Ward Nefstead

Associate Professor and Extension Economist
249B Ruttan Hall
Department of Applied Economics
1994 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
nefst002@umn.edu
+1 612 625 7228

Subject Areas

Agribusiness
Commodity Marketing
Farm Management

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995
M.S., Ag Economics, University of Minnesota, 1971
B.S., Ag Economics, University of Minnesota, 1968

Areas of Interest

Agribusiness, Commodity Marketing, Farm Management

Ward Nefstead

Teaching

ApEc 1251, Principles of Accounting
ApEc 3451, Food and Agricultural Sales
ApEc 3551, Entrepreneurship Fundamentals for Value-Added Rural Businesses
ApEc 3821, Retail Center Management
AIM 4011, Student Project/Field Investigation

Research

My current research is on grain market price distributions and price maps for Minnesota regions together with development of statistical decision aids for farmers and Value-Added Ag Entrepreneurship activity. Secondary research is on performance of higher education institutions and instructional techniques.

Extension and Outreach

Minnesota Chapter, American Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers, Executive Secretary & Education Coordinator
Advisory Board, Minnesota Farm Market Association
Advisor, Student Chapter National AgriMarketiing Association

Awards

Outstanding Club Advisor, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, 2008
Golden Plow Award, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, 2006
Nominated for NACTA Regional Teaching Award, 1990
Outstanding Young Man in America, 1977
Daryl E. Snyder Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to FarmHouse Fraternity
Finalist, Horace Mann Undergraduate Teaching Award

Select Publications

Nefstead, Ward E.  An Application of a Flipped Classroom: Case of ApEc 3551. Poster presented at AAEA Annual  Meeting, Washington, DC, 2013.

Nefstead, Ward E.; Gillard, Steve. An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Academic Departments within Colleges of Agricuture, Food & Environmental Science. Paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, 2011.

Nefstead, Ward E.; Gillard, Steve. Creating an Excel-Based Scorecard to Measure the Performance of Colleges of Agriculture. Selected Paper presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, July 23-26, 2006.

Nefstead, Ward E.  An Application of Risk Analysis: Localized Corn and Soybean Price Distributions.  Selected Paper presented at AAEA Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, August, 2000.

King, Robert P; Lev, Larry S.; Nefstead Ward E.  "A Position Report for Farm-Level Marketing," Review of Agricultural Economics, V. 17, No. 2, May 1995, pp. 202-212.

Nefstead, Ward E. "Using the Kiersey-Bates Learning Style Indicator To Evaluate Teaching and Learning Styles," Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science (Spring, 1992)