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About Us
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| Faculty & Staff | Advisory Board | Student/Alumni Contacts | Partners | K-State |
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| MAB Faculty | MAB Staff | AgEcon Faculty |
Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Guelph, 1992
vincent@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3520
Vincent Amanor-Boadu is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, and director of the Ag Innovation Center at Kansas State University. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. He worked as the Director of Research at the George Morris Centre, Canada’s premier independent agri-food think-tank, where he led research to enhance the agri-food sector’s competitiveness. He was a managing director of AgriFood Innovations, an agri-food technology commercialization services company he co-founded. His current research initiatives encompass entrepreneurship and business development and growth strategy, and strategic management, with special emphasis on inter-organizational relationships and governance. Vincent sits on a number of corporate boards. He says balancing academics with service to industry ensures his ability to bring real-world situations his classroom to illuminate economics and management concepts, and bring research-based solutions to address complex organizational challenges.
Jason Bergtold
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2004
Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics
bergtold@ksu.edu
(785) 532-0984
Dr. Bergtold’s research includes: the economics of adopting intensive conservation production practices and systems at the farm level; the impact of bio-energy alternatives and feedstock production on-farm; the interaction between agricultural practices, conservation policy and the environment at the farm level; and the development of applied discrete choice econometric modeling techniques. In addition, he has completed research examining the estimation of large demand systems and the international trade of peanuts. Dr. Bergtold teaches optimization techniques and methods at the graduate level and an introductory agricultural economics course.
Arlo Biere
Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1968
Agribusiness
biere@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4433
Dr. Biere teaches two freshmen-level courses (agricultural economics and agribusiness orientation and decision tools for agricultural economics and agribusiness), two upper-division undergraduate courses (agricultural market structures and agribusiness logistics) and one MAB course (applied agribusiness logistics). His research focuses on supply chain issues in food and agriculture and the impacts of those issues on the competitiveness of U.S. agribusinesses.
Allen Featherstone
Professor and MAB Program Director
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1986
Finance, Land Markets, Production Economics
afeather@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4441
The department’s graduate program has experienced strong growth under the direction of Dr. Featherstone. He guided the development of the Master in Agribusiness degree. His research program has resulted in more than 115 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. As a leading agriculture finance scholar, Dr. Featherstone has assisted the industry on mergers, loan loss severity, the influence of taxes on farm land, and alternative federal tax systems. He currently teaches agribusiness financial management and ‘Seminar in Agricultural Economics Analysis,’ a thesis completion course in the MAB.
John (Sean) Fox
Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1994
Agricultural Policy, Consumer Demand
seanfox@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4446
John (Sean) Fox is a native of Ireland and has been on the faculty at K-State since 1994. His B.S. in Agricultural Science is from University College Dublin and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University. Currently a Professor of Agricultural Economics, he has taught classes in Agricultural Policy, International Trade, Futures Markets, Managerial Economics and Applied Econometrics. His research is primarily focused on non-market valuation and involves surveys, market experiments, and retail trials in an effort to quantify consumer valuation of food safety and response to new food products, technologies or information. His work has examined demand for food innovations such as irradiation, cloning, guaranteed tenderness in steaks, and milk from animals treated with bST.
Kevin Gwinner
Professor and Marketing Department Head, College of Business Administration
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1997
Marketing Management, Concepts and Research, Services Marketing
kgwinner@ksu.edu
(785) 532-2783
Dr. Gwinner is the Head of the Marketing Department at K-State. He teaches Marketing Concepts and Research in the MAB program. His research focuses on: improving and managing the performance of customer-contact employees, organizational citizenship behaviors, consumer relationship benefits and perceptions of rapport, corporate sponsorship of sporting events and electronic word-of-mouth.
Keith Harris
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, 2012
Economics and Agribusiness Strategy
kdharris@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3918
His research interests include economics and agribusiness firms, biotechnology clusters, and the sociology of food and agriculture. His current research focus is on agribusiness strategy that emphasizes the optimization of linkages between the firm and its surrounding business environment. His teaching emphasizes a key element of how to compete within the context of a dynamic agricultural sector. Harris has 20 years of supply chain management experience that includes agricultural commodity trading, supply chain strategy and global purchasing with Fortune 500 companies in the food industry.
Bryan Schurle
Professor
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1977
Risk Management, Production Economics
bschurle@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4489
Dr. Schurle has taught courses on finance, optimizing techniques, risk management, and principles of agricultural economics. His interests include the application of computer techniques to agribusiness problems. Dr. Schurle’s research and extension efforts are oriented to finance and farm management issues.
Bill Turnley
Professor
Ph.D. University of South Carolina, 1996
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
turnley@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1339
Bill Turnley is a professor in the Department of Management and the Forrer Chair of Business Ethics. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters in Business Administration, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, all from the University of South Carolina. Bill teaches courses in Organizational Behavior, Business Ethics and Human Resource Management and is the director of the ConocoPhillips Excellence in Business Ethics Initiative. In addition, he is an active researcher in the areas of psychological contracts, organizational citizenship behavior, and impression management in organizations.
Jeff Williams
Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1980
Farm Management, Risk Management, Natural Resource Economics
jwilliam@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4491
Dr. Williams has worked with several MAB students that have completed economic analyses of investing in new technologies for their agribusiness firms. He also teaches natural resource and environmental economics for undergraduates, and advanced farm economics for graduate students. Some of his current research includes best management strategies for improving water quality and reducing sedimentation of Kansas reservoirs, evaluating the risk versus returns from alternative cropping and tillage strategies, and economic issues of biomass production. He is also the recipient of several teaching and research awards.
Christine Wilson
Professor and
Assistant Dean of Academic Programs, College of Agriculture
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2001
Agribusiness, Finance, Marketing, Farm Management
cwilson1@ksu.edu
(785) 532-6151
Dr. Wilson’s research interests include the areas of agribusiness, farm management, agricultural finance, marketing, and demand. Her research has examined factors affecting lenders loan decision making, agricultural input market segments and the buying behavior of producers and consumers, and the valuation of financial records with experimental auctions. She has taught courses in finance, risk, agribusiness marketing management, farm business accounting, and research methods. Prior to joining K-State in August 2008, Dr. Wilson was a faculty member at Purdue University.
Deborah Kohl
Program Coordinator
M.S. Kansas State University, 2002
dkohl@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4495
Deborah is the Program Coordinator for the MAB program. She manages the day-to-day activities of the Master of Agribusiness program including student recruitment, budget management, Industry Advisory Board interaction and communication with enrolled students. Deborah also assists with the course “Seminar in Agricultural Economics Analysis,” a thesis completion course in the MAB taught by Dr. Allen Featherstone. She completed an M.S. in 2002 at Kansas State University in Secondary Education.
Mary Bowen
Program Associate
B.S. Kansas State University, 1996
Public Relations and Sociology
mjbowen@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4435
As Program Associate, Mary Bowen, assists in coordination of and manages activities of the Master of Agribusiness program including communication with applicants, enrolled students, alumni and faculty of the program. Bowen also manages the program’s marketing, special events and international agribusiness tours. She completed a Master’s of Professional Studies in Organizational and Professional Communication (Public Relations and Marketing) from the University of Denver.
Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Guelph, 1992
vincent@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3520
Vincent Amanor-Boadu is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, and director of the Ag Innovation Center at Kansas State University. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. He worked as the Director of Research at the George Morris Centre, Canada’s premier independent agri-food think-tank, where he led research to enhance the agri-food sector’s competitiveness. He was a managing director of AgriFood Innovations, an agri-food technology commercialization services company he co-founded. His current research initiatives encompass entrepreneurship and business development and growth strategy, and strategic management, with special emphasis on inter-organizational relationships and governance. Vincent sits on a number of corporate boards. He says balancing academics with service to industry ensures his ability to bring real-world situations his classroom to illuminate economics and management concepts, and bring research-based solutions to address complex organizational challenges.
Joe Arata
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1974
Agribusiness
joea@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4935
Dr. Arata researches the financial structures of processing and retail firms; the roles of a firm’s capital constraints and access to capital in determining the value added to commodities; and the application of fourth generation activity based costing to agribusiness firms. Prior to joining the faculty at K-State, Dr. Arata was vice president at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets where he managed the risk level and the finance structure for commodity inventories.
Andrew Barkley
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1988
Agricultural & Public Policy
barkley@ksu.edu
(785) 477-1174
Dr. Barkley teaches two courses: (1) intermediate microeconomics, and (2) an introductory honors course in agricultural economics. Dr. Barkley’s research interests are in agriculture and related public policy issues. He received a B.A. from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught courses in economics at the University of Chicago, Kansas State University, Quaid-I-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, the University of Arizona, and the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
Art Barnaby
Professor
Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 1981
Finance, Government Programs, Crop Insurance and Risk
barnaby@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1515
Dr. Barnaby provides educational programs on crop insurance, government commodity programs, and risk throughout Kansas and the USA. His work emphasizes the development of alternative public policies for crop disaster protection. His work with the private sector developed the first revenue insurance contract in 1996. Revenue insurance is a nationally-available insurance contract for farmers. Revenue Protection currently provides more than $10 billion of coverage for America’s farmers. Other research explores the impact of government commodity programs.
David Barton
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1974
Cooperatives, Agribusiness, Marketing, Finance
dbarton@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1508
Dr. Barton is Professor Emeritus of Agribusiness Management and Director Emeritus of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center. He currently is semi-retired and works part-time on cooperative agribusiness research and education programs in the areas of finance, governance, strategy, and human resources to assist companies, executives and boards of directors improve performance.
Jason Bergtold
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2004
Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics
bergtold@ksu.edu
(785) 532-0984
Dr. Bergtold’s research includes: the economics of adopting intensive conservation production practices and systems at the farm level; the impact of bio-energy alternatives and feedstock production on-farm; the interaction between agricultural practices, conservation policy and the environment at the farm level; and the development of applied discrete choice econometric modeling techniques. In addition, he has completed research examining the estimation of large demand systems and the international trade of peanuts. Dr. Bergtold teaches optimization techniques and methods at the graduate level and an introductory agricultural economics course.
Arlo Biere
Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1968
Agribusiness
biere@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4433
Dr. Biere teaches two freshmen-level courses (agricultural economics and agribusiness orientation and decision tools for agricultural economics and agribusiness), two upper-division undergraduate courses (agricultural market structures and agribusiness logistics) and one MAB course (applied agribusiness logistics). His research focuses on supply chain issues in food and agriculture and the impacts of those issues on the competitiveness of U.S. agribusinesses.
Michael Boland
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1996
Agribusiness Management, Cooperatives
boland@umn.edu
(612) 625-3013
Michael Boland provides information to agribusinesses and cooperatives for use in analyzing alternative managerial decisions. This information is made available through a variety of outlets including case studies, applied publications, and scholarly journals. He has worked or lectured in more than 60 countries on various aspects of agribusiness topics. Before joining the faculty, Dr. Boland gained diverse experience in agribusiness working for a local farm supply cooperative, a regional cooperative, and a state cooperative council.
Brian Briggemann
Associate Professor & Arthur Capper Cooperative Center
Ph.D. Purdue University, 2006
Finance, Agribusiness and Cooperative Management, Marketing
bbrigg@ksu.edu
(785) 532-2573
Briggeman earned his bachelor’s degree in agribusiness from K-State in 2000. He received his master’s degree in agricultural economics in 2002 from Texas A&M University. In 2006, he completed his Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Purdue University. Prior to K-State, Briggeman worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - Omaha Branch. His research interests include agricultural finance, cooperative and agribusiness management, farm household decision making and macroeconomics.
Robert Burton, Jr.
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1982
Farm and Ranch Management
bburton@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4436
Dr. Burton led the distance education movement within the department through his undergraduate Farm and Ranch Management course. Dr. Burton has participated in disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, often focusing on risk and return in whole-farm or ranch management. Most recently he has focused his research on farm land ownership as a retirement strategy, agricultural health and safety, and reduced- and no-till cropping systems in Western Kansas.
John Crespi
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Ph.D. University of California-Davis, 2000
Agricultural Marketing, Industrial Organization
jcrespi@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3357
Dr. Crespi’s research focuses on product differentiation issues in food and agriculture. His interests include analyses of industry competition, product-quality differences that affect commodity promotion, food safety regulations, and the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms. He has worked as a consultant for several commodity boards performing studies to measure the effectiveness of industry-financed generic advertising. Dr. Crespi teaches a course in agribusiness marketing, as well as a team-taught course in quantitative methods for agricultural economists.
Tim Dalton
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1996
International Economic Development; Agricultural Production
tdalton@ksu.edu
(785) 532-6941
Dr. Dalton’s research and teaching focuses on international agricultural development in lower income countries. He studies how new crop varieties affect food productivity and production risk management and the impact of natural resource degradation on agricultural development. Dr. Dalton has worked throughout Africa and he is currently researching the economics of drought tolerant maize in southern and eastern Africa.
Kevin Dhuyvetter
Professor and Extension State Leader
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1999
Production, Marketing
kcd@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3527
Dr. Dhuyvetter assists producers and agribusinesses with risk and return assessment associated with crop and livestock production and marketing. He also works extensively with land-related issues such as buying and leasing land. Current research and extension efforts are examining factors impacting profitability differences between crop and livestock producers, analyzing factors affecting feeder cattle prices and basis, machinery costs, economics of no-tillage and precision ag-related technologies, and the costs associated with animal identification and traceability systems.
Allen Featherstone
Professor and MAB Program Director
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1986
Finance, Land Markets, Production Economics
afeather@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4441
The department’s graduate program has experienced strong growth under the direction of Dr. Featherstone. He guided the development of the Master in Agribusiness degree. His research program has resulted in more than 115 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. As a leading agriculture finance scholar, Dr. Featherstone has assisted the industry on mergers, loan loss severity, the influence of taxes on farm land, and alternative federal tax systems.
Barry Flinchbaugh
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1971
Food and Agricultural Policy
flinchba@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1505
Dr. Flinchbaugh represents the agricultural community through his active participation in the development of U.S. agricultural policy. His service on numerous national task forces, boards of directors, and advisory groups has allowed him to provide input on domestic food and agriculture policy. He served as Chairman of the Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture authorized in the 1996 FAIR ACT. Flinchbaugh currently serves as Chairman of the board of the Farm Foundation.
John (Sean) Fox
Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1994
Agricultural Policy, Consumer Demand
seanfox@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4446
John (Sean) Fox is a native of Ireland and has been on the faculty at K-State since 1994. His B.S. in Agricultural Science is from University College Dublin and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University. Currently a Professor of Agricultural Economics, he has taught classes in Agricultural Policy, International Trade, Futures Markets, Managerial Economics and Applied Econometrics. His research is primarily focused on non-market valuation and involves surveys, market experiments, and retail trials in an effort to quantify consumer valuation of food safety and response to new food products, technologies or information. His work has examined demand for food innovations such as irradiation, cloning, guaranteed tenderness in steaks, and milk from animals treated with bST.
Dan Glickman
Adjunct Professor
J.D. George Washington University
Dan Glickman has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, including 18 years in the United States House of Representatives, where he served as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In 1995, President Bill Clinton named Glickman Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He serves on the boards of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; the Food Research and Action Center; and the Farm Foundation. He has a BA in history from the University of Michigan and a JD from George Washington University.
Bill Golden
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2005
Natural Resources, Farm Management
bgolden@ksu.edu
(254) 968-8010
Dr. Golden’s general interests include research in natural resources and farm management issues related to irrigation and the production of agricultural commodities. Specifically focusing on evaluating water policy and usage, and the impacts these have on the environment, producers and the regional economy.
Orlen Grunewald
Professor
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1980
Agribusiness Management
ogrunewa@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4443
Dr. Grunewald teaches agribusiness management and commodity futures and options in the undergraduate curriculum. He has authored the textbook, Introduction to Food and Agribusiness Management, that he uses in the agribusiness management course. His research activities focus on investigating farm inefficiency. Dr. Grunewald was born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Wisconsin and Kentucky, respectively.
Cesar Guvele
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1998
International Development, Resource Management, Interagency Coordination
cguvele@cox.net
Dr. Guvele has worked in South Sudan on USAID/USDA programs before the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to end the civil war to enable war affected communities to try to fend for themselves with minimum external hand out relief; and after the CPA to rebuild intergovernmental and nongovernmental actions on reducing poverty. He has served as a Senior Advisor on the main USAID’s Agricultural Program (Farming, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM)) in South Sudan through Management Systems International (MSI). Dr. Guvele is currently a Senior Associate with Abt Associates assigned to build the farm level agricultural information/data base for USAID’s funded agricultural projects in South Sudan.
Gregg Hadley
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2003
Agriculture and Natural Resources
ghadley@ksu.edu
(785) 532-5838
He works in agriculture and natural resources for K-State Research and Extension. Hadley earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics at Purdue University in 1989. He earned his master’s degree in 2001 and Ph.D. in 2003, both in agricultural economics from Michigan State University. Prior to coming to K-State, Hadley worked as an associate professor and extension farm management specialist at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls.
Keith Harris
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, 2012
Economics and Agribusiness Strategy
kdharris@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3918
His research interests include economics and agribusiness firms, biotechnology clusters, and the sociology of food and agriculture. His current research focus is on agribusiness strategy that emphasizes the optimization of linkages between the firm and its surrounding business environment. His teaching emphasizes a key element of how to compete within the context of a dynamic agricultural sector. Harris has 20 years of supply chain management experience that includes agricultural commodity trading, supply chain strategy and global purchasing with Fortune 500 companies in the food industry.
Hikaru Hanawa-Peterson
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2001
Marketing, Consumer Demand, Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems, Risk Analysis
hhp@ksu.edu
(785) 477-0726
Dr. Peterson’s research focuses on understanding marketing and risk management decisions in food and agriculture. Previous studies examined marketing issues related to small-scale specialty crops, large-scale commercial crops, the dairy industry, and the organic industry. Her interests include consumer issues, such as food origin and labeling, and sustainable agriculture. Dr. Peterson teaches courses in price analysis and research methods.
Nathan Hendricks
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, 2011
Natural Resources
nph@ksu.edu
(785) 477-5430
Nathan Hendricks’ research analyzes agricultural supply response and the effect of agricultural and environmental policies. His previous research has investigated agricultural supply dynamics, the cost-effectiveness of alternative water conservation policies, the production effects of agricultural domestic support programs, and econometric estimation of dynamic panels. He teaches an undergraduate course on international and environmental issues in agriculture and a graduate team-taught course in quantitative methods.
Gregory Ibendahl
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Farm Management and Agricultural Finance
ibendahl@ksu.edu
(785) 477-2071
Prior to joining the K-State faculty, Dr. Ibendahl served as an associate extension professor at Mississippi State University. His specialty areas are farm management and agricultural finance. Ibendahl earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in agricultural economics. He also has an MBA from Northern Illinois University. His major focus is working with the Kansas Farm Management Association.
Rodney Jones
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 1995
Livestock Production, Economics, General Farm Management
rodney.jones@okstate.edu
(580) 237-7677
Dr. Jones conducts research and educational programs in the areas of livestock production economics and farm management. Examples include continuous economic evaluation of various cattle feeding and grazing strategies, as well as swine and sheep production alternatives. He studies the relative profitability and economic efficiency of alternative production systems and management strategies, and evaluates factors that contribute the overall economic risk facing farmers and ranchers. Dr. Jones assists rural business managers in the development of strategic business and transition plans.
Terry Kastens
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1995
Crop and Farm Management
tkastens@kastensinc.com
(785) 626-9000
As an emeritus extension agricultural economist, Kastens strives to increase the profitability of those involved in production agriculture, especially in crops production. His main areas of emphasis are land ownership and leasing, machinery management, and technology adoption. He is especially competent in the application of unconventional statistical predictive modeling techniques, for example, neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, and entropy. The purpose is always to generate more accurate mathematical models that help producers, investors, and other agribusiness decision makers increase profit and manage risk.
David Lambert
Professor and Agricultural Economics Department Head
Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1985
lambertd@ksu.edu
(785) 313-0866
Dr. Lambert earned a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from Oregon State University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, Davis. Prior to his term at K-State, he was Department Chair at North Dakota State University and began his career on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1984. His background includes teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in microeconomics and quantitative methods, conducting applied economics research projects, and mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate students. He has extensive experience in middle management in higher education. His primary research area is production economics.
John Leatherman
Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1995
Local Government
jleather@k-state.edu
(785) 532-4492
Dr. Leatherman delivers outreach education programs and conducts applied research related to local economic development policy and practice; public finance and public service provision; and environmental/water quality and local/regional planning. His research interests include state and local public finance; state, regional and local economic development policy; the use of analytical tools (e.g., economic and fiscal impact analysis) to improve local decision-making; and the creation of advanced regional economic models for policy analysis.
Xianghong Li
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2005
International Trade, Development, Econometrics
xhli@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4913
Dr. Li’s research interests include international trade, development, and applied econometrics. She has conducted research on evaluating trade patterns in various sectors, examining prevailing trade theories, assessing comparative advantage and international competitiveness, and analyzing the impacts of agricultural trade policies on trade flows.
Nina Lilja
Associate Professort and Director of International Agricultural Programs
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1996
nlilja@ksu.edu
(785) 532-5627
As Director of International Agricultural Programs (IAP) in the College of Agriculture at K-State, Lilja is responsible for the activities related to international scholars, faculty exchanges and coordination of research partnerships for the COA. Prior to joining K-State she spent 12 years in working for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural research (CGIAR). She was stationed in West Africa and Latin America and she has lead and evaluated global agricultural research projects aimed at poverty alleviation.
Rich Llewelyn
Extension Assistant
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1995
Crop Production and Cropping Systems, Farm Management and Risk, Food Market Integration, International Development
rvl@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1504
Dr. Llewelyn’s research interests include risk analysis of cropping and tillage systems, production efficiency, production function analysis, and international development. A graduate of K-State with a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1995, he spent 10 years teaching economics and working in rural and urban community development in East Java, Indonesia before returning to Kansas in 2006 to work with the AgManager.info website and departmental extensions conferences and outreach. He has also taught the “Price Analysis and Forecasting” class for undergraduates.
David Norman
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1965
International Agricultural Development
dnorman@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4484
Dr. Norman has spent more than 20 years working in national agricultural research systems in Africa (Nigeria and Botswana). Based on this experience, his interests continue to focus on interdisciplinary research and on participatory approaches to agricultural development based on the principles of farming systems research and extension. He currently does short term assignments with many developmental and donor agencies in Asia, Africa, the South Pacific and Latin America.
Daniel O’Brien
Extension Agricultural Economist - Associate Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1993
Grain Market Supply-Demand & Price Analysis, Grain Based & Biomass Bioenergy Economics, Grain Industry Transportation and Organization, and Crop Production and Farm Management Issues
dobrien@ksu.edu
(785) 462-6281
Dr. O’Brien’s research interests include analysis of feedgrain, wheat and oilseed markets, the economics of biofuels production, the structure and performance of the grain and oilseed marketing system, risk management in grain marketing, and irrigated and dryland cropping systems in western Kansas. In his Extension responsibilities he provides analysis of grain market supply-demand factors and prices, as well as grain market price risk management strategies. He also provides analysis of western Kansas irrigated and dryland crop enterprise profitability and cropland leasing arrangements.
Jeffrey Peterson
Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2000
Resource and Environmental Economics
jpeters@ksu.edu
(785) 477-0924
Dr. Peterson conducts research and teaching in the field of environmental and resource economics. His research focuses on environmental policy analysis, emphasizing the roles that hidden information and uncertainty play in individual policy responses. Many of the applications of his research have been at interface between agriculture and the environment. Major research topics have included groundwater extraction, payment for environmental service contracts, and agricultural land use responses to climate change.
Ted Schroeder
Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1986
Livestock Marketing, Price Analysis
tcs@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4488
Dr. Schroeder’s research on livestock marketing and price analysis provides information and direction for the livestock industry. His research focuses on improving commodity market efficiency by investigating price discovery methods, market information, improving market coordinating mechanisms, and forecasting. Ted also teaches agricultural marketing.
Bryan Schurle
Professor
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1977
Risk Management, Production Economics
bschurle@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4489
Dr. Schurle has taught courses on finance, optimizing techniques, risk management, and principles of agricultural economics. His interests include the application of computer techniques to agribusiness problems. Dr. Schurle’s research and extension efforts are oriented to finance and farm management issues.
Aleksan Shanoyan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2011
Agribusiness Strategy and Management, International Development, & Applied Econometrics
shanoyan@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4449
Dr. Shanoyan’s research interests are in the area of agribusiness management, agri-food marketing, entrepreneurship, and agricultural development. His current research focusses on issues related to supply chain relationships, contractual arrangements, and vertical coordination in food and agricultural industries. His teaching interests are in strategic analysis and decision making and international marketing. He teaches courses in food and agribusiness management strategies on both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Mykel Taylor
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 2008
Crop Marketing and Farm Management
mtaylor@ksu.edu
(785) 532-3033
Dr. Taylor’s research and extension programs are focused in the areas of crop marketing and farm management. She grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana and attended Montana State University majoring in Agribusiness Management. She has worked in extension positions at both Kansas State University and Washington State University. Some of her current research areas include measuring basis risk for commodity grains, understanding the implications of food safety and country of origin labeling on meat demand, and analyzing trends in Kansas agricultural land values, rental rates, and leasing arrangements.
Glynn Tonsor
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2006
Livestock Marketing
gtonsor@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1518
Dr. Tonsor obtained his Ph.D. from KSU in 2006 and was previously employed at Michigan State University. Glynn’s current efforts are primarily devoted to a range of integrated research and extension activities with particular focus on the cattle/beef and swine/pork industries. His broader interests cover aspects throughout the meat supply chain ranging from production level supply issues to end-user consumer demand issues.
Leah Tsoodle, C.P.A.
Land Use Value Coordinator and Extension Associate
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2005
Land Use
ltsoodle@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1517
Dr. Tsoodle’s research interests include the determinants of the value, use, and leasing structures of land; tenure, succession, and stewardship of land; risk management and policies in water resources; rural development; and finance.
Jeff Williams
Professor
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1980
Farm Management, Risk Management, Natural Resource Economics
jwilliam@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4491
Dr. Williams has worked with several MAB students that have completed economic analyses of investing in new technologies for their agribusiness firms. He also teaches natural resource and environmental economics for undergraduates, and advanced farm economics for graduate students. Some of his current research includes best management strategies for improving water quality and reducing sedimentation of Kansas reservoirs, evaluating the risk versus returns from alternative cropping and tillage strategies, and economic issues of biomass production. He is also the recipient of several teaching and research awards.
Christine Wilson
Professor and
Assistant Dean of Academic Programs, College of Agriculture
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2001
Agribusiness, Finance, Marketing, Farm Management
cwilson1@ksu.edu
(785) 532-6151
Dr. Wilson’s research interests include the areas of agribusiness, farm management, agricultural finance, marketing, and demand. Her research has examined factors affecting lenders loan decision making, agricultural input market segments and the buying behavior of producers and consumers, and the valuation of financial records with experimental auctions. She has taught courses in finance, risk, agribusiness marketing management, farm business accounting, and research methods. Prior to joining K-State in August 2008, Dr. Wilson was a faculty member at Purdue University.
Donald J. Wissman
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1982
Chairman and Senior Economist, DPRA, Inc., Retired
Dr. Wissman was a founding member of DPRA, a private research and consulting firm, in 1971, and helped grow the company from approximately 10 employees to its present size of 170. His 30 years of service to DPRA covered numerous consulting assignments associated with the economics of food and agriculture, and the environment, with a wide variety of public and private clients in over 20 different countries. During his tenure, Dr. Wissman has authored or co-authored over 80 technical research reports.
Tian Xia
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2004
Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, & International Trade
tianxia@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1512
Dr. Xia’s research interests include industrial organization in food and agricultural industries, applied econometrics, and international trade and policy. His current research focuses on industrial organization issues such as contracts and vertical coordination, product differentiation, market structure, and competition in food and agricultural industries. His teaching interests are market structure and organization, econometrics, demand and price analysis, and international trade. He teaches a Ph.D. course in agricultural demand and commodity markets and an undergraduate course in international agricultural trade.
