Agribusiness Management Project People
Ken Duft teaches a course in Advanced Agribusiness Management (AE 460). He also does consultation work with agribusiness management programs, cooperatives, and private for-profit firms in both the agricultural input supply sector and the marketing side of the farm. An "Agribusiness Management" newsletter is available from this site. The newsletters deal with different aspects of Agribusiness Management and are grouped loosely by category. New newsletters will be published later this year. In January he takes part in the Cooperative Leadership Seminar, a week-long educational program directed towards agribusiness cooperative managers. Ken is involved in research on straw-to-energy (see article and Extension Bulletin E1946E under Agribusiness Projects). A complete paper is available, "AE02-4: Options in Financing Agribusiness Cooperatives: Research Findings and Conclusions."
Ray Folwell teaches classes in Agricultural Prices, Advanced Agricultural Marketing, Agribusiness Management and Marketing, and supervises two Agribusiness Internship programs, 497 and 597. He also does research on the competitive position of the U.S. and Washington asparagus industry in relation to harvesting costs. He is involved in production, uses, and trade flow of alfalfa seed research; the economics of potential alternatives for methyl bromide in postharvest commodity/quarantine treatments research; domestic and international marketing strategies for U.S. beef research; and viticultural, enological, and economic aspects of wine grape production in Washington, specifically focusing on analyzing the production and marketing risk in producing various varieties of vinifera grapes in Washington research.
Tom
Schotzko is
responsible for tree fruit marketing education. His focus is
involved in such diverse subjects as analyzing grower sales records
to evaluating advertising impacts in the pear and apple industries.
In the produce marketing sector he does work in market system dynamics
evaluating how the system operates, and how it is changing due to
technology. He also does some work in the dynamics
of potato marketing in collaboration with extension faculty in
horticulture.
Three articles on the apple industry are included here: Per
Acre Receipts for Red Delicious and Gala:The Effects of Grade, Size,
Cullage and Yield, Apple
Outlook, 2002 Crop, and Projecting
Crop Size. Linked to this article is an Excel
workbook that contains a sheet for each variety and for the total
estimates of apple production and acreage. The totals sheet also
has graphs for each variety and for the total. Each graph contains
a curve for the estimate and upper and lower bounds that are some
adjustable percentage to reflect the variability that occurs in the
crop from year to year. New additions to this site are professional
papers - 1) that describes part of the work that evaluated WAC promotional
activities: Measuring the Effects of
Generic Price and Non-Price Promotional Activities: the Case of Washington
Apples, and 2) A
Brief Look at the Washington Apple Industry: Past and Present.