Professor Eustace O. Beasley

Emeritus Legacy

Eustas Beasley

Professor E. O. Beasley

Assistant Professor Emeritus Extension

Agricultural Machinery

Biographical Sketch

Photo: Beasley in a farm field with the Reduced tillage planter pointing to a part on the machine.

Eustace. O. Beasley, earned his B.A.E.in the department and also worked on the peanut mecanization project while pursuing his M.S.A.E. degree. He received the latter in 1964. In 1964 he resigned his Research Instructorship to join Holding Technical Institute as Instructor. He returned in 1967 as Extension Assistant Professor working in the farm machinery area. Pest control, cucumber, horticultural and general crop mechanization received his attention through the years. He is shown in the photo below with one of his later research and demonstration projects—a reduced tillage planter. It subsoils, beds and plants in one trip on old cropland that has been leveled by discing.

Beasley was also instrumental in carrying out the work of a new approach to agricultural operations now better known as systems engineering with precision. He worked with Professor Humphries on the research and extension demonstration of the wide flat bed and planting system which replaced rough and peaked beds constructed with a mouldboard plows. This system could both bed and seed simultaneously. Conventional plowing, etc., are eliminated, and time and energy are saved.