Agricultural Economist
Browning Endowed Chair

• DISCIPLINE:
  Agribusiness Economics
  
  
• AREA OF EXPERTISE:
  Value-added agribusiness development, agribusiness marketing and management and consumer demand analysis.
  
  
• GENERAL AREAS OF RESEARCH:
  Rural and food industry economic development; economic implications of value-added food processing and food policies; economic implications of the use and/or creation of feedstocks for bioenergy.
  
  
• CONTACT:
  Address: Oklahoma State University
  Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
  114 FAPC
  Stillwater, OK 74078
  Phone: 405-744-6272
  Fax: 405-744-6313
  E-mail: rodney.holcomb@okstate.edu
  
  

• CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
  
  
• Economic impacts of food safety regulatory changes on the development and growth of local food systems

Research this quarter included impacts of possible exemptions in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) for small farms and food processors and the transportation costs per dollar of sales for supplier members of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative.