Team Researches Chinese Beef Demand

A team of researchers has published an overview of Chinese beef demand, shifting consumer preferences, and the opportunities within future beef demand growth. Agricultural economics graduate students Shonda Anderson, 2011 master’s graduate, Casey Bieroth, 2010 master’s graduate, and Grace Tucker, master’s student, collaborated with Ted Schroeder, professor of agricultural economics, to write, “Chinese Beef Consumption [...]

Graduate Becomes Ag Policy Adviser

by K-State News Services One agribusiness graduate is moving up the ranks as a Congressional staff member. Wayne Stoskopf, a May 2010 graduate in agribusiness, formerly of Hoisington, served as an intern in summer 2009 for Jerry Moran, then the state’s 1st District congressman. During Moran’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2010, Stoskopf was [...]

Ag Economics, Agribusiness Degrees Offer Salary Benefits

By David Lambert, Department Head, Agricultural Economics New data available from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey permits comparisons of earnings by college graduates based on major. Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce have collected and analyzed earnings data from the ACS. The full report can be downloaded at the [...]

Team Leads Review of USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey

Two faculty members are helping lead a nationwide team of researchers in a review of the USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey, which annually measures the financial health of farms and ranches. Allen Featherstone, professor of agricultural economics, and Christine Wilson, assistant dean of the College of Agriculture, have teamed up with Chuck Moss, professor of [...]

Ag Econ Graduate Pursues Country Music Dream

By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University How did you spend spring break? Some college students went to a sunny beach, a family trip or just caught up on their sleep. One student spent his spring break going to Nashville – not just to listen [...]

Grad Students Fewell, Parman Earn Poster Awards

Congratulations to Jason Fewell and Bryon Parman, both Ph.D. students in agricultural economics, for their exceptional posters on sustainable energy research. The Kansas State University Center for Sustainable Energy held its Bioenergy Symposium Poster Presentations Apr. 27-28. “We were very impressed with the level of research accomplishment achieved this past year,” wrote the center’s co-directors [...]

Craig Smith Honored With Graduate Research Award

Congratulations to Craig Smith, winner of the Graduate Research Assistant of the Year! Smith is graduating this month with his Ph.D. in agricultural economics. Dr. John Leatherman, professor of agricultural economics, nominated Smith for the award, which is given by the Golden Key International Honour Society of Kansas State University. Below are remarks Leatherman made [...]

Graduate Student Recognized with Teaching Award

Beth Yeager, Ph.D. student in agricultural economics, received the 2011 Richard Elmore Brown Outstanding College of Agriculture Graduate Student Teaching Award on April 19, 2011 in the Flint Hills Room at the KSU Student Union. Yeager was recognized for her work as an instructor for AGEC 515:  Food and Agribusiness Marketing during the Spring 2011 semester.  [...]

Graduate Student Featured on Market Journal TV Program

Kristen Schulte, master’s student in agricultural economics, spoke with Doug Jose, host of Market Journal, about financial farm management on Friday, Apr. 15, in Lincoln, Neb. Market Journal is a television program produced for agricultural producers by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. Schulte says producer peer groups of 8 to 10 operators is an effective [...]

NAMA Team Takes 3rd at National Competition

By Nellie Hill From the K-State Collegian After a year of preparation and practice, the final placing of the National Agri-Marketing Association Student Marketing Competition was announced to a packed hall on April 15. This year, the annual Agri-Marketing Conference, hosted by NAMA professionals, was held April 13-15 in Kansas City, Mo. The K-State NAMA [...]