Richard Klemme is the Associate Dean for Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension, a joint position between UW-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Cooperative Extension, UW-Extension. Associate Dean Klemme oversees Extension programming in agriculture and natural resources statewide, and provides personnel and budget support for CALS specialists.

Dr. Klemme obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Purdue and a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Illinois State University. He has been at UW-Madison since finishing his Ph.D. in 1980, starting as a farm management specialist in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Klemme was named founding director of the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems in 1989, a position he held until he became the Associate Dean on January 1, 2000.