Expertise

Areas of Specialization

  • Agribusiness
  • Marketing
  • Production economics
  • Farm management
  • Finance

As a leading agriculture finance scholar, he has studied land markets, investment decisions, mergers in the financial services industry, the probability of agricultural loan default and loan loss severity, the influence of taxes on farmland, and alternative federal tax systems. His production economics research has investigated issues such as ground water allocation in irrigated crop production, comparison of returns under alternative tillage systems, the costs of risk, interactions of weather soils, and management on corn yields, analysis of the returns to farm equity and assets, and analysis of the optimizing behavior of Kansas farmers, examining the stability of estimates using duality, and examining the application of a new functional forms for estimating production relationships.

Communities
Agriculture, Agriculture Business and Management, Economics
Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Agricultural Economics, 1986
MS, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Agricultural Economics, 1984
BS, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Agricultural Economics and Economics, 1982
Keywords
agricultural economics
Associations
American Agricultural Economics Association