Aaron Raymond, December 2006 MBA Agribusiness graduate, worked with Professor Bruce Johnson to create the Farm Lease Calculator through his assistantship provided by the MBA Agribusiness Program. The Farm Lease Calculator is a spreadsheet used to evaluate, analyze, and determine crop production budgets and lease arrangements for the benefit of landowners and tenants.
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Adam George a December 2007 Graduate was featured in the October 21, 2008 "Progressive Dairyman" magazine.
For the full story please visit the article on the Progressive Dairy website.
The first annual MBA Agribusiness Alumni Reunion was held in conjunction with the Iowa State vs. Nebraska Football game on September 29. A pre-game tailgate started the weekend celebration. A dinner following the game at the East Campus Union ended the reunion. Plans are currently being made for the 2008 event.
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(Back: Dr. Ray Supalla, Professor Ag Economics, Chris Kerr, ConAgra, Scott Nedved Pioneer Hybrid Inc., Adam George, current MBA Agribusiness student, Matt Weber, MBA Agribusiness Alumni, Dr. Dennis Conley, MBA Agribusiness Program Director & Professor Ag Economics.
Front: Lance Cummins-Brown, MBA Agribusiness Program Coordinator, Matt Wiegand, MBA Agribusiness Alumni, Ryan Brewster, Western Dairy Council)
Matt Weeder, a current MBA Agribusiness student from Lindsay, NE recently completed The Valuations and Buffett Investment Methodology finance elective offered through UNL's MBA program. Here are Matt's comments on the course. "The course taught us how to value a company the way Buffett does and replicate these methods as closely as we could by applying Buffet's investment tenets and picking our own stocks for a portfolio. It was very valuable information with real life application for many of us trying to arrive at sound value measurements for companies amid all this financial turmoil.
As part of the course Matt and his fellow classmates were able to spend several hours with Warren Buffett. Here are Matt's comments on his visit with Warren Buffett.
"The visit was once in a lifetime! It was truly incredible to be in the presence of such a knowledgeable, well-versed, and yet absolutely down-to-earth person."
Neil Donovan, a recent graduate of the agribusiness MBA program, accompanied Governor
Dave Heineman on the Trade Mission to Cuba as part of his internship at the State
Department of Agriculture.
Ryan Brewster has recently completed his year of service as an an Agricultural Adviser in Iraq's
Diyala Province. To see the amazing work Ryan and his fellow Agricultural Advisers have been doing
in Iraq, please watch this video.
mms://ocbmtcwmp.usda.gov/content/fas/iraq_advisors.wmv
Ryan is now serving as an Agricultural Adviser in Afghanistan. To follow Ryan's work in Afghanistan,
you can visit his blog at:
http://huskerbrewii.blogspot.com/
Scott Nedved, August 2005 Graduate, worked with Professor Ray Supalla on the Water Optimizer while on assistantship in the MBA Agribusiness Program. The Water Optimizer is a decision support tool for producers with limited water.
The Water Optimizer tool was developed in response to several years of drought across the state and to farmers facing water restrictions in the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District and Republican River Basin. The tool allows users to input information into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, including soil type and irrigation system options. Irrigation options include center pivot or gravity irrigation systems, well or canal delivery, and systems powered by electricity, diesel or natural gas. After entering this basic information, producers enter their production costs, irrigation costs, crop prices, crop type and available water. After these parameters have been set, the program calculates what crops will be most profitable with the given costs and available water.
For more information on the water optimizer please visit http://real.unl.edu/h20/
