Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Contributing Faculty

Acharya

♦ Ram N Acharya | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Farm production risk and profitability, valuation of ecosystem services, food safety and security, marketing of farm and value added products, and sustainability
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Blanley

♦ Don P. Blayney | Adjunct Professor

Expertise:
Agricultural policy, Dairy, Quantitative analysis using various techniques
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Lillywhite

♦ Jay Lillywhite | Professor

Expertise:
Agricultural marketing, business feasibility / finance.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
Miller

♦ Maryfrances (Frannie) Miller | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Agricultural policy, research in animal disease and traceability
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Regmi

♦ Madhav Regmi | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Agricultural finance, risk management, production economics and agricultural policy
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Robinson

♦ Chadelle Robinson | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Food marketing, general marketing, consumer behavior, and general agricultural business.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Torell

♦ Greg Torell | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Resource and environmental economics, rangeland economics, water economics, energy economics, and applied microeconomics
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems