California

• B.A., Biology, Willamette University. M.S.,

Agronomy, University of California, Davis. • Ph.D., Genetics with a minor in Plant

Physiology, University of California, Davis. • Retired December 2020 as director and plant breeder at the California Cooperative Rice

Research Foundation-Rice Experiment Station in Biggs. Currently providing consulting support to CCRRF and Albaugh LLC. • 2021 California Rice Industry Award. • 2014 Rice Industry Award. • Member of the Crop Science Society of

America, American Society of Agronomy,

American Association of Cereal Chemists and

Rice Technical Working Group. • Serves on the California Rice Certifi cation

Committee and the Research and Technology

Committee for the California Rice Commission. • Serves on several committees and task forces for the USA Rice Federation. • Active participant — Temperate Rice Research

Consortium. • Wife, Kathryn, DVM. Two sons: Lt. Cmdr.

Douglas McKenzie USN (wife, Elizabeth, and three daughters: Isabella, Juliana and Sophia) and John Ross McKenzie (wife, Laura).