Joshua Lowe Posner, professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin and an international agricultural expert, died in his home April 3, 2012, of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a disease he battled two years. He was 64. He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Jill Posner of Madison, daughter, Jessica Posner and son-in-law, Steven Brown, of Washington, D.C., and son, Matthew of Brooklyn, N.Y. He had two five-year old granddaughters, Sophia and Isabelle Posner Brown and three siblings, Prudence, Deborah and David Posner, who reside in the New York area.