David E. Kenyon Professor Emeritus Marketing and Price Analysis Ph.D. 1971, University of California-Davis E-mail: dkenyon@vt.edu

Dave Kenyon joined the faculty in 1970. He conducts research on agricultural pricing issues, price risk management strategies, futures and cash market price relationships, interregional competition, and supply and demand responses in agricultural markets. Current research projects include assessing the ability of farmers to estimate prices, long-term evaluation of hedging, strategy performance, and determining the economic impacts of environmental regulations on animal agriculture.

Professor Kenyon teaches the graduate course in futures and options markets and undergraduate courses in agriculture marketing and price analysis. He also conducts an extension program in price risk management and price outlook and works closely with several commodity groups in helping formulate government policy to improve the competitive position of Virginia agriculture.

Professor Kenyon has received the AAEA award for Quality of Research Discovery (1976) for his work "Short-term Acreage Projection Model Including Price and Policy Impacts" (with Sam Evans) and the AAEA award for Distinguished Group Extension Program (1986) for Agricultural Commodity Options: A Teachers Guide" (with John C. McKissick, George A. Shumaker, F. W. Williams, and John C. Ikerd). He has also received the 1990 Southern Agricultural Economics Association awards for Distinguished Professional Contribution in Teaching and Distinguished Professional Contribution in Extension. At Virginia Tech, Dave was elected to the Academy of Teaching Excellence in 1979 and received the Wine Award for Teaching Excellence in 1982.

Selected Publications:

"Forecasting Performance of Corn and Soybean Harvest Futures Contracts" (with Eluned Jones and Anya McGuirk), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75 (May 1993): 399-407.

"Multiple-Year Pricing Strategies for Corn and Soybeans" (with Charlie Beckman), The Journal of Futures Markets, Vol. 17, No. 8, 909-934 (1997).

"Producer Ability to Forecast Harvest Corn and Soybean Prices, Review of Agricultural Economics, Spring/Summer 2001.

Poultry Litter for Corn Exchange Program for Virginia (with Beth Ann Pelletier), Virginia Cooperative Extension Publication 448-246/REAP R048, July 2000, 31 pages.