Extension & Outreach
Four faculty members have extension appointments ranging from 70 percent to full-time. A number of other faculty members have partial extension appointments and virtually all faculty in the School are, from time to time, engaged in outreach and policy education. Ongoing extension programs are carried out in farm and ranch business management, fruit and vegetable marketing, agribusiness management, local government education and economic development, environmental and fisheries economics. Extension and outreach programs are often linked to applied research projects.
Farm Management, Production and Resource Economics
The Farm and Ranch Management extension program is led by Herb Hinman. He develops and conducts educational programs in the following areas: 1) principles of record keeping, 2) analysis of business financial performance, 3) developing and analyzing enterprise information, 4) analysis of investments in capital assets, 5) analysis of proposed business adjustments, 6) business organizational alternatives, 7) income tax management, 8) estate planning, and 9) risk management. Programs are delivered through workshops and a wide assortment of publications. A large number of enterprise budgets are developed and maintained in close cooperation with county/area extension faculty. Also, computer programs and other decision-making tools are developed to facilitate improved economic analyses of various management issues confronting farm/ranch managers. He works on numerous multi-disciplinary teams with other state and county extension faculty.
- Production and finance
- Environmental and resource economics:
Community and Regional Economics
Livestock Economics
Shannon Neibergs is working in the field of Economics of Livestock Production and Management, Auction Markets, and Agribusiness. He has a new Web site, Livestock Economics.
Agribusiness Management and Agricultural Marketing
The Agribusiness sector encompasses many aspects of the economy: agricultural producers, businesses that provide supplies and services to the producers (including cooperatives), businesses that add value to agricultural products, and those that facilitate the marketing of agricultural products to an ever-growing marketplace. This economic sector has undergone enormous change and will continue to evolve into the future. According to a 1995 study by William Edmondson (USDA/ERS), the food and fiber sector, including input, production, processing, and distribution (the whole marketing channel) equals 13.5% of GDP and 17.3% of jobs in the U.S
The Agribusiness Management program is led by Ken Duft. Ken Duft, retired 2007, has ongoing projects on cooperative finance and business development. Currently Ken has special projects investigating the changes in grain storage capacity requirements as a result of the loss of CCC storage subsidies and evaluating the economic potential straw to energy ventures.
Other agribusiness sector outreach activities include: Ken Casavant, transportation economics (EWITS), public policy and marketing, Hayley Chouinard, Agricultural and natural resource policy; Eric Jessup, transportation economics (EWITS) and transportation research, and Jill McCluskey , the impact of product reputation, including green labeling.
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