Jeff Beaulieu, Associate Professor Degree: Iowa State University, 1984 Speciality Areas: Agricultural marketing and policy Courses Taught: Commodity and Agribusiness Marketing, Agriculture and Food Policy, Econometrics Research Areas: Environmental modeling and policy, marketing

Roger Beck, Professor Emeritus Degree: Pennsylvania State University, 1977 Speciality Areas: Rural economic development, regional econometrics, agricultural development Courses Taught: Statistics, Agricultural Development, Cost-Benefit Analysis Research Areas: Value-added agricultural enterprises, agribusiness firm location, land use, spatial patterns of economic activity

Phil Eberle, Associate Professor Degree: Iowa State University, 1983 Speciality Areas: Farm management, farm real estate appraisal, production economics Courses Taught: Farm Management, Farm Real Estate Appraisal, Agribusiness Planning Techniques, Resource Allocation of the Agribusiness Firm, and Applications of Information Technology to Agribusiness Research Areas: Economic efficiency and viability studies of various enterprises (dairy, wheat, and grapes) and management of practices, land values

Kim Harris, Associate Professor Degree: University of Illinois, 1985 Speciality Areas: Agricultural finance & agribusiness management Courses Taught: Agriculture Finance, Agribusiness Management, and Agricultural Sales & Marketing Research Areas: Agriculture finance and agribusiness management

Steven Kraft, Professor & Chair Degree: Cornell University, 1976 Speciality Areas: Farm management and natural resources policy and economics Courses Taught: Farm Management, Research Methods, Land Resource Economics, Agricultural Development, Social Perspectives on Environmental Problems Research Areas: Soil and water conservation policy, watershed management and planning, farm policy, ecosystem system services

Wanki Moon, Assistant Professor Degree: University of Florida, 1995 Speciality Areas: Consumer economics and food marketing Courses Taught: Managerial Strategies for Agribusiness Research Areas: Public Acceptance of GMOs, health information in food markets

William Peterson, Researcher Degree: Iowa State University, 1975 Speciality Areas: Regional economics input-output analysis, statistics Courses Taught: Statistics Research Areas: Regional economic studies, fluid flow, remote sensing, and GIS

Matt Rendleman, Associate Professor Degree: Purdue University, 1989 Speciality Areas: Agricultural policy and technology assessment Courses Taught: Introduction to Agricultural Economics, Research Methodology, Agricultural Policy Research Areas: Fuel ethanol, local enterprise impact analysis, Illinois dairy sector

Dwight Sanders, Assistant Professor Degree: University of Illinois, 1995 Speciality Areas: Futures and options, risk management, price analysis Courses Taught: Commodity Futures Markets, Agricultural Price Analysis, Agribusiness Management Research Areas: Risk management, future contract design, forecasting techniques and evaluation