Extension and Service

Extension is a core part of my appointment at the University of Idaho. My program helps Idaho grain producers understand input cost trends and manage price risk through workshops, outlook briefings, peer-reviewed bulletins, and regular columns in the trade press.

Recent Outreach Presentations

• Risk Management Strategies for the 2026–2027 Wheat Crop. Direct Seed Workshop, Idaho Falls, March 2026.
• Marketing Crops in a Challenging Time; Marketing 101: Tools for Managing Price Risk. East Idaho Cereals Conference, Idaho Falls, February 2026.
• Input Cost Trends. Idaho Ag Outlook, Boise, December 2025 (annual presentations since 2021, statewide).
• Wheat Marketing Strategies. WSU Wheat Academy, Pullman, December 2025, two sessions.
• Great Power Competition and Agricultural Commodities. Borah Symposium, Moscow, September 2025.
• Grain risk management workshops (four-hour format) for producers in northern, southern, and eastern Idaho: Twin Falls and Pocatello (2025), Lewiston and Ririe (2024).
• Podcast on managing price risk in volatile times, Idaho Wheat Commission, 2023.

Extension Publications and Trade Press

• Peer-reviewed University of Idaho Extension bulletins on trading grain futures and options (BUL 1135), hedging and basis (BUL 1058), grain contracts (BUL 1055), margin protection insurance (BUL 1059), wheat marketing strategies (RES 208), Idaho farmland values (RES 211), and wheat exports through the Columbia River port (RES 210).
• Regular columns in AgProud Idaho on fertilizer and fuel markets, including the outlet’s most-downloaded article of 2024 and third most-downloaded of 2025.
• Featured article in the FAO AMIS Market Monitor and the World Bank Development Talk blog on yield growth patterns of food commodities, 2025.

Service to the Profession

• Editorial Council Member, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2020–2022 and 2024–present.
• Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2021–present.
• Member, National Wheat Improvement Committee, 2022–present.
• Nomination Committee Member, AAEA, 2022–2025; Executive Board Member, NAREA, 2020–2023; Chair, NAREA Graduate Student Engagement Committee, 2022–2023.
• Co-Guest Editor, Agricultural Finance Review special issue on agricultural credit, 2017–2018; Secretary/Treasurer, AAEA Agricultural Finance and Management Section, 2015–2018.
• Referee for more than forty journals, including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics, Food Policy, the Journal of Futures Markets, and Nature Sustainability; reviewer for USDA ERS reports and USDA NIFA grant programs; promotion and tenure external reviewer.

University Service

• University of Idaho: Academic Programs Advisory and Curriculum Committee, CALS (2023–present); Subeditor, University of Idaho Extension Publishing (2023–present); search committees including CALS Dean (2024–2025) and Associate Dean for Academic Programs (2026); faculty advisor to the undergraduate social media team of the Barker Agricultural Commodity Risk Management Program.
• West Virginia University (2014–2021): Chair, Davis College Graduate Student Research and Creative Scholarship Committee; graduate program and Ph.D. qualifying examination committees; multiple college-level search committees.

Selected Media Coverage

• Capital Press, on a new University of Idaho tool helping farmers choose ARC or PLC, May 2026.
• KMVT, on the Iran war driving up fertilizer and diesel costs for Idaho farmers, April 2026.
• Capital Press, on helping wheat farmers cut costs and manage risk, November 2025, and on persistent high input costs, October 2025.
• Farms.com, ScienceDaily, Phys.org, and Anthropocene, on global food yield growth findings, late 2024.
• Capital Press, annual coverage of input cost outlooks, 2021–2024.
• Financial Times and Reuters, on bubbles in food commodity markets, 2013.