Presentations

• Fearless Farm Finances - PFI Annual Conference - January 2013
• Organizing basic financial information: balance sheet, income statement, understanding cash flows...
• Enterprise Budgets: Which part of your business is or is not making money...
• Workshop Exercise
• Workshop Exericse - with answers
• How much for one egg - Midwest Value Added Ag Conference - December 2012
• Improving Profitability - MOSES Organic Conference - February 2012
• Local Food Systems and the Local Food and Farm Program – IFVGA - January 2012.
• Alternative Cropping Systems - Comparison to a Conventional C-SB Rotation - Marsden Farm Research - PFI annual conference - January 2012
• Organic Transitioning - Making the Transition - January 2012
• Local Food Systems - Why Local? Why Now? - Iowa Farm Bureau - December 2011
• Local Food Systems - Overview & Connections to Iowa Famers Union - December 2011
• Response from Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
• Iowa Local Food and Farm Plan
• Using financial records...to answer all sorts of questions you or others may have... - Iowa Valley RC&D - January 2012
• Exercise 1 - Balance Sheet
• Exercise 1 - Balance Sheet - with answers
• Using partial budgets - MOSES workshop - December 2011
• Exercise
• Planning for Profit - MOSES workshop - December 2011
• Exercise
• Organic-Conventional Economic Comparison
• Organic-Conventional Comparison
• Corn-Soybean Budget
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010
• Organic Budgets
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010

Publications

• Making the Transition from Conventional to Organic
• Developing Enterprise Budgets
• Economic Analysis of Three Rotations -- PMR 1001
• Iowa Vegetable Production Budgets -- PM 2017
• Muscatine melon: A case study of a place-based food in Iowa
• Let the vineyards be fruitful: A study of the potential market for Iowa grape juice

Areas of Expertise

Business Planning and Business Start-Ups, Insurance and Risk Management Tools and Techniques, Organic and Food-Based Alternative Agricultural Enterprises, Regional Food Systems, Sustainable Agriculture and Water Quality Issues, and Whole Farm and Enterprise Financial Analysis and Decision-Making.

Educations

PhD., Rural Sociology, Iowa State University, 1994
M.S.,  Agricultural Economics, Iowa State University, 1980
B.A.,  Economics/Accounting, University of Northern Iowa, 1978

Awards/Honors/Publications

University Extension Achievement Team Award - Educational, 2009
University Extension Achievement Team Award - Organizational, 2009
University Extension Achievement Team Award - Educational, 2008
University Extension Achievement Team Award - Educational, 2007
University Extension Achievement Team Award, 2004
University Extension Achievement Team Award, 2003
University Extension New Professional Award, 1993
University Extension Achievement Team Award, 1993
Authored/Co-authored Publications: 13 refereed journal articles, seven presented papers/book chapters, 49 departmental/extension/professional papers.