Food Insecurity in the Northern Great Plains
On October 22, 2019, the Urban Institute published an interactive study that describes county-level food…
Author Anton Bekkerman
Anton Bekkerman
Dr. Anton Bekkerman is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University, joining the faculty in 2009 after completing his PhD at North Carolina State University. Bekkerman's primary areas of research are grain marketing, basis and price forecast modeling, understanding how grain prices are affected by changes in supply chain infrastructures and quality demands, and analyzing the economic trade-offs of adopting alternative dryland cropping systems in Montana. One of his current projects is an investigation of how new grain loading technologies are affecting prices that Montana farmers receive for their wheat. Bekkerman is also examining the economic impacts that Montana's rapidly expanding dry pulse industry will have on the state's crop industry. Although Bekkerman grew up on the east coast, he has recently made a small step toward production agricultural after acquiring three backyard chickens.
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New Tool for Tracking Wheat Prices and Basis: msuextension.org/basis
Note: This post also appears in the latest issue of Lives and Landscapes. The MSU…
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Meghan Brence, recent graduate of Montana State University’s Agricultural Business program, contributed to this post.…