Ag Station Names New Superintendent

Rebecca Wiepz is the new superintendent of the Peninsular Agricultural Research Station (PARS), the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 120-acre research farm near Sturgeon Bay.

Wiepz started June 1. She has specialized experience in fruit-crop research and familiarity with PARS, where she’s been a research gardener. Wiepz is returning to the station to oversee a robust orchard-fruit program that serves the state’s fruit-crop industry and UW-Madison researchers. Her work will also consider the distinctive soil structure at PARS to address the Door peninsula’s nutrient-management challenges.

“I’m really excited to be back in Door County,” Wiepz said, “and I’m looking forward to collaborating with university researchers and local growers to help advance and improve the Wisconsin tree-fruit industry.”

Wiepz earned a BS in horticulture at UW-Madison in 2015 and an MS in plant science at Penn State in 2019. She’s the station’s fifth superintendent, replacing Matt Stasiak, who retired in 2019.