Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. B.A. from Iowa State University in History, M.A. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University.

My current research and outreach programs generally focus on the farm-level economics of crop production, emphasizing 1) pest management, 2) risk management and 3) specialty crop economics.  These research areas often overlap, because, for example, managing risk is an important part of managing insects, whether for commodity crops such as corn or soybeans or for specialty crops such as potatoes or sweet corn.