Carson Roberts grew up on a small farm in southeastern Idaho, where they produced alfalfa, barley, beef, and dairy. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University–Idaho in crop and soil science and a master’s degree from Utah State University in plant science. He then attended Mississippi State University, where he studied conservation cropping systems in cotton. He graduated with his Ph.D. degree in agronomy in 2024. He now resides in north central Missouri, where he works at the University of Missouri as the state extension specialist in forage agronomy.
