William Lazarus

Professor and Extension Economist

217B Ruttan Hall

Department of Applied Economics

1994 Buford Avenue

St. Paul, MN 55108

wlazarus@umn.edu

+1 612 625 8150

Subject Areas

Agricultural Policy

Farm Management

Production Economics

Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana (Agricultural Economics), 1981
M.S, Pennsylvania State University (Agricultural Economics), 1978
B.S., Pennsylvania State University (Agronomy), 1973

Areas of Interest

Agricultural Policy, Farm Management, Production Economics

Teaching

ApEc 4501 - Financial Modeling

Research

Research interests and extension programs include crop and livestock production economics, farm machinery economics, biomass energy economics, agricultural impacts on water and air quality, and economic impact analysis.

Select Publications

Lazarus, W.F., W.L. Headlee, and R.S. Zalesny Jr. "Impacts of Supplyshed-Level Differences in Productivity and Land Costs on the Economics of Hybrid Poplar Production in Minnesota, USA," Bioenergy Research 8(2015):231-248.

Lazarus, W.F., D. Mulla, and D. Wall. "A spreadsheet planning tool for assisting a state agency with cost-effective watershed scale surface water nitrogen planning," Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 69(2014), 2:45A-50A.

Alonso, C., P. Davies, D. Polson, S. Dee, and W. Lazarus. 2013. "Financial implications of installing air filtration systems to prevent PRRSV infection in large sow herds," Preventive Veterinary Medicine 111(3-4).

Lazarus, W.F. Machinery Cost Estimates. University of Minnesota Extension Service, June 2014, 8 pages. Online at: http://wlazarus.cfans.umn.edu/william-f-lazarus-farm-machinery-management

Minnesota Land Economics <Internet resource>
Lazarus, William F.; Taff, Steven J.; Mikesell, Chris L. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, 2000-. Available at: http://www.landeconomics.umn.edu/