In the 1960s, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union successfully pressured producers into improving agricultural working conditions in California by leading a nationwide boycott of table grapes. The boycott taught farmers that consumers care about more than...
Virgil Bremer knows a thing or two about impeccable timing. Over their one-year anniversary dinner, Bremer shared with his wife that he had decided to leave his 6-year career as a senior research scientist in the animal health industry in favor of running the couple’s...
Yield and price risk take center stage in most discussions surrounding risk in agriculture. While these are obviously important aspects of risk to any farm business, the risks faced by agricultural producers are much broader than prices received for products sold and...
Knowing your customer base is more important than ever, especially when your customer base includes the complex operations run by today’s large-scale commercial agricultural producers. That’s where the Large Commercial Producer Project research from Purdue...
The agri-food industry pays a lot of attention to how assets transfer between generations in farm families. Wills, trusts and estate laws are the subject of financial planning conferences and law seminars. Even so, there are few answers about how is best to manage...
No one understands the importance of resilience more than managers who are trying to be successful in the current business environment. Our complex agri-food system is dynamic and ever changing. Managers and the teams they lead have to be able to positively adapt to...
Successful employees are searching for improvement. They are putting in extra effort and time to make a difference for the company and for themselves. Those employees can make an even better impact on your company if they are given great tools to work with. Providing...
Editor’s note: Dr. Mike Gunderson is an associate director for Purdue University’s Center for Food and Agricultural Business and an associate professor of agricultural economics. He leads a quantitative methods course in the center’s MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness...
Craig Newman, recently retired president and CEO of AgReliant Genetics, is a firm believer in professional development. He’s also partial to Purdue’s ASTA Management Academy because of the way it is tailored specifically to the seed industry. Listen in as...
Thirty Years and Counting We’re celebrating a birthday here at the Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business. As of 2016, we have officially been providing excellence in professional development and executive education for the last 30 years — and we...