Summer 2024

• Amadeo Panyi (Ph.D.) - Three Essays on Cattle Production and Marketing Economics: Pasture Establishment, Calf Management Practices, and Regional Differences in Valuation of Calf Attributes - Kellie Raper

• Pratikshya Silwal (Ph.D.) - Three Essays on Consumers Preference for Potting Mix Containing Eastern RedCedar Biochar, Bias in Direct and Indirect Questioning, and Dialectic Valuation method for Prediction - Bailey Norwood

• Amrit Dumre (M.S.) - Drivers of Willingness to Consume Carbon-Friendly Beef and Plant-Based Meat - Deepthi Kolady

• Ephraim Muyombo (M.S.) - NASA's FLDAS Soil Moisture Data as an Index for Forage Crop Insurance and Disaster Protection Programs - Wade Brorsen

• Gary Wynne (M.S.) - From Startup to Stability in Rural Counties: An Assessment of Support Organizations' Impact on Small Business Creation and Maturation - Brian Whitacre

 

Spring 2024

• Ashley Beeler (Ph.D.) - Impact of Countervailing Duties on Phosphate Fertilizer and Analysis of a Cooperative Grain Alliance - Phil Kenkel

• Chellie Hogan (Ph.D.) - Three Essays on Oklahoma Agriculture: Grassland Conservation Initiative's Effects on Land Allocation, Cropping System performance & Weed Pressure, Managing Herbicide Resistance for Wheat-Double Crop Systems - Dayton Lambert

• Nathan Dethloff (M.S.) - Economic Comparison of Beef Cattle Marketing Strategies for Oklahoma Producers - Courtney Bir

• Sheriff Hassan (M.S.) - How Accurate Are People's Assessments of Inter-seasonal Temperature Change? - Dayton Lambert

• Sidany Hilburn (M.S.) - Perceptions and Property Values: The Impacts of Medical Marijuana on Rural Oklahoma - Brian Whitacre

• Emmanuel Honny (M.S.) - Economic Feasibility of Establishing a Watermelon Packing Cooperative in Southwest Oklahoma - Lixia Lambert

• Tuff Johnson (M.S.) - An Evaluation of Soybean Management in Oklahoma - Hannah Shear

• Halle Roper (M.S.) - The Impact of Corn Market Conditions of Cattle Demand for Feed Grains - Hannah Shear

• Macy Rosselle (M.S.) - The Effects of Class-action Lawsuit on California Glyphosate Usage - Aleks Schaefer

• Nicholas Scribner (M.S.) - Identifying Consumer Awareness of Meat Product Labels Using 3-D Eye-tracking Technology - Rodney Holcomb

 

Summer 2023

Christina Biedny (Ph.D.) - Exploring the Relationship Between Highspeed Broadband Internet and Economic Development: Three Essays on Availability and Impact - Brian Whitacre

 

Spring 2023

• Ryan Loy (Ph.D.) - Incorporating Flavor in a Wheat Breeding Program - Bailey Norwood

• Hannah Baker (M.S.) - Patch-Burning and Grazing: An Economic Analysis of Rangeland Management of Oklahoma Cow-Calf Producers - Hannah Shear

• Grace Baxter (M.S.) - Targeting Prime: Examining the Economic Elements Behind Wagyu-Influenced Cattle - Kellie Raper

• Jenna Bryant (M.S.) - Borrower Perceptions of Additional Lender Services: An Oklahoma AgCredit Example - Eric DeVuyst

• Kristina Harwell (M.S.) - Factors Affecting Respiratory Vaccination of Beef Cattle in Oklahoma - Amy Hagerman

• George Cole Patterson (M.S.) - Using Informative Bayesian Priors and On-Farm Experimentation to Predict Optimal Site-Specific Nitrogen Rates - Wade Brorsen

• Alicia Young (M.S.) - Factors Affecting Crop Insurance Use Among Underserved Producers - Cheryl DeVuyst

• Jacob Base (M.Ag) - Creative Component: - Wade Brorsen

• Sarah Kearns (M.Ag) - Creative Component: The Humane Society of Stillwater: Donor Database Dilemma - Bailey Norwood

• Jack Long (M. Ag) - Creative Component: Dual Use Wheat and Risk Management Alternatives for Oklahoma Cattle Producers - Derrell Peel

• Gavin McReynolds (M.Ag) - Creative Component - A Sensitivity Analysis Using a Fully Integrated Financial Model for OSU's Thermal Energy Storage System Initiative - John Michael Riley

• Gretchen Skaja (M.Ag) - Formal Report: Entrepreneurship Roadmap: Key Stages of Developing Business - Rodney Holcomb

• Gavin Stika (M.Ag) - Professional Internship with Boise Valley Feeders in Parma, Idaho - Wade Brorsen

• Jakob Uribe (M.Ag) - Creative Component is Career Liaison Schedule Optimization using GAMSIDE - Wade Brorsen

 

Fall 2022

• Joo Hun Han (Ph.D.) – The Impact of Aging and Underemployment on Income Disparity and Professional Networks and Technology Adoption; Advisor – Chanjin Chung

• Tori Marshall (Ph.D.) – Agricultural Firm Resilience to Disasters Domestically and Abroad: Applications in Animal Health; Advisor – Amy Hagerman

• Davood Poursina (Ph.D.) – Whole Farm Experimentation: Making It Profitable; Advisor – Wade Brorsen

 

Summer 2022

• Whoi Cho (Ph.D.) – COMBINING TWO SAMPLING METHODS, BAYESIAN MULTILEVEL MODELING, AND BUILD-MAINTENANCE SOIL PHOSPHORUS; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Yejun Choi (Ph.D.) – Analyses of Market Power for US and International Beef Markets; Advisor - Dayton Lambert

• Edwin Coleman (M.S.) – IMPACT OF CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS FROM AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE SOUTHERN PLAINS; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Claudia Alejandra Mendoza (Ph.D) – Three Essays on Rural Health Economics; Advisor - Brian Whitacre

• JeongSeung Kim (Ph.D.) – Intertemporal Change in Cost Efficiency and Its Determinants Using a Base Period Approach: An Evidence from Korean Rice Farms; Advisor - Chanjin Chung

• Miyeon Son (Ph.D.) – Two Essays on Equilibrium Displacement Models; Advisor - Dayton Lambert

 

Spring 2022

• Lindsey Ashinhurst (M.S.) – The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Assistance Requests at an Oklahoma Food Pantry; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Glenn Conover (M.S.) – Measuring Technical and Economic Efficiency of Rainfed Double Cropping Systems in the Southern Great Plains; Advisor - Lixia Lambert

• Greg Garrison (M.S.) – Cell Based Meat Budget and Igenity Panel Scores in a Cow-Calf Operation; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Emma Hayhurst (M.S.) – Resilience of Grain Storage Markets to Upheaval in Futures Markets; Advisor - Wade Brorsen 

• Ralph Jean-Pierre (M.S.) – An analysis of African Swine Fever Consequences on Rural Economies and Smallholder Swine Producers in Haiti; Advisor - Amy Hagerman

• Seokil Lee (Ph.D.) – PROBABILITY OF MIGRATION OF SUGARCANE APHID, CORRELATION OF WEATHER VARIABLES, AND IMPACT ON SORGHUM INFESTATION IN OKLAHOMA; Advisor - Jeff Vitale

• Camryn Lucas (M.S.) – Honey Production: What's the Buzz? Advisor - Notie Lansford

• Michael (Ethan) McGill (M.S.) – The Oklahoma Stocker Cattle Industry: Structure and Function; Advisor - Derrell Peel

• Jacob Sestak (M.S.) – Economics of Cover Crops, Tillage, and Cool-Season Grazing in Southern Great Plains Cattle Operations; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Sarah Spradlin (M.S.) – The Role of Beef Imports in the United States; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Erica Wiebe (M.S.) – A Preliminary Biological and Economic Analysis of Capsaicin Feed Additive in Feedlot Rations; Advisor - Eric DeVuyst

• Brock Wright (M. Ag.) – Internship; Advisor - Cheryl DeVuyst

 

Fall 2021

• Mengyu Yin (Ph.D.) – Essays on Horn Fly Control Economics in Stocker Cattle, Stocker Cattle Producer Purchasing Preferences, and Food Insecurity During Covid-19; Advisor - Kellie Raper

 

Summer 2021

• Yikuan Chen (M.S.) – Spatial Patterns in Hard Red Winter Wheat Quality and Basis; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Haotian Cheng (Ph.D.) – Consumer Choice Models Applied on a Biobased Product; Advisor - D. Lambert

• Kayla Hildebrand (Ph.D.) – Accounting for Attention Changes in Discrete Choice Experiments and Modeling Adverse Selection in the Cattle Procurement Market; Advisor - Chanjin Chung

• Amanda Upton (M.S.) – Evaluating Producer Decision Making Surrounding Calving Date in the U.S. Southern Plains; Advisor - Courtney Bir

 

Spring 2021

• Hallie Barnes (M.Ag.) – Creative Component - Benefit-Cost Analysis of Cattle Handling Facilities and Equipment for Calf Management Practice Adoption; Advisor - Kellie Raper

• Xuecheng Cai (M.S.) – Estimation of Postharvest Loss in the U.S. Wheat Supply Chain: Cost Benefit Analysis for Sensor-Monitoring System; Advisor - Phil Kenkel

• Robert Hemphill (M.S.) – The Desirability of Beef Sustainability and Traceability from the Perspective of Cow-Calf Producers; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Kayla Hintze (M.S.) – Economic Feasibility of Mixed-Species Grazing to Improve Rangeland Productivity; Advisor - Derrell Peel

• Yancheng Li (M.S.) – The Impact of Economic Growth on Adult Obesity Rates in Rural America; Advisor - Brian Whitacre

• Katie Welch (M.S.) – Economic Contribution and Impact Analysis of the 2019 Flood's Disruption of the Oklahoma McClellan-Kerr Navigation System; Advisor - Dave Shideler

 

Fall 2020

• Guy Buser (M.S.) – M.S. thesis per Holcomb 12-2020 will graduate F20 - Conceptual Design for Switchgrass Production Simulation in a Biomass Supply Chain Using GLADIS 2.0; Advisor - Rodney Holcomb

• Amanda Higgins (M.S.) – Implications of Book Versus Tax Based Patronage for Agricultural Cooperatives; Advisor - Phil Kenkel

• Jessica Richard (Ph.D.) – Three Essays Evaluating Improved Efficiency in a Cooperatively Owned Cotton Warehouse; Advisor - Phil Kenkel

 

Summer 2020

• Logan Britton (Ph.D.) – Evaluating Consumer Survey Responses with Identity Theory and Impacts of Alternative Responses to Foot-And-Mouth Disease in a Large Feedlot; Advisor -Bailey Norwood

• Heydi Calderon Ambelis (M.S.) – Supply Chain Optimization of a Conversion-Ready Biomass Blend For Cellulosic Ethanol Production; Advisor - Rodney Holcomb

• Ryan Loy (M.S.) – Economic Feasibility of an Oklahoma Switchgrass Biorefinery: What Role Does Infrastructure Play? Advisor - Jeff Vitale

 

Spring 2020

• Bernadette Chimai (Ph.D.) – Effects of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act on the Volatility of Fed Cattle Prices and Price Uncertainty in U.S. Fed Cattle; Advisor - Chajin Chung

• Chun Du (M.S.) – Chinese Consumer Preferences For and Attitudes Towards Pecans; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Jung min Lee (Ph.D.) – Estimating Market Power of Agricultural and Food Industries: An Issue of Data Aggregation Bias; Advisor - Chanjin Chung

• Barrett Moore (M.S.) – The Effect of A Transitional Diet on Stocker Heifers Grazing Wheat Pasture; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Meredith Munson (M.S.) – Economic Comparison of Angus, Red Angus, and Aberdeen Cow-Calf production; Advisor - Eric DeVuyst

• Kaitlin Ramy (M.S.) – Perishable Food Date Label Best Practices and Consumer Willingness to Reduce Food Waste; Advisor - John Micheal Riley

• Gianni Ricci (M.S.) – A Sensory Analysis of Native, Kanza, and Pawnee Pecans; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Ty Smith (M.S.) – A Different Analysis of Rural Development's Business and Industry Loan Guarantee Program: The Impact on Tax Revenue in Oklahoma Communities; Advisor - Dayton Lambert

• Heng Wei (M.S.) – A Comparative Analysis of Expected Utility of Futures, Options, and Livestock Risk Protection Insurance: Which Hedging Tool is Desirable for Small, Medium, or Large Sized Feeder Cattle Producers Whose Farms are Low, Average, or High Management Risk; Advisor - John Micheal Riley

 

Fall 2019

• Rachel Woods (M.Ag.) – Creative Component - Economically-Optimal Planting Date of Dual-Purpose Wheat in the U.S. Southern Plains; Advisor - Eric DeVuyst

• Guy Buser (M.S.) – Creative Component - Conceptual Design for Switchgrass Production Simulation in a Biomass Supply Chain Using GLADIS 2.0; Advisor – Rodney Holcomb

• Christopher Jurgensmeyer (M.Ag.) – Creative Component - Utilizing Spent Mushroom Compost as a Feed Supplement in a Cow-Calf Operation; Advisor – Rodney Holcomb

• John Ng'ombe (Ph.D.) – Economics of the Greenseeder Hand Planter, Discrete Choice Modeling, and On-Farm Field Experimentation; Advisor – Wade Brorsen

• Heng Wei (M.S.) – A Comparative Analysis of Expected Utility of Futures, Options, and Livestock Risk Protection Insurance: Which Hedging Tool is Desirable for Small, Medium, or Large Sized Feeder Cattle Producers Whose Farms are Low, Average, or High Management Ris; Advisor - John Michael Riley

• Leann Westbrook (M.S.) – Optimal Beef Cow Stocking Rates in the U.S. Southern Plains; Advisor – Eric DeVuyst

• Mengyu Yin (M.S.) – Creative Component - Effect of Colored Shade Cloth Covers on Tomato Production and Economics in High Tunnel Growing Structures; Advisor - Brian Adam

 

Summer 2019

• Sunjin Ahn (Ph.D.) – Three Essays on Food Health and Food Security; Advisor – Bailey Norwood

• Whoi Cho (M.S.) – RI-PRF Crop Insurance Program Design; Advisor – Wade Brorsen

• Ryan Feuz (Ph.D.) – Three Essays: Valuation for and Marketing Spillover of Discolored Beef and Employer Willingness to Pay for Recent College Graduate Attributes; Advisor – Bailey Norwood

• Brian Mills (Ph.D.) – Three Essays on the Profitability of Precision Agriculture; Advisor – Wade Brorsen

• Bart Niyibizi (Ph.D.) – Spatial Smoothing of Corn Yield Trends and Robustness of the Impact of Climate on U.S. Corn Yields; Advisor – Wade Brorsen

• Dongrui He (M.S.) – Source Differentiated Beef Import Demand in China via LA/AIDS Model & China's Soybean Import Demand Analysis via a Differential Production Approach; Advisor – Shida Henneberry

• Machado, Pedro (Ph.D.) – Spatial Price Transmission, Transaction Costs, and Econometric Modelling: How Inference Can Be Improved When Accounting for Information on Transaction Cost? And Modeling Salmonella Spread in Poultry Production: Identifying Determinants and Control Strate; Advisor – Chanjin Chung

• Will Maples (Ph.D.) – Livestock Long Term Forecasting, Metaphylaxis Treatment, and Contracting Incentives; Advisor – Wade Brorsen

• Karthik Ramaswamy (Ph.D.) – Economics of Alternative Groundwater Management Strategies in Oklahoma; Advisor – Jeff Vitale

 

Spring 2019

• Zuhrah Alwahabi (M.S.) – A Food Pantry's Contribution Towards Reducing the Needs; Advisor – Bailey Norwood

• Aaron Ates (Ph.D.) – Three Essays on U.S. Household Food and Diet Preferences; Advisor – Rodney Holcomb

• Lauren Clark (M.S.) – Disaggregating Beef Demand: Data Limitations and Industry Perspectives; Advisor Derrell Peel

• Kelsey Conley (Ph.D.) – Essays on Millennial Food Demand, Community Development Grant Evaluation, and Broadband and Rural Housing Values; Advisor – Brian Whitacre

• Kwideok Han (Ph.D.) – Essays on School Size and Student Performance, Hay Yield and Weather Variation, and Economic Development Program Evaluation; Advisor - Chanjin Chung

• Wuit Yi Lwin (M.S.) – Price Transmission Behavior of Melons Market in China-Myanmar Border Trade and Demand System Analysis of Imported Melons in China Market; Advisor – Shida Henneberry

• Devon Meadowcroft (Ph.D.) – Essays on the Rural Opioid Crisis; Advisor – Brian Whitacre

• Brian Mulenga (Ph.D.) – Modeling Economic Thresholds of Wheat Streak Mosaic, Feedlot Cost of Gain Prediction, and Joint Adoption of Value-Added Cow-Calf Production Practices; Advisor – Kellie Raper

• Garrett Reed (M.S.) – Simulation of Alternative Farm Transition Strategies and Their Probability of Success; Advisor – Shannon Ferrel

 

Fall 2018

• Suling Duan (Ph.D.) – Economically Optimal Timing of Insect Control in Food Processing Facilities: A Real Option Approach; Advisor - Brian Adam

• McReynolds, Hannah (M.S.) – Financial Literacy Representation of Oklahoma State University Students; Advisor - Rodney Jones

 

Summer 2018

• Biedenbach, Abby (M.S.) – Feral Hogs, the Rainfall Index Annual Forage Program, and Pecan Irrigation; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Lee, Jung min (Ph.D.) – Estimating Market Power of Agricultural and Food Industries: An Issue of Data Aggregation Bias; Advisor - Chanjin Chung

• Lee, Kangil (Ph.D.) – Three Essays in Energy, Environmental and Regional Economics; Advisor - Brian Whitacre

 

Spring 2018

• Mark Buda (Ph.D.) – Economic Analysis of Structural Change in Feedlot Cattle Death Loss; Advisor - Kellie Raper

• Crossan, Zachary (M.Ag.) – Creative Component - Human Resource Management Practices in Agricultural Cooperatives; Advisor - Phil Kenkel

• Candi Ge (Ph.D.) – Precision Agriculture and Information Technology: The Value of Implementing a Whole-Chain Traceability System to Transfer Information in the Beef Industry and Using Eye-Tracking Technology to Improve Conjoint Analysis; Advisor - Brian Adam

• Hurt, Courtney (M.S.) – Market Failure in Disease Control: Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDv) and the Economic Feasibility of Enhanced Control in the Beef Cattle Industry; Advisor - Derrell Peel

• Manlove, Jacob (Ph.D.) – Three Essays on Broadband Adoption; Advisor - Brian Whitacre

• Osburn, Meagan (M.S.) – The Effects of State Pride and Proximity to State Borders on Consumer Demand for State Labeled Products; Advisor - Rodney Holcomb

• Stefenoni, Joe (M.S.) – An Exploration of the Effects of Beginning Debt Levels and Low Crop Commodity Prices on the Post Financial Downturn Financial Performance of Representative Crop, Livestock, and Diversified Farms in Oklahoma; Advisor - Rodney Jones

• Yang, Ruoye (Ph.D.) – The Influence of Perception, Recession and Income Strata on Consumer Demand for Protein Sources; Advisor - Kellie Raper

 

Fall 2017

• Jasdeep Banga (Ph.D.) – Machine Learning: A Potential Forecasting Tool; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Wonkyu Cha (Ph.D.) – Essays on Consumer Demand for Recreational Activities; Advisor - Tracy Boyer

• Haotian Cheng (M.S.) – Characteristics that Influence Financially Risky Occupational Choice; Advisor - John Michael Riley

• Tyler Williams (M.Ag.) – Formal report - Cost of Meeting Beef Cattle Nutrition Requirements Considering Hay Quality; Advisor - Damona Doye

 

Spring 2017

• Eryn Bell (M.S.) – Consumer Preference for Willful Ignorance on Animal Welfare Issues Used Swine Production; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Susan Brand (M.Ag.) – Formal Report - Estimating Non-Market Value for the Grand River Watershed; Advisor - Richard Melstrom

• Ahmad Ghaith (Ph.D.) – Economics of Household Solar Panel and Wind Turbine Systems; Advisor - Francis Epplin

• Blayne Horn (M.S.) – Risk Management Cash Requirements and Optimal Marketing Strategies for Winter Grazed Stocker Cattle; Advisor - John Michael Riley

• Kelyn Jacques (M.S.) – Midwesterners' Consumer Preference for Goat Meat in a Blind Sensory Analysis; Advisor - Bailey Norwood

• Patrick Kanza (Ph.D.) – Essays on African Rural Development and Environmental and Natural Resource Policy; Advisor - Jeff Vitale

• Trey Malone (Ph.D.) – Incorporating Behavioral Principles in Primary Data Collection and Analysis with Application to Beer Demand; Advisor - Jayson Lusk

• Clint Neill (Ph.D.) – Essays on Veterinary Economics; Advisor - Rodney Holcomb

• Robert Parrish (M.S.) – Investigating Enterprise Risk Management in the Context of Grain & Farm Supply Cooperatives; Advisor - Phil Kenkel

• Eunchun Park (Ph.D.) – Three Essays on Insurance and Option in Agricultural Economics; Advisor - Wade Brorsen

• Nurul Nadia Ramli (Ph.D.) – Essays on Economic Issues of Eastern Redcedar Encroachment; Advisor - Francis Epplin

• Rapp, Dillon (M.S.) – Applying the Cooperative Model to Veterinary Medicine: A Case Study of Shared Imaging Center; Advisor - Rodney Holcomb

• Meagan Rhodes (M.S.) – Determining Implicit Option Premiums for Government Farm Program Payments; Advisor - Eric DeVuyst