Oklahoma State University - Department of Agricultural Economics

It is Week 3 of classes and our students are having a blast! These students are practicing risk management and decision making by utilizing decision trees in their Farm & Agribusiness Management class. 🌻🧡🎃

Producers, lenders, and policy-makers seeking to gain insight into the rural agricultural economy and make more informed decisions will be interested in attending the 2024 Rural Economic Outlook Conference, Wednesday, October 16 at the Conoco Phillips OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater. This annual one day conference features outside keynote speakers plus OSU faculty. Kenny Burdine, Extension Professor in Livestock Economics at the University of Kentucky is a featured keynote speaker providing an update on Livestock Risk Protection Insurance for Feeder Cattle.

Another featured keynote speaker, Randy Daniels, Chief Risk Officer at Triangle Insurance will discuss the Impact of the Agricultural Insurance Market on the Ag Industry.

Participants also have an opportunity to hear from OSU experts about departmental research, value-added enterprises, and updates on the livestock market as well as faculty views on Ag finance and grain markets.

The registration fee is $50 and includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks.

Click https://agriculture.okstate.edu/departments-programs/agecon/extension/rural-economic-outlook-conference.html for the conference agenda and to register for the 2024 Rural Economic Outlook Conference.

Our Graduate Student Social was held last week to welcome our new students into the department. Faculty, along with new and returning students, enjoyed getting to know one another!

Yeehaw!! We welcomed 147 new freshman and 65 transfer students to our department this past week! We are so glad to have our returning students back as well! Our agribusiness club, Aggie-X, hosted a Back-to-School Bash that included free snow cones! Check out our busy first week of the semester pictures!

Our department has been busy welcoming our new class of students from China Agricultural University. They've been settling in and doing last minute back-to-school shopping! We are so excited to welcome them to their new home with us at OSU! Welcome Cowboys! 🧡

🏆📝🧡Our final award celebration is for Dr. K. Aleks Schaefer and his coauthors for their outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy article for 2024! Our faculty do great research and we are proud of their hard work!

Save the date! Our Rural Economic Outlook Conference is October 16, 2024.

Producers, lenders, and policy-makers seeking to gain insight into the rural agricultural economy and make more informed decisions will be interested in attending the 2024 Conference. Attendees will hear Randy Daniels, Chief Risk Officer, Triangle Insurance speak on the Impact of the Agricultural Insurance Market on the Ag Industry and Kenny Burdine, Extension Professor in Livestock Economics, University of Kentucky will discuss Livestock Risk Protection Insurance for Feeder Cattle.

Register online at https://agriculture.okstate.edu/departments-programs/agecon/extension/rural-economic-outlook-conference.html.

Rural Economic Outlook Conference - Oklahoma State University A page dedicated to providing updates regarding the Rural Economic Outlook Conference.

We are excited to recognize Dr. Amy Hagerman for being awarded the Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award from Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA)! Way to represent and serve the people of Oklahoma with your programming! 🧡🏆

We have a familiar face again for an award announcement! Tony Caruso, MS student, won first place in the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Policy Communication Competition for his policy brief and presentation on rural healthcare access. Great job representing the Cowboys and supporting rural communities! Tony was advised by Dr. Hannah E. Shear.

We are back at it with another award celebration! This time, it is for Dr. Derrell Peel, who was recognized by the National Association of County Agricultural Agents, with the NACAA Service to American/World Agriculture Award. This is in recognition for all of his work in the cattle and beef industry, and is awarded based on major contributions to American/World Agriculture that are recognized by peers and the general public. Congratulations!

🏆 Award Alert! Today we congratulate Anthony Caruso, a second year Masters student, for being awarded the "Excellence in Teaching Assistance" award from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Teaching, Learning, and Communications Section. Tony is being recognized for his efforts supporting the teaching of Farm and Agribusiness Management alongside Dr. Hannah E Shear ✏️🍎Congratulations Tony, we are so proud! Thank you for all you do to support our students!🧡

Next up in our award recognition series is our own Department Head, Dr. Cheryl DeVuyst, who was named the Oklahoma CattleWoman of the Year!!! Congratulations!! 🧡🥩

We are busy missing our students, but our faculty and graduate students are also busy with summer conference and award season! We will be sharing some of these with you in the coming weeks! We are starting off with Dr. Hannah E. Shear, who was recognized by the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) for her teaching with the NACTA Educator Award! She presented at the conference in Wooster, Ohio and helped facilitate a working lunch for the Southern Region as she also serves as an Assistant Regional Director for the association. Congrats!🍎✏️🧡

You are invited to join us in celebrating Dr. Kim Anderson’s retirement on Thursday, July 25th from 1:30pm – 3:00pm at the Colvin Annex. A short presentation will be given at 2pm.

Please RSVP by July 12th
Kareta Casey [email protected]
Marie Hughes [email protected]

There will be additional information sent out closer to that time about parking and other details.

If you are not able to attend but would like to share a greeting or favorite memory with Dr. Anderson, you can email it to Kareta or Marie or send it to:

OSU College of Agriculture
Dept. of Agriculture Economics
308 Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078

We are so excited to be participating in Grandparent University through the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association! Professor Eric DeVuyst led future Pokes and their grandparents through the Farm Game. Participants get to practice practical farm and ranch management decisions through this interactive activity. Looks like everyone is having fun!

Congratulations to Jered Davidson, an alumnus of our department, on being recognized as a recipient of the 2024 Ferguson College Alumni Early Career Achievement Award!🎉

Davidson served as a teaching assistant to the department and was a member of Aggie-X while earning his degree in agricultural economics!🧡

Congratulations to Jered Davidson on being a recipient of the 2024 Ferguson College of Agriculture Alumni Early Career Achievement Award! 👏

Davidson graduated from the Ferguson College in 2009 with a degree in agricultural economics. He is an attorney with The Public Finance Law Group PLLC and represents clients across Oklahoma. Davidson has shown a commitment to the continued success of the Ferguson College as a donor to the New Frontiers capital campaign and Oklahoma 4-H, recently concluding 10 years as a member of the Oklahoma 4-H Foundation Board of Directors.

“I would put the education I received in the Ferguson College up against any other institution in the country. Not only did it prepare me for the technical aspects of my career, it also taught me the value of collaboration and persistence which pays dividends every day when trying to provide solutions for my clients.”

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Congratulations to Representative Kyle Hilbert, an alumnus of our department, on being recognized as a recipient of the 2024 Ferguson College Alumni Early Career Achievement Award!🎉

Hilbert graduated with a bachelor's degree in agribusiness and was a member of Aggie-X!🧡

Congratulations to Representative Kyle Hilbert for being a recipient of the 2024 Ferguson College Alumni Early Career Achievement Award! 🎉

Hilbert graduated from the Ferguson College in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in agribusiness. He is currently serving his fourth term as state representative for Oklahoma House District 29 and is slated to serve as the next Speaker of the House. Hilbert remains connected to the college by serving as a guest speaker in various classes and through his mentorship of students serving in the agricultural legislative internship program at the State Capitol and students who are interested in policy and legislative careers.

“As a student in the Ferguson College, I was given every opportunity to grow as a person and be prepared to serve in the state legislature. My education and leadership experiences were instrumental and the relationships with my professors in the college are those I still cherish to this day.”

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Ida-know about you, but our trip to Idaho was successful!🤩🥔Congratulations to our Quiz-Bowl students who traveled to Twin Falls, Idaho, to compete at the 2024 NACTA Conference.

Agribusiness competition team members placed first in their case study about a dairy farm!

Individual Placings:
1st - Cody Loganbill
2nd - Tinley Sitton
3rd - Owen Brown
5th - Molly Jo McCollum

Congratulations to our students who presented their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! We are so proud of Kaetlyn Freideman, Karsen Jones, Anabeth Livingston, Frank Zhao, and Cody Loganbill for all their hard work in completing their research! 🤩🔬

Come expand your MELON and hear from Emmanuel as he defends his thesis this morning on the feasibility of a watermelon packing cooperative! 🍉

Do property values get "burned" by medical ma*****na in rural Oklahoma? Attend Ms. Hilburn's thesis defense to find out! 🤠👩🏻‍🌾

Come get "roped in" and learn about feed grain demand estimation with Halle Roper! Halle will be defending her thesis on Tuesday! 🐮🌾

🌱🚜Growing soybeans in Oklahoma can be "Tuff", but Tuff Johnson can tell you a little about how to manage them (see what we did there?). Mr. Johnson will be defending his thesis on Monday!

Our department's undergraduate club, Aggie-X , completed their key painting last night during the last regular meeting of the year. We believe what you learn here is the Key to Success! Go Pokes!

📢Nathan Dethloff will be presenting his thesis defense on Monday. He will be talking about his research, which looked at different marketing strategies for beef producers in Oklahoma! We love beef! 🥩🧡

📣It is a busy part of the year for many of our graduate students as they start to defend their research! This week Sheriff Hassan defended his thesis! More announcements coming soon! 🧡

📣 🚨 Help us help others! Our Aggie-X Agribusiness Club is collecting donations to help those impacted by the wildfires. Some club members are heading to West Texas on Friday to deliver donations as well as take part in the clubs annual trip! We our proud of our students service mindset. Dr. Shear is facilitating the donations with OSU and Texas Extension. 🧡🤠

M.S. student, Tuff Johnson, placed first at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA for his three minute thesis presentation (3MT). Tuff’s advisor is Dr. Shear, and he presented his topic of “An Evaluation of Production Efficiency and Management in Soybeans.”

Congrats Tuff!🏆

M.S. student, Macy Rosselle, placed second at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA for her three minute thesis presentation (3MT). Macy’s advisor is Dr. Schaefer, and she presented her topic of “The Effects of Class Action Lawsuits on California Glyphosate Usage.”

Congrats Macy!🏆