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Dr. Joseph Atwood – Principal Investigator
Lead Data Analyst in the Watts and Associates, Inc. weather risk management development efforts;
Senior Agricultural Economist, Watts and Associates;
Professor, Montana State University – Department of Agricultural Economics;
10 Years of experience in providing education and working with individual producers in developing agricultural financing plans, creating budgets, and initiating risk management strategies with the Nebraska Farm Management Association;
Extensive academic publications and research into agricultural finance and lending principles;
Teaches Undergraduate and graduate level agricultural finance courses at Montana State University;
Extensive interest and research in agricultural production and policy analysis;
Extensive analytical modeling of agricultural programs, including simulations, linear programming, Markovian Transition Probabilities;
Principal Investigator for numerous W&A contracts; and
Primary econometrician for spatial analysis for W&A.