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Professor Research Assistant Professor Professor

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Professor & State Extension Leader Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director Professor & ACCC Director
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Professor, MAB Program Director and
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Specializations:
Agricultural and Public Policy
Highlights:
Research interests include agriculture
and related public policy issues
Major Professor to:
William Arce, Steve Arce, Michael Fink,
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Specializations:
Finance, Agribusiness and Cooperative
Management, Marketing
Highlights:
Research interests include agricultural
finance, cooperative and agribusiness
management, farm household decision
making, and macroeconomics
Major Professor to:
Michael Kempke
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Specializations:
Finance, Land Markets, Production
Economics
Highlights:
Guided the development of the Master
in Agribusiness degree; research
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Major Professor to:
Cindy Birchmeier, Curtis Cretin,
Alexandra Jecrois Madrid, Chris
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Specializations:
Production Economics, Environmental
and Natural Resource Economics
Highlights:
Explaining productivity and financial
differences in agricultural cooperatives
and farms in the USA
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Specializations:
Natural Resource Economics, Applied
and Production Econometrics
Highlights:
Production economics, technology
adoption, bioenergy from farm to
refinery, conservation economics, and
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Major Professor to:
Aaron Bartholomay, Grant Good, Kevin
Heikes, Philippe Steffan
Specializations:
International Economic Development;
Agricultural Production
Highlights:
International agricultural development in
lower income countries
Specializations:
Agribusiness, Business
Development, Entrepreneurship
Highlights:
Business development and
entrepreneurship, technology and
innovation, and strategic management
Major Professor to:
Sandra Reid, Christopher Bursiek,
Piercarlo Marletta, Martin Mwansa, Cori
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Specializations:
Finance, Government Programs, Crop
Insurance and Risk
Highlights:
Provides educational programs on crop
insurance, government commodity
programs, and risk throughout Kansas
and the USA
Specializations:
Consumer Demand, Livestock and Meat
Economics, Risk Management, Farm and
Agribusiness Management, Teaching and
Learning
Highlights:
Scholarship of teaching and learning,
consumer demand analysis, and livestock
economics.
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Gregg Hadley Keith Harris Nathan Hendricks

Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
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Cropping Systems, Precision Agriculture
including Big Data, and Farm
Management
Highlights:
Adoption and profitability of precision
agricultural technologies, ownership and
valuation of ‘big data’ with respect to
farm data
Major Professor to:
Jeff Bennett, Michelle Mensing, Britney
Rosburg, Theresa Sisung
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Specializations:
Production Economics, Agricultural
Policy, Land Use, Water
Highlights:
Goal of research program is to better
understand how economic incentives
affect the supply of agricultural
products and the interaction between
agricultural production and the
environment and natural resources
Major Professor to:
Nathan Bartholomew, Frances Bretz
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Specializations:
Natural Resources, Farm Management
Highlights:
Natural resources and farm management
issues related to irrigation and the
production of agricultural commodities
Specializations:
Economics and Agribusiness Strategy
Highlights:
Work analyzes of agrifood supply
chains within the context of a complex
network of differing chain partners and
relationships
Major Professor to:
Kurt Anderson, Ben Blue, Emilie Gein
Specializations:
Food Policy and Industrial Organization
Highlights:
Product differentiation and policy
implications on markets and trades;
multidisciplinary background in
engineering, business administration and
resource economics
Specializations:
Food and Agricultural Policy
Highlights:
Represents the agricultural community
through his active participation in the
development of U.S. agricultural policy.
Specializations:
Farm successionm, human resource
management
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Associate Director for Extension; provides
leadership, direction and management
for the cooperative extension endeavors
of Kansas State University
Major Professor to:
Kayla Lichty
Specializations:
Consumer Demand, Livestock and Meat
Economics, Risk Management, Farm and
Agribusiness Management, Teaching and
Learning
Highlights:
Scholarship of teaching and learning,
consumer demand analysis, and livestock
economics.
Major Professor to:
Jacob Maurer
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Professor and Associate Dean, International
Professor Adjunct Professor Agricultural Programs

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Extension Assistant Extension Agricultural Economist - Associate Professor Associate Professor
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Global Agriculture and Poverty
Alleviation
Highlights:
Responsible for the activities related
to international scholars, faculty
exchanges and coordination of research
partnerships for the COA
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Livestock and Meat Economics
Highlights:
Livestock and animal health issues
that span from the producer through
the meat supply chain to the final
consumer; NBAF
Major Professor to:
Tiffany Ligtenberg, John Sachse
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Specializations:
Natural Resource and Environmental
Economics
Highlights:
Modeling and evaluating systems of
spatial property rights, management
of natural resources that are spatially
mobile, and resource use sustainability
Specializations:
International Trade and Development, Specializations:
Local Government
Econometrics, Consumer Demand
Highlights: Highlights:
International trade and development, Outreach education programs; applied
consumer demand, and applied research of local economic development
policy and practice; public finance
econometrics
and public service provision; and
environmental/water quality and local/
regional planning
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Farm Management and Risk, Food
Highlights:
Market Integration, International
Analysis of feed grain, wheat and oilseed Development
markets, the economics of biofuels
production and the structure and
Highlights:
Research interests include risk analysis of
performance of the grain and oilseed
cropping and tillage systems, production
marketing system risk management in
grain marketing efficiency, production function analysis,
and international development
Major Professor to:
Mark Davis, Adam Flavin, Walter Von
Muhlen Filho
Specializations:
Specializations: Industrial Organization, Food and
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Economics and Genetically Engineered
Crops
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for the METSS program, and works
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Associate Professor Associate Professor Professor
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Specializations:
Agribusiness Strategy and Management,
Business Development and Applied
Econometrics
Highlights:
Contracting and vertical coordination
strategies in beef and biofuel supply
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Specializations:
Livestock Marketing
Highlights:
Integrated research and extension
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Major Professor to:
Cortney Bally
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Specializations:
Farm Management, Risk Management,
Natural Resource Economics
Highlights:
Best management strategies for
improving water quality and reducing
sedimentation of Kansas reservoirs;
evaluating the risk versus returns
from alternative cropping and tillage
strategies
Major Professor to:
James Arati, Joel Karlin, Michael
Kusmak, Rick Palermo
Specializations: Specializations:
Livestock Marketing, Price Analysis
International Development, Health and
Nutrition
Highlights:
Highlights:
Improving commodity market efficiency
Experimental design, impact evaluation, by investigating price discovery
international food assistance, nutrition, methods, market information, improving
health insurance, the gender wage gap, market coordinating mechanisms, and
marriage markets, connections between forecasting
mental health, stress and economic
decision making, and the relationship
Major Professor to:
between agriculture productivity and
Jim Bosley, Virginia Guardia,
cash transfer programs
Alana Nichols, Kash Tucker Schumacher
Specializations:
Crop Marketing and Farm Management
Specializations:
Agricultural Production, Risk Highlights:
Management, Climate Change and Crop
Insurance Measuring basis risk for commodity
grains, understanding the implications
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analyzing trends in Kansas agricultural
Interdisciplinary collaborations on land values, rental rates, and leasing
current issues impacting both domestic arrangements
and international agriculture
Major Professor to:
Paul Pommer
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Specializations:
International Trade, Agricultural Policy
Analysis, and Global Land Use Specializations:
Land Use
Highlights:
Research seeks to understand how future Highlights:
climates might shape world food markets
Land values, land rental rates, and rural
as well as the interactions between
development
international trade and stockholding as a
means of managing price risks as climate
variations become more global
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Professor & Undergraduate Program Director Associate Professor Assistant Professor
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Agribusiness, Finance, Marketing, Farm
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Management
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Highlights:
making, agricultural input market
Highlights: Industrial organization; contracts, vertical segments and the buying behavior
Firm efficiency and productivity, risk coordination, product differentiation,
of producers and consumers, and the
management and repayment risk market structure, and competition in
valuation of financial records with
food and agricultural industries
experimental auctions
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Dana Brooks, Brandon Garrett, Seth Post

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Specializations: Specializations:
Agribusiness Management, Causal Risk Management, Economics of Risk and
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Modeling of the consumption behavior Economic consequences of risk
of households and individuals; analyzing management related farm polices both
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modeling; adoption of agricultural
technologies; and modeling poverty and
malnutrition in developing countries