John V. Westra, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness
101 Agricultural Administation Building
Louisiana State University AgCenter
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5604
Phone: 225-578-2721
Fax: 225-578-2716
jwestra@agcenter.lsu.edu
John Westra
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Louisiana State University where he conducts research and delivers extension programming related to how agricultural and environmental policies influence farm management decisions and how those decisions affect income from farming, natural resources and environmental quality. Prior to LSU, he was an Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College in Minnesota where he taught courses Natural Resource Economics. He received a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota (2001), an MS in Agricultural Economics at the University of Maine (1991), and a BA in Psychology at Grinnell College in Grinnell Iowa (1984).
Areas of Work:
Multifunctionality of agriculture, environmental services from agriculture, bio-economic modeling, agricultural conservation and environmental policy, environmental economics, production economics.
Curriculum Vitae:
JohnWestra_cv.pdf
(87KB PDF)
