Wesley N. Musser

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Wesley N. Musser
Professor and Farm Management Specialist
Phone: 301-405-0017 Office: 2213 Symons Hall
E-mail: wmusser@arec.umd.edu Personal Web Page
 
             
          
Education:

B.S. 1967, University of Nebraska: Agricultural Honors
M.S. 1968, University of Nebraska: Agricultural Economics
Ph.D. 1974, University of California, Berkeley: Agricultural Economics

Research: Farm Risk and Financial Management.
Extension Programs: Crop Insurance; Farm Financial and Risk Management; Cost of Production.  
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Selected Publications:

 

Hanson, Gregory D., Robert L. Parsons, and Wesley N. Musser. AA Transition Finance
Training Program.@ Agricultural Finance Review. 62(2002): 179-89.

McNew, Kevin, and Wesley N. Musser. AFarmer Forward Pricing Behavior: Evidence from Marketing Clubs.@ Agricultural and Resource Economic Review. 31(2002):200-210.

Patrick, George F., and Wesley N. Musser. AChoice Dilemmas and Risk Management Education.@ Journal of Extension. 40(2002). http://www.joe.org/joe/2002june/iw1.html

Musser, Wesley N., George F. Patrick, and Stanton Ullerich. ADemonstrating Differences in Risk Attitudes.@ 2002 Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Pages 15-20.

Lynch, Lori, and Wesley N. Musser. AA Relative Efficiency Analysis of Farmland Preservation Programs.@ Land Economics. 77(2001): 577-94.

Parsons, Robert L., Gregory D. Hanson, Wesley N. Musser,  Roland Freund, and Lehan Power.
AA Financial Training Program for USDA/FSA Borrowers: Evolution and Impacts.@ Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 29(2000): 240-50.

Patrick, George F., Wesley N. Musser, and David T. Eckman.  AForward Marketing Practices and Attitudes of Large Scale Midwestern Grain Producers.@  Review of Agricultural Economics.  20(1998):38-53.

Hanson, Gregory, Robert Parsons, Wesley Musser, and Lehan Power. AImpact Analysis of Farm Finance Workshops.@ Journal of Extension. 36 (3)(1998).

Musser, Wesley N., and George F. Patrick. AHow Much Does Risk Really Matter to Farmers?@ In A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk  in U.S. Agriculture. Richard E. Just and Rulon D. Pope (eds.). Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, 2002, pp. 537-56.

McNew, Kevin, and Wesley Musser. AEvidence of Farmer Forward Pricing Behavior.@ In NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management, Ted C. Schroeder (ed.). Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, May 24, 1999, pp. 191-202.

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