Office: KRAN 784C
Phone: 765-494-4323
Fax: 765-494-4333
Email: gray@purdue.edu
Courses I Teach
I teach two courses in the department including an Applied Simulation in the Agriculture Industry course and a Quantitative Analysis course in the Executive MBA program. Extensive WEB based course materials have been developed for the Simulation and Quantitative Analysis courses.
I invite you to take a look at the material on these WEB sites. The Applied Simulation course is not password protected. The Quantitative Analysis Course is password protected and can be accessed temporarily through the following login and password:
login: guest
password: emba
Quantitative Analysis(Note: These web pages were designed for our students using Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher with a resolution of at least 800 x 600)
Presentation on Teaching Quantitative Analysis at a Distance
Extension Program
My Extension programming efforts center around agribusiness strategic management and agricultural policy analysis. I work with faculty in the Center for Food and Agricultural Business as well as other faculty in the department to create extension and outreach materials that deal with strategic decision-making in production agriculture, agricultural cooperatives, producer organizations, and other agribusiness. In addition, I develop materials dealing with agricultural policy that examine both the political and economic consequences of alternative farm policies and their impacts on Indiana agriculture. Below I have provided links to pages containing some of my work in both of these areas. These links provide access to written documents as well as PowerPoint presentations that I have given to various audiences.
Strategic Management Agricultural Policy
Research Program
My research program focuses on improving strategic planning for agribusiness firms in a risky economic environment and implications of alternative farm policies. A number of projects relate to this research thrust, focusing on issues such as strategic cooperative equity management, strategic implications of identity preserved grains, impacts of technology on retail agronomic firms, impacts of structural change and farm policy on the agricultural industry. The general nature of my research is applied problem-solving for agribusiness and is an integral part of extension programming efforts. The link below provides access to research articles that I have been involved with.
Link to Research Associate's website
