Courses

 

Agricultural Economics 4972
Agri-Food Business & Cooperative Management

This three hour course reviews the generic types of risk (biological production process, market structure imperfections, etc.) faced by global agribusiness. Alternative risk management tools are presented as presently employed by agribusiness managers. The use of institutional structures developed to ameliorate these risks (market orders, government regulations, futures markets, etc.) are examined. The course concludes with an intensive review and analysis of agricultural cooperatives as a risk management tool. The class works with CEOs and Board Members permitting students the opportunity to apply conceptual tools to real world agribusiness and cooperative decision making.

Agricultural Economics 9510
Economics of the Agribusiness Firm

Agricultural Economics 9520
Economics of Agribusiness Strategy

Agricultural Economics 8610 (Rural Sociology 8610)
Using Economic and Sociological Tools for Understanding Collective Action

Agricultural Economics 8001/9001 (Rural Sociology 9480)
Quantitative Applied Community Research — Surveys