Roger M. Cohee

Roger M. Cohee had an extensive career in Agri-business after graduating from UW-Platteville. He worked in corporate sales and sales management, involving 15 years of plant food production and marketing, 6 years in livestock feed storage equipment marketing, and 16 years in crop protection chemicals.

Roger is a strong supporter of the Student Leadership Conservation Scholarship that he established with his late father, Melville “Mel” Cohee. Mel was a longtime friend of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and one of the early conservationist in Wisconsin and the United States. Mel assisted the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in developing its Soil and Water Conservation Society student chapter in 1966, now the oldest chapter in the Midwest and the second oldest in the United States.