Faculty
Ram Acharya
Ram N. Acharya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He received an M.A in Economics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, an M.S. in Economics and Management from the University Pertanian Malaysia, Malaysia, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Auburn University.
His primary research interests are in food safety, logistics management, spatial competition, production efficiency, technology adoption, and demand analysis. He is currently involved in research projects related to food defense, food safety, market power, and fresh produce marketing.
Acharya's recent publications have appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Journal of Business and Economics Research, Journal of Economics and Business, Applied Economics Letters, e-Service Journal, Health Economics & Behavior Journal, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Office: GT 381B
Phone: 575-646-2524
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: acharyar@nmsu.edu
Van Bullock
Van Bullock received his B.A. and M.B.A. in Agricultural Economics from New Mexico State University.
His areas of concentration are Rural Appraisal, Real Estate Investment, and Applied Economics.
As a College Associate Professor, his areas of special interest are Real Estate, Applied Economics, and Agricultural Marketing. He teaches Introductory Agricultural Economics and Business, and Rural Appraisal.
Office: GT 379A
Phone: 575-646-4326
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: vbullock@nmsu.edu
Lowell Catlett
Lowell Catlett is a Regent's Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and Extension Economics and the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics.
He received a BS from West Texas State, a MS from New Mexico State University and a PhD in Economics from Iowa State.
His areas of expertise are: Marketing Economics, Futures Markets, and Production Economics. His interests include: Advising and teaching both undergraduate and graduate students, Futures Market Research, Futuristic Planning and Forecasting.
He is the author of numerous books and articles and won the university's highest award to a professor, the Westhafer Award. He works nationally and internationally with corporations and organizations doing futuristic planning concerning the impacts of technology on careers, lifestyles and the economy. Catlett also works with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Labor, Interior, Defense, Education, Energy and the World Bank. He has been a visiting professor or delivered invited presentations at over 75 universities including Harvard, MIT, Cornell and the University of Illinois.
Office: GT 220
Phone: 575-646-3748
Fax: 575-646-5975
E-mail: lcatlett@nmsu.edu
Cynda Clary
Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and currently Interim Department Head of Agricultural and Extension Education.
Cynda Clary received her B.S. from California Polytechnic State University (Major: Agricultural Business Management), a M.S.M. from Purdue University (Major: Management, Option: Marketing) and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University (Major: Economics, Minor: Statistics). Her areas of special interest are: Leadership in Higher Education, Student Success/Retention Issues and Evaluation of Advertising/Promotion Programs.
Clary is currently the president-elect of NMSU's chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. She also coordinates the NM State FFA Agricultural Marketing Competition. Clary has served as the faculty advisor for many student organizations including NAMA, the NMSU Chapter of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS), the College Ambassadors, Alpha Zeta, CERES, and the RhoMates.
Clary has received numerous awards and recognition, a few of which are as follows:
2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, Less Than 10 Years Experience, American Agricultural Economics Association
2001 USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, Western Region Recipient
2001 Honorary State FFA Degree, New Mexico State FFA Association
1998 CAHE Distinguished Teaching Award
1997 NMSU, Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence
1995 Outstanding Advisor, National Agri-Marketing Association
Office: GT 111
Phone: 575-646-4511
Fax: 575-646-4082
E-mail: cclary@nmsu.edu
Terry Crawford
Terry Crawford received his Bachelors of Science in Agriculture from New Mexico State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, and his Master of Science and PhD from Cornell University, Applied Economics and Management Department, formerly Department of Agricultural Economics.
He is currently the interim department head and utility infielder for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He is working on an animal identification project with Rhonda Skaggs, with the Center for New Mexico Studies on Trade, Research and Education and is the New Mexico Homeland Security Coordinator for ACES.
Office: GT 387
Phone: 575-646-3215
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: crawford@nmsu.edu
Joel A. Diemer
Joel Diemer is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, he received a B.S. in Urban Planning and a M.S. in Economics from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Colorado State University.
His areas of special interest are: Strategic Planning and Organizational Design in Non Pay-for-Work, Environments, Participative Democracy, and World Citizenship.
He teaches various Special Topics and Special Problems classes in Agricultural Economics.
Office: GT 390
Phone:575-646-2825
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: jodiemer@nmsu.edu
Constance L. Falk
Connie Falk is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. She holds a BA in English, a MBA in Business Administration, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University.
Her expertise is in the fields of: Agricultural Marketing of Organics, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, Farm Markets, International Development Projects, and Computer Applications for Agriculture. Falk teaches: World Food Problems and Managing a Community Supported Farm through the Honors Program, Mastering Financial Statements, a Spring Break Study Tour to Latin America through the AEAB department and an Organic Vegetable Production class in conjunction with the Horticulture Department. Her research interests are cooperative development, the economics of small scale farming, Community Supported Agriculture, organic agriculture, and the feasibility analysis of value added agriculture. Her current research projects focus on winter vegetable markets, hoop houses for season extension in berry production, killed mulch systems, and a student-run organic Community Supported Agriculture farm on campus.
Falk was recognized as the 2004 Benefactor of Sustainable Agriculture during the New Mexico Organic Farming and Gardening Expo sponsored by the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission and won first prize in the NMSU Library Haiku Contest.
Office:GT 342
Phone:575-646-4731
Fax:575-646-3522
E-mail:cfalk@nmsu.edu
John Fowler
John Fowler is a Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and the coordinator for the Range Improvement Task Force. He holds a BS in Forestry from Iowa State University; a MS in Agriculture with a major in Agricultural Economics from NMSU; and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University.
His fields of concentration are in Resource-Range Economics, Production Economics, and Public Land Policy. Fowler's special interests are: the interface between forest and rangelands with respect to environmental, production, and institutional tradeoffs; and the Economic opportunity of costs of public land policy. He teaches Ranch Economics.
Office: GT 366
Phone: 575-646-2841
Fax: 575-646-3522
E-mail:jofowler@nmsu.edu
William Gorman
Bill Gorman is a Professor Emeritus in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He holds a B.S. in General Agriculture and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from University of Illinois, and a Ph.D Oregon State University, Agricultural Economics, Minor: Economics & Statistics.
His fields of concentration are in: Agricultural Business Feasibility, High Value Crops, International Competitiveness, International Trade and Marketing. Gorman's areas of special interest are: International Marketing, Impacts of the Information Revolution on the structure of global food and agribusiness firms, and Vinticulture. Gorman teaches the NAMA Market Analysis class and is the NAMA sponsor.
Office:GT 353E
Phone575-522-3101
Fax:575-646-3522
E-mail:wigorman@nmsu.edu
Jerry M. Hawkes
Jerry Hawkes is a Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from New Mexico State University. His areas of expertise are in: farm and ranch business management and computer applications for agriculture. His research interests are: financial diversity in agricultural, production economics as it is related to agriculture, crop and livestock cost and return estimates and applied production economics. Hawkes teaches Agribusiness Management Principles and Life with Microcomputers, Macroeconomic Theory and Microeconomic Theory.
Hawkes was named Advisor of the Year in 2001, Agricultural and Extension Education Outstanding Advisor in 2002, Teacher of the Year AXED in 2002, and a Gamma Sigma Inductee. He received the 2002 NACTA Teaching Award, the 2002 AXED Club Teaching Award, the 2003 Sam Steel Award, and the 2003 National FFA Award. Hawkes was recognized in Who's Who Among Professors in 2004.
Office:GT 385
Phone:575-646-2322
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail:jhawkes@nmsu.edu
Brian H. Hurd
Brian Hurd is an Associate Professor whose principle research examines the ways in which human systems and economies interact with water, land, and climatic resources. His courses in both water resource management and world food systems receive wide praise from students from across the university. Prior to coming to NMSU, he was ten years in private consulting where he examined the socio-economic impacts from and adaptations to changes in climate and climate variability. Originally from Colorado and an alum of CU Boulder, he earned MS and PhD degrees from UC Davis. This was followed by a year spent as a post-doctorate scholar at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, where he continued his doctoral research on risk management and the economics of integrated pest management practices in large scale cotton systems.
Office:GT 374
Phone:575-646-2674
Fax:575-646-3522
E-mail:bhurd@nmsu.edu
Jim Libbin
Jim Libbin is Academic Dean for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University and a professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department.
He has taught Agribusiness Management, Advanced Agribusiness Management, Economics of Baseball, Applied Production Economics, Agribusiness Financial Management, and various Special Problems and Seminar classes.
Office:GT 221
Phone: 575-646-3210
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: jlibbin@nmsu.edu
Jay Lillywhite
Associate Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, Jay Lillywhite received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2003 from Purdue University specializing in agribusiness marketing and natural resource management. He holds an M.S. degree in Economics from Utah State University and a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University.
Lillywhite has a variety of research interests. Areas examined in his research include: ethnic markets for food, econometric methods for use with survey level data, direct marketing, and value added marketing. He received the 2008 College of Agriculture and Home Economics Distinguished Teaching Award.
Office:GT 381A
Phone:575-646-5321
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail:lillywhi@nmsu.edu
J. Michael Patrick
Michael Patrick is an Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, director of the Doctorate of Economic Development program, and Community Resource & Economic Development Specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service. He received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; M.S. in Community Development from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.
His areas of expertise are: community economic development, rural development, business development and entrepreneurship. Patrick has over 20 years of teaching, research, and community economic development activity in the U.S.- Mexico border region and Latin America. He is co-editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Office: GT 346
Phone: 575-646-7194
Cell: 575-202-4253
Fax:505-646-3808
E-mail: jmpat@nmsu.edu
Rhonda Skaggs
Rhonda Skaggs is currently a Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of food and agricultural policy, agricultural structure, agricultural ethics, and the future of the food and agricultural system. Her B.S. is in General Agriculture, Colorado State University (1981); M.S., in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Colorado State University (1985); and Ph.D. in Economics, Utah State University (1989). She grew up on a farm in eastern Colorado, and joined NMSU in August 1989.
Skaggs' current research projects include analysis of irrigation practices in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District (as part of the Rio Grande Basin Initiative), attitudes toward agriculture, government, and the environment in New Mexico, U.S.-Mexico livestock trade, and the southwest region chile pepper industry. Skaggs teaches courses in agricultural policy and agricultural issues.
Office: GT 379D
Phone:575-646-2401
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: rskaggs@nmsu.edu
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"The U.S. National Animal Identification System (NAIS) & the U.S. Beef-Cattle Sector: A Post-Mortem Analysis of NAIS"Link to Dr. Skaggs' chapter: "The U.S. National Animal Identification System (NAIS) & the U.S. Beef-Cattle Sector: A Post-Mortem Analysis of NAIS" in the book Deploying RFID - Challenges, Solutions, and Open Issues.
Rhonda Skaggs is involved in the following research initiatives at NMSU:
L. Allen Torell
Allen Torell is a professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He holds a BS in Agricultural Education and a MS in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nevada and a PhD in Economics from Utah State University.
Torell's expertise is in: computer applications, farm and ranch management, public land policy, natural resources economics, and ranch/range economics. His areas of special interest are: Range Economics, Resource Economics, Ranch Planning, Production Economics, Agricultural Policy, and Operations Research. Torell teaches Advanced Microcomputer Applications, Production Economics and Econometrics.
Office: GT 379C
Phone:575-646-4732
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: atorell@nmsu.edu
Frank Ward
Frank Ward is a Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department at New Mexico State University. He holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Economics from Colorado State University.
Ward's expertise is water policy. He is the author of numerous journal articles, research reports, and book chapters. Ward has written two books: Valuing Nature with Travel Cost Models. 2000 with D.J. Beal published by Edward Elgar (UK) and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Prentice-Hall, scheduled for 2005.
Ward teaches Water Resource Economics and Natural Resource Economics.
Office: GT 371
Phone: 575-646-1220
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: fward@nmsu.edu
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Drip Irrigation May Not Save Water Analysis FindsA new analysis suggests that subsidies and other policies that encourage conservation methods like drip irrigation can actually increase water consumption.