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Matthew Elliott

Matthew Elliott

Title

Associate Professor/Extension Specialist-Agribusiness

Office Building

Harding Hall

Office

204

Mailing Address

Harding Hall 204
Economics ABS-Box 2220
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Biography

Dr. Elliott is an associate professor in the Ness School of Management and Economics at South Dakota State University. Matthew has taught an Advanced Agribusiness course for graduate and undergraduate students, conducts research for the agricultural experiment station and serves as the state extension agent specialist on agribusiness. Matthew has provided consulting and research on agriculture land assessment policy, and commercial platforms to analyze precision agriculture data. He has published research on farm and agribusiness management, cooperatives, contracts, agriculture land assessment policy and data analytics in the Journal of Commodity Markets, Choices, Agricultural Resources and Economics Review and Applied Economics Teaching Resources. Matthew is a co-editor of a forthcoming Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals for Edward Elgar Publishing.

Education

  • B.S. in agribusiness | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | 2001
  • M.S. in agricultural and applied economics | University of Missouri, Columbia
  • Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics | University of Missouri, Columbia

Academic Interests

  • Agriculture organizations, institutions and economic performance.
  • Contracts between farms and farmer cooperatives including marketing, governance, equity and production contracts to mitigate risk and enhance return.
  • Changes to agriculture institutions (public policy and organizations).
  • PMy research focuses on agriculture organizations, institutions and economic performance. Research areas include contracts between farms and farmer cooperatives including marketing, governance, equity and production contracts to mitigate risk and enhance return. The research also studies changes to agriculture institutions (public policy and organizations). My research approach emphasizes predictive data analytics, big data and precision agriculture. Predictive data analytics, big data and precision agriculture.

Academic Responsibilities

  • AGEC 371 (2019)

Committees and Professional Memberships

  • NCERA-210 Multi-State Research Committee on Cooperatives (chair 2019-2021)
  • AEM Section of AAEA (executive committee 2016-2020)

Extension Responsibilities

State agribusiness specialist

Awards and Honors

Best Journal Article - Agricultural Resources and Economic Review (2017)

Grants

  1. 2021: Elliott, M. Agricultural Land Productivity Assessment for Taxation Purposes Project, Principal Investigator, South Dakota Department of Revenue.
  2. 2020-2025: Agriculture Institutions and Economic Performance, Principal Investigator, USDA-NIFA Hatch Project.

Areas of Research

  • Agribusinesses
  • Cooperatives
  • Contracts
  • Risk analysis
  • Data analytics
  • Precision agriculture

Publications

  1. Elliott, M. and Boland, M. (Ed.). (2022). The Edward Elgar Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals. Chapters, Cases, Readings, Supplements.
  2. Elliott, M. and Olson, F. (2022). The New Institutional Economic Theory of Cooperatives: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead. In Michael Boland and Matthew Elliott (Eds.), The Edward Elgar Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals.
  3. Elliott, M. and Boland, M. (2022). Introduction to the Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals. In Michael Boland and Matthew Elliott (Eds.), The Edward Elgar Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals.
  4. Elliott, M. and Olson, F. (2022). Managing Cooperative Risk and Uncertainty in the 21st Century. The Edward Elgar Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals.
  5. Elliott, M., Olson, F. and Grashuis, J. (2022). Towards a New Framework on Cooperative Strategy. The Edward Elgar Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals.
  6. Elliott, M. and Boland, M. (2022). The Role of Cooperatives and Mutuals in the 21st Century. The Edward Elgar Handbook on Cooperatives and Mutuals.
  7. Elliott, M. S. and Elliott, L. M. (2020). Developing R Shiny Web Applications for Extension Education. Applied Economics and Teaching Resources.
  8. Elliott, M. and Elliott, L. (2020). Using Data Analytics and Decision-Making Tools for Agribusiness and Extension Education. Applied Economics and Teaching Resources.
  9. Elliott, M., Elliott, L., Wang, T. and Malo, D. (2020). A Change in Highest and Best Use Policy in South Dakota Has a Sizable Impact on Agricultural Land Assessments. Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues.
  10. Elliott, M. S., Elliott, L. M. and Wang, T. (2020). Meandering water in the Prairie Pothole Region of South Dakota.   Journal of ASFMRA.
  11. Elliott, M. (2019). New generation grain contracts in corn and soybean commodity markets. Journal of Commodity Markets.
  12. Elliott, M. S., Elliott, L. M. and Van der Sluis, E. E. (2018). A Predictive Analytics Understanding of Cooperative Membership Heterogeneity and Sustainability.
  13. Elliott, L. M., Saleh, S. and Elliott, M. (2018). Can Camelina and Carinata be Profitable in South Dakota? Journal of ASFMRA.
  14. Grashuis, J. and Elliott, M. S. (2018). The role of capital capacity, spatial competition and strategic orientation to mergers and acquisitions by U.S. farmer cooperatives. Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management.
  15. Elliott, M. S. and James, H. (2017). Nature of the Farm: Revisited. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. Teaching and Learning Scholarship

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