Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 08/2011
I am Associate Director of Midwest Dairy Foods Research Center, and help coordinate center's activities on research planning, fundraising, and stakeholder outreach. I am also one of eight faculty members of the National Program for Dairy Markets and Policy. Our work can be found at http://dairymarkets.org.
Areas of Interest
Agricultural Policy, Commodity Marketing, Finance.
Teaching
APEC 4481 - Futures and Options Markets
Research
My research program encompasses four areas: (i) U.S. dairy policy analysis, (ii) dairy risk analysis, (iii) demand analysis and elicitation of consumers' willingness to pay for new dairy foods products and (iv) feasibility assessments of new dairy technologies, processing investments and new products.
Honors and Awards
Henry C. Taylor Doctoral Dissertation Award, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012.
Chair’s Appreciation Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.
