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Overview

  • I serve as the director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, associate dean in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, and professor of economics. I am responsible for helping facilitate research, outreach, and engagement success of faculty and staff associated with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station.

    I am an agricultural economist who is interested in agricultural marketing, farm management, policy, and agribusiness risk management. My published and on-going research focuses on a broad range of issues, including crop price dynamics and forecasting, market valuation of food quality characteristics, management of invasive species and pests, farm policy analysis, crop insurance, fertilizer market dynamics, wine pricing, co-operatives, among others. I also work with interdisciplinary teams of scientists to analyze the agronomic and economic effectiveness of alternative cropping systems, trade-offs of alternative soil management strategies, and cover crops.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2021 Quality forecasts: Predicting when and how much markets value higher-protein wheat.  Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.  69:465-490. 2021
    2021 The Impacts of Biofuel Policies on Spatial and Vertical Price Relationships in the US Fertilizer Industry.  Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.  43:802-822. 2021
    2020 The Impact of Trade Openness on Relative Equipment Prices: Lessons from Latin America.  Economica.  87:938-984. 2020
    2020 The Role of Spatial Density and Technological Investment on Optimal Pricing Strategies in the Grain Handling Industry.  Review of Industrial Organization.  57:27-58. 2020
    2020 Are Fertilizer Capacity Expansion Announcements #FakeNews?.  Choices.  Quarter 2. 2020
    2020 The History, Consolidation, and Future of the U.S. Nitrogen Fertilizer Production Industry.  Choices.  Quarter 2. 2020
    2020 Households' public library use across the school calendar.  Library and Information Science Research.  42:101012-101012. 2020
    2019 Agro‐Economic Returns were Reduced for Four Years after Conversion from Perennial Forage.  Agronomy Journal.  111:2293-2302. 2019
    2019 Does Farm Size Matter? Distribution of Crop Insurance Subsidies and Government Program Payments across U.S. Farms.  Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.  41:498-518. 2019
    2019 An alternative approach to measuring demand changes in meat markets.  International Food and Agribusiness Management Review.  22:397-412. 2019
    2019 Don't Judge a Wine by Its Closure: Price Premiums for Corks in the U.S. Wine Market.  Journal of Wine Economics.  14:3-25. 2019
    2018 Modeling Joint Dependence of Invasive Pests: The Case of the Wheat Stem Sawfly.  Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.  42:172-194. 2018
    2017 Fallow replacement and alternative nitrogen management for reducing nitrate leaching in a semiarid region.  Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems.  108:279-296. 2017
    2017 Revisiting the determinants of futures contracts success: the role of market participants.  Agricultural Economics: the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.  48:175-185. 2017
    2016 Crime and punishment: the role of student body characteristics in schools’ disciplinary behaviours.  Applied Economics.  48:1402-1415. 2016
    2016 Forecasting a Moving Target: The Roles of Quality and Timing for Determining Northern U.S. Wheat Basis.  Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.  41:25-41. 2016
    2015 Decoupling direct payments: potential impacts of the 2014 farm bill on farm debt.  Agricultural Finance Review.  75:434-449. 2015
    2015 Intensification of dryland cropping systems for bio-feedstock production: Evaluation of agronomic and economic benefits of Camelina sativa.  Industrial Crops and Products.  71:114-121. 2015
    2015 On understanding inconsistent disciplinary behaviour in schools.  Applied Economics Letters.  22:772-776. 2015
    2015 Pea in Rotation with Wheat Reduced Uncertainty of Economic Returns in Southwest Montana.  Agronomy Journal.  107:541-550. 2015
    2015 The role of simulations in econometrics pedagogy.  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics.  7:160-165. 2015
    2014 Coal power plant emission exposure and its effect on education access.  Journal of Public Health: Zeitschrift fuer Gesundheitswissenschaften.  22:313-321. 2014
    2014 Tillage of Cover Crops Affects Soil Water, Nitrogen, and Wheat Yield Components.  Agronomy Journal.  106:1497-1508. 2014
    Can Equitable Punishment Be Mandated? Estimating Impacts of Sentencing Guidelines on Disciplinary Disparities.  SSRN Electronic Journal. 
    Impacts of Agricultural Management Systems on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Highly Simplified Dryland Landscapes.  Sustainability.  11:3223-3223.
    Vulnerability of dryland agricultural regimes to economic and climatic change.  Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability.  23.

    Full Name

  • Anton Bekkerman

    • Mailing Address

  • University of New Hampshire

    46 College Road

    Durham, NH  03824

    United States