Founded: 1937
Full Time:
Part Time:
Budget: 1,536,393.00
Director: Kenneth W. Paxton
101 Agriculture Administration--LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Telephone: 504/388-3282 FAX: 504/388-2716 E-Mail: akpaxt@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu
Research Areas:
The Center's mission statement is to create, expand, apply, and disseminate knowledge on a wide range of economic and business issues and problems in agriculture, policy, natural resource use, rural areas, agribusiness for the benefit of the people of Louisiana, the nation, and the global community through teaching, research, and service programs, as advanced by the Land Grant University System.
On-going projects include: economic issues affecting the U. S. fruit and vegetable system; impact analyses and decision strategies for agricultural research; dynamic econometric modeling of U. S. and Louisiana grain markets; the role of property rights in incentive based environmental management for agriculture; an economic analysis of rural real estate market activity in Louisiana; an evaluation of international markets for southern commodities; the agricultural economic effects of multilateral trade agreements and regional trading blocks; economic impacts of changing patterns of vertical coordination on agribusiness in Louisiana; firm level decision making strategies for animal agriculture producers under risk and uncertainty; competitiveness and sustainability of the Louisiana milk production, pricing, and marketing system; private strategies, public policies, and food systems performance; modeling fiscal and public service impacts of changes in economic activity on Louisiana communities; economic analysis of rice production and farm management in Louisiana; economic evaluation of production and management decisions on Louisiana sugarcane farms; consumer and meat handler attitudes toward compulsory country-or-origin labeling of fresh meats; Louisiana agricultural statistics and economic perspectives; food demand, nutrition and consumer behavior; modeling the economic policies on southern agriculture.
Areas of Expertise:
Agricultural economics, agricultural business, agricultural finance, production economics and mangement, agricultural policy, econometrics/forecasting, international trade, economics of the environment, regional economics, marketing, land valuation, natural resource economics, and geographic information systems.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The staff includes sixteen Agricultural Economists all with Ph.D.'s. Each one has disciplinary expertise in one or more of the areas of research expertise. Special facilities are the Geographical Information System Laboratory with four major workstations and a large digitizing surface, linked to a University with a geo-referenced database through the fiber optic network.
Research Equipment:
Eight state-of-the-art micro-computers equipped with curent software for geo-referenced data analysis. Approval of the LSU Agricultural Center and Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station for use is possible via grant or contract if such activity contributes to the mission and program of the Department.
Keywords:
0408001 Agricultural Economics
0202005 Food Distribution
0201049 Production Economics and Management
0408002 Econometrics/Forecasting
0201006 Agricultural Management
0408012 Regional Economics
0202011 Food Marketing
0408014 Economics of Research and Development
0202019 Food and Trade Policy
0408015 Economics of Environment
0201005 Agricultural Finance
0408041 Economic Competitiveness
0201006 Agricultural Planning/Policy
0408042 Trade
0202004 Food Consumption
0908028 Marketing
1007022 Natural Resources
0901029 Marketing Research
1007023 Natural Resource Management
0901099 Rural Development
0408042 Trade