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AGEC 3810 Domestic Agricultural Economics Tour Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

AGEC 4333 Commodity Futures Markets Prerequisites: AGEC 3213 and AGEC 3333. Description: The economics of commodity futures markets. The vocabulary of futures markets and the mechanics of trading and hedging. Basis and producer marketing strategies. Fundamental analysis and statistical analysis of data. Technical analysis, behavioral finance, efficient market hypothesis and basics of option pricing. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 4343 International Agricultural Markets and Trade (I) Prerequisites: AGEC 1113 or ECON 2103. Description: Contemporary international agricultural trade theory and applications. Tools to identify, evaluate critically, and seek solutions to complex international trade and development problems, such as gains from trade, comparative advantage, impacts of trade barriers on social welfare, export promotion effectiveness, trade impacts on environment and land degradation, free trade areas and impacts of genetically modified crops on trade. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics General Education and other Course Attributes: International Dimension AGEC 4403 Advanced Farm and Ranch Management Prerequisites: AGEC 3603 or concurrent. Description: The development of problem solving and risk management skills needed on the modern farm or ranch. Use of spreadsheets to perform production planning and analysis of farm and ranch problems with linear programming, simulations, and other tools. Analysis of the acquisition of resources and the use of information systems in managing the individual farm or ranch business. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Other: 2 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Discussion, Combined lecture & discussion, Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 4423 Advanced Agribusiness Management Prerequisites: AGEC 3333, AGEC 3603, or FIN 3113 or concurrent. Description: Application of modern decision theory in the uncertain environment that the agricultural business operates. Planning, organizing, implementing, coordinating, and controlling problems associated with establishing an agricultural business, achieving firm growth and operating the firm through time. Use of spreadsheets to perform production planning and analysis related to agricultural business operation with linear programming, simulations, and other tools. Analysis of the interaction of resources, prices and production alternatives. Previously offered as AGEC 4323. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics

Description: An integrated approach to the cultural, agricultural, historical, technological, political and economic backgrounds of an agricultural region of the United States. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 3 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3 Contact hours: Lecture: 1

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 3990 Special Problems in Agricultural Economics

Description: Directed study of selected agricultural economics topics. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 3 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3

Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Independent Study

Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 4101 Agricultural Economics Seminar Prerequisites: Senior standing and agricultural economics or agribusiness major status. Description: Contemporary problems in agricultural economics. Previously offered as AGEC 4911. Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 4213 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics Prerequisites: AGEC 3213, AGEC 3333 and MATH 2103. Description: Quantitative analysis of agricultural supply and demand in situations involving risk and uncertainty within the institutional setting of agricultural markets. Use of spreadsheets to perform regression analysis and simulation of potential market outcomes. Analysis of specific agricultural market cases with written and oral presentation of the results. Previously offered as AGEC 3203. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics AGEC 4243 Researching Consumer Food Preferences Prerequisites: AGEC 1113 and ANSI 1124 or FDSC 1133 and STAT 2013 or STAT 2023 or STAT 4013. Description: Design, implementation, and interpretation of research in consumer food preferences. Includes design of consumer surveys, conducting consumer interviews, preparing food and questionnaires for taste-test experiments, targeting and recruiting scientifically valid samples, the statistical analysis of data, and communication of results. Previously offered as FDSC 4243. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Agricultural Economics