Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Guelph
vincent@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-3520

Vincent Amanor-Boadu is an assistant professor and director of the Innovation Center at Kansas State University. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada and worked as the Director of Research at the George Morris Centre, an independent agri-food think-tank in Canada. His research initiatives encompass business development and entrepreneurship, strategic management with special emphasis on inter-organizational relationships. Vincent also conducts seminars on change management and mechanisms of governance.

Jason Bergtold
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2004
Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics
JasonBergtold@agecon.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 modelling 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.

Arlo Biere
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1968
Agribusiness
abiere@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4433

Under Dr. Biere’s leadership, the Department’s undergraduate program has grown in the number and quality of students. The program has been structured toward preparing graduates for positions within production agriculture, agribusiness, and the food industries. Dr. Biere teaches agribusiness logistics; a course that integrates logistics with evolving information technology - including e-commerce, emerging management approaches and the demands of a global economy as they all relate to food and agribusiness. Likewise, his research includes the impact of these elements 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@agecon.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 that is delivered via distance. His research program has resulted in more than 60 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 farmland, and alternative federal tax systems. He currently teaches agribusiness financial management in the MAB, and a Ph.D. level course in production economics.

John (Sean) Fox
Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1994
Agricultural Policy, Consumer Demand
seanfox@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4446

With the advent of more technological food safety advancements and increasing legislative mandates, Dr. Fox’s research will continue to grow in importance. Through surveys, non-hypothetical experiments, and retail trials, Dr. Fox measures and analyzes the costs and benefits of food safety regulations and technologies, consumers’ acceptability, and their willingness-to-pay. Recent research includes early determination of consumers’ response to technologies such as meat irradiation and genetic modification of grains, and to animal disease events such as mad cow disease.

Orlen Grunewald
Professor
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1980
Agribusiness Management
ogrunewa@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4443

Dr. Grunewald teaches Computer Decision Tools for Agribusiness in the MAB program. He also teaches undergraduate courses in agribusiness management, agribusiness marketing and computer applications focusing on building business spreadsheets. He has authored a textbook on food and agribusiness management for beginning students. His research activities focus on investigating the impacts of identity-preserved crops and livestock on supply chain management and agribusiness structures.

Kevin Gwinner
Assistant Professor, Marketing and International Business
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1997
kgwinner@ksu.edu
(785) 532-2783

Dr. Gwinner is a faculty member in the Department of Marketing and International Business at K-State. He teaches Marketing Concepts and Research in the MAB program. His research focuses on: the identification and measurement of personal and organizational antecedents impacting various job performance indicators in front-line service employees; customer expectations regarding service employee behaviors during service interactions; and the cognitive and emotional aspects of consumer complaint behaviors and employee response within a service encounter.

Michael Langemeier
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1990
Production Economics
mlange@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1507

Dr. Langemeier’s research projects include the following: an examination of the efficiency and productivity of farms and ranches; an examination of the trade-off between risk adjusted returns and environmental quality indices; and an empirical investigation of the relative importance of economies of scale and scope to farms and ranches. He teaches courses in farm management, production economics, and economic theory, and presents applied research results at seminars and meetings to farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness professionals.

Brian Niehoff
Associate Professor and Management Department Head
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1988
niehoff@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4359

Dr. Niehoff serves as the Head of the Management Department in the K-State College of Business Administration, and teaches Behavioral Management Theory to second year students in the MAB program. He also teaches organizational behavior, organizational training and development, and strategic management at both the undergraduate and graduate level on campus. His research focuses on the topics of leadership, workplace justice, organizational citizenship behavior, and management training & development. He is currently researching comparison of supervisory vs. employee-oriented performance monitoring systems, cross-cultural reactions to discipline, and the effects of leader empowerment on employee citizenship behavior.

Jeffery R. Williams
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1980
Farm Management, Risk Management, Natural Resource Economics
jwilliam@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4491

Dr. Williams is the recipient of several teaching and research awards. He teaches natural resource and environmental economics, risk management, and advanced farm economics. Part of his research examines environmental and agricultural policies and their impact on management strategies. His work extends into the analysis of risk management strategies, natural resource management alternatives, and firm organization.

Michael Woolverton
Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri - Columbia, 1978
Grain Marketing, International Trade Policy, and Extension Executive Education
mikewool@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1462

Mike Woolverton's research includes structure and performance of the grain and oilseed marketing system, overseas market development and commodity promotion, risk management in marketing and purchasing grain and oilseed commodities, agribusiness marketing management, and strategic leadership. He teaches a distance-education course in International Agriculture and the Global Economy.

Ag Econ Faculty

Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Guelph
vincent@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-3520

Vincent Amanor-Boadu is an assistant professor and director of the Innovation Center at Kansas State University. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada and worked as the Director of Research at the George Morris Centre, an independent agri-food think-tank in Canada. His research initiatives encompass business development and entrepreneurship, strategic management with special emphasis on inter-organizational relationships. Vincent also conducts seminars on change management and mechanisms of governance.

Joe Arata
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1974
Agribusiness
jarata@agecon.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.

Chatura Aryiaratne
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University 2001
Agric. Production and Farm Mgt., Agric. Cooperatives and Community Development
chatura@ksu.edu
(785) 532-6953

Dr. Ariyaratne’s research focuses on explaining productivity and financial differences in agricultural cooperatives and farms in the USA. He has extensive knowledge on international agricultural and Agribusiness development. He has done research on plantation agriculture in Sri Lanka. He has done research relevance to the Australian horticulture and irrigation technologies. He is an expert on use of various quantitative techniques in agricultural economics and agribusiness research.

Andrew Barkley
Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1988
International Trade; Organic Food; Agricultural and Public Policy
barkley@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4426

Dr. Barkley teaches two courses: (1) an entry-level course, Principles of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, and (2) a senior-level course in International Agricultural Trade. Dr. Barkley’s research interests are in international trade, organic 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
abarnaby@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1515

Dr. Barnaby provides educational programs on crop insurance, government commodity programs, and risk throughout Kansas. His work emphasizes the development of alternative public policies for crop disaster protection. For example, he developed the Crop Revenue Coverage, which is a nationally-available insurance contract for farmers. CRC currently provides more than $10 billion of coverage for America’s farmers. Other research explores the impact of government commodity programs.

David Barton
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1974
Cooperatives, Agribusiness, Marketing, Finance
barton@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1508

As director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, Dr. Barton manages (1) student education programs including scholarships and internships, (2) outreach programs including the annual CEO Roundtable, the annual symposium on cooperative issues and the director certification program curriculum, and (3) research projects on cooperative finance, equity management, governance, strategy and leader performance and compensation.

Jason Bergtold
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2004
Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics
JasonBergtold@agecon.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 modelling 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.

Arlo Biere
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1968
Agribusiness
abiere@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4433

Under Dr. Biere’s leadership, the department’s undergraduate program has grown in the number and quality of students. The program has been structured toward preparing graduates for positions within production agriculture, agribusiness and the food industries. His research focuses on supply chains in food and agriculture and includes the impact of those elements on the competitiveness of U.S. agribusiness.

Michael Boland
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1996
Agribusiness Management, Cooperatives
mboland@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4449

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. 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.

Robert Burton, Jr.
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1982
Farm and Ranch Management
bburton@agecon.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 and agricultural health and safety.

John Crespi
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California-Davis, 2000
Agricultural Marketing, Industrial Organization
jcrespi@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-3357

Dr. Crespi’s research focuses on product differentiation issues in food and agriculture. His interests include analyses of 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 courses in agribusiness management and 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
TimothyDalton@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-6941

Dr. Dalton’s research and teaching focuses on international agricultural development in less-developed countries around the world. He studies how new varieties of sorghum, rice and maize affect food productivity, production risk management, and nutrition as well as the impact of natural resource degradation—primarily soils and agricultural biodiversity—on agriculture and human well being. Dr. Dalton has worked in western, central, eastern and southern Africa as well as southeast Asia.

Kevin Dhuyvetter
Professor
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1999
Production, Marketing
kdhuyvet@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-3527

Dr. Dhuyvetter assists farmers throughout Kansas with risk and return assessment of alternative methods for crops and livestock and their impact on the environment. He also works extensively with land-related issues such as buying and leasing land. Current research and extension efforts are examining relationships between energy prices and crop inputs, estimating crop yield and fertility relationships, economics of no-tillage, and the economics of various dairy production 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 80 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
bflinchb@agecon.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.

John (Sean) Fox
Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1994
Agricultural Policy, Consumer Demand
seanfox@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4446

With the advent of more technological food safety advancements and increasing legislative mandates, Dr. Fox’s research will continue to grow in importance. Through surveys, non-hypothetical experiments, and retail trials, Dr. Fox measures and analyzes the costs and benefits of food safety regulations and technologies, consumers’ acceptability, and their willingness-to-pay. Recent research includes early determination of consumers’ response to technologies such as meat irradiation and genetic modification of grains, and to animal disease events such as mad cow disease.

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
bgolden@agecon.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@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4443

Dr. Grunewald teaches undergraduate courses in agribusiness management, agribusiness marketing and computer applications focusing on building business spreadsheets. He has authored a textbook on food and agribusiness management for beginning students. His research activities focus on investigating the impacts of identity-preserved crops and livestock on supply chain management and agribusiness structures.

Cesar Guvele
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Technical Advisor/Consultant - USAID/USDA Sudan Group
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1998
International Development, Resource Management
CGuvele@ourtownusa.net

Dr. Guvele’s main research interest is the efficient use of the waters of the Niles. Also studies issues of poverty reduction, peace and disaster management, and governmental interaction.

Hikaru Hanawa-Peterson
Asscoiate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2001
Marketing, Consumer Demand, Risk Analysis
hhp@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1509

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 safety and labeling, and sustainable agriculture. Dr. Peterson teaches courses in risk management and agricultural marketing.

Rodney Jones
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 1995
Livestock Production, Economics, General Farm Management
jonesrd@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1957

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
Ph.D. Kansas State University, 1995
Crop and Farm Management
tkastens@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 626-9000

Dr. Kastens uses and evaluates analytical techniques such as econometrics and flexible functional form modeling to research the efficiency of futures markets, the economics of precision agriculture, and hay price forecasting. He also analyzes crop budgeting and profitability, farm and machinery investment alternatives, and production and price risk management.

Michael Langemeier
Professor
Ph.D. Purdue University, 1990
Farm Management
mlange@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1507

Dr. Langemeier's extension and research interests include benchmarking of technical and economic performance, strategic positioning, and economies of size. He teaches courses in production economics and economic theory, and presents applied research results at seminars and meetings to farmers, ranchers, agribusiness professionals, and economists.

John Leatherman
Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1995
Local Government
jleather@agecon.ksu.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
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2005
International Trade, Development, Econometrics
xhli@agecon.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.

James Mintert
Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri, 1986
Livestock Marketing
jmintert@ksu.edu
(785) 532-1518

Dr. Mintert helps farmers and ranchers improve their marketing skills through his efforts as an extension specialist. Specifically, he researches and publicizes forecasts of cattle and hog prices and conducts workshops throughout Kansas on the marketing of fed cattle, and on futures and options. He also extends his knowledge of livestock marketing by studying consumers’ willingness-to-pay for certain quality characteristics and evaluating price risk management strategies throughout the supply chain for various meat cuts.

David Norman
Professor
Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1965
International Agricultural Development
dnorman@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4484

Dr. Norman has spent 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, which he helped develop early in his career. He currently does short term assignments with many developmental and donor agencies in Asia, Africa, the South Pacific and Latin America. At KSU, Dr. Norman strives to promote a global dimension in the university and provide expertise and experiences for students in their research and in the classroom.

Jeffrey Peterson
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2000
Resource and Environmental Economics, Production Economics
jpeters@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4487

Dr. Peterson’s research focuses on the interaction between agriculture and natural resources. He has studied the relationship between environmental policies and trade, the rate of farmland development at the rural-urban fringe, and voluntary incentive-based policies for farmers to manage the environmental resources on their own farms. Much of his current research is concerned with water use and water policy in the Great Plains. He teaches microeconomics and graduate courses in resource and environmental economics.

Alexander Saak
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 2001
Industrial Organization, Agribusiness and Marketing, Economics of Information and Uncertainty
alexsaak@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-3334

Dr. Saak’s research includes development and performance of agricultural product grading systems, marketing and trade, risk and insurance, adoption of new technologies and spatial externalities in farm-level production decisions, and groundwater use in farming. He teaches a graduate course in International Trade and Agricultural Markets.

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 and grain industries. His research focuses on improving commodity market efficiency by investigating price discovery methods, improving market coordinating mechanisms, understanding the impact of promotions on commodity prices, and forecasting commodity prices. He is published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Schroeder also teaches an undergraduate course in price analysis and forecasting.

Bryan Schurle
Professor and Agricultural Economics Department Head
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1977
Risk Management, Production Economics
bschurle@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4489

He teaches finance, linear programming, econometrics, and principles of agricultural economics. His teaching interests include the application of computer techniques to agribusiness problems. He also applies mathematical modeling and computer tools to his research. Dr. Schurle’s research includes risk issues and the relationship between size of operation and risk.

Jeffery R. Williams
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1980
Farm Management, Risk Management, Natural Resource Economics
jwilliam@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4491

Dr. Williams is the recipient of several teaching and research awards. He teaches natural resource and environmental economics, risk management, and advanced farm economics. Part of his research examines environmental and agricultural policies and their impact on management strategies. His work extends into the analysis of risk management alternatives, and firm organization.

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.

Michael Woolverton
Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri - Columbia, 1978
Grain Marketing, International Trade Policy, Extension Executive Education
mikewool@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-1462

Dr. Woolverton’s research includes structure and performance of the grain and oilseed marketing system, overseas market development and commodity promotion, risk management in marketing and purchasing grain and oilseed commodities, agribusiness marketing management, and strategic leadership. He teaches a distance education course in International Agriculture and the Global Economy.

Tian Xia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 2004
Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, & International Trade
tianxia@agecon.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.

Staff

Lynnette Brummett
Program Coordinator
M.S. Kansas State University, 1991
College Student Personnel Services
Lynnett@ksu.edu
(785) 532-4495

As Program Coordinator, Lynnette Brummett, 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. Brummett also assists with the course ‘Seminar in Agricultural Economics Analysis,’ a thesis completion course in the MAB taught by Dr. Allen Featherstone.

Mary Bowen
Assistant Program Coordinator
B.S. Kansas State University, 1996
Public Relations and Sociology
mjbowen@agecon.ksu.edu
(785) 532-4435

As Assistant Program Coordinator, Mary Bowen, 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.