Faculty
Member Information
Gregory McKee
About Dr. McKee
Gregory McKee's teaching and research interests address inter-firm relationships in food and agricultural business economics. Topics of interest include: financial performance of cooperative businesses; management of cooperative businesses; marketing activities of cooperative businesses; contracting and vertical integration in agriculture and agribusiness; and changes in the mechanisms used by agribusiness to establish relationships with their customer base. Dr. McKee is also interested in the economics of invasive species management, including the cost and benefit of policies designed to manage invasive species and the information requirements to develop such policies. He teaches courses in cooperative business management and in agribusiness industrial strategy. Research projects have been supported by the USDA-ERS, the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, and the North Dakota Famers Union. He is a member of the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Western Agricultural Economics Association, and the Association of Cooperative Educators.
Teaching/education/research areas
Cooperative
business model
Industrial
organization in agribusiness
Invasive species management
Selected publications or working
papers
The Financial Performance of ND Agricultural
Cooperatives
Bioeconomic Modeling of
an Invasive Species Control Problem in Agriculture
The Development, Operation, and Dissolution
of a Value-added Cooperative:
United Spring Wheat Processors
A
Dynamic Model of Greenhouse Whitefly Management
Education
B.A., Brigham
Young University, Economics, 1998
M.S., University of California,
Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003
Ph.D., University
of California, Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006.
Fields of study: Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource
Economics Doctoral advisors: R.E. Goodhue, J.A. Chalfant, and
C.A. Carter, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics;
F.G. Zalom, Department of Entomology.
Office Address
Morrill Hall 205A
Fargo, ND 58105-5636
Contact Information
Office: (701) 231-8521
Fax: (701) 231-7400
Email Address
gregory.mckee@ndsu.edu
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