Charles Moss • BioSketch

Chuck grew up on a cattle and wheat farm in Western Oklahoma. He received his B.S. in Agricultural Economics and Accounting from Oklahoma State University in 1982 and his M.S. in Agricultural Economics in 1984. He continued his studies in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and received his Ph.D. in 1987. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida's Food and Resource Economics Department in September of 1987 in a research and teaching position in agricultural finance and policy analysis. His research has primarily focused on the areas of financial risk and stress in the farm sector. In addition, he has applied his quantitative skills to problems including water resource management, timber resources, citrus crop decisions, coffee marketing in Mexico, trade issues in sugar, analysis of technology adoption including precision agriculture, invasive species and agricultural productivity measures. These research activities have produced 200 research publications including six edited volumes, 27 book chapters, and 95 refereed journal articles. Chuck had the privilege to serve as a McKethan-Matherly fellow in the Economics Department at the University of Florida from 1989-1994 working with the late Professor Henri Theil and is an affiliate member of the Center for Applied Optimization and the Center for Latin American Studies, both at the University of Florida. In 2006, Chuck received the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Outstanding Journal Article award with Steve Blank and Kenneth Erickson. In addition, he received the American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Research Discovery Award in 2007 for research in collaboration with Grigorios Livanis, Vincent Breneman, and Richard Nehring and that associations Quality of Communication Award in 2013 in collaboration with Allen Featherstone and Christine Wilson. In 2013, Charles was recognized with the Southern Agricultural Economics Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Chuck has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Chuck enjoys teaching and has had the opportunity to develop several courses, including graduate level courses in Agricultural Finance, Agricultural Risk Analysis and Decision Making, Static and Dynamic Optimization, Optimal Control, Mathematical Programming, Production Economics, Statistics for Food and Resource Economics, and Econometric Methods II. He has served on 20 graduate student committees, including students from Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo and Vanderbilt University in addition the University of Florida. In addition to courses, Chuck has authored four textbooks - Risk, Uncertainty and the Agricultural Firm (2010), Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking Behaviour (2010), Agricultural Finance (2013), and Mathematical Statistics for Applied Econometrics (2014).

Chuck has also been successful in funding research interests through competitive grants including three USDA/National Research Initiative grants to study competitiveness in Agricultural Credit Markets, Crop Patterns and Water Use under Free Trade, and the effect of Vertical Integration on U.S. Sugar Policy. In addition, to the NRI grants, he has secured funding from the USDA/ERS to work on measurement of the agricultural land input in the USDA's production accounts. On a more local level, he has worked with both the Northwest Florida Water Management District and the Saint Johns River Water Management District to estimate agricultural and household water demand in those regions.

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