McKenzie Named Co-Editor of Journal

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Andrew McKenzie

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Andrew McKenzie, a professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, has been named co-editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

The Journal is the official publication of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. McKenzie will serve as co-editor for a three-year term beginning in July 2013.

McKenzie, who joined the University of Arkansas faculty as an assistant professor in 1998, was selected based on his expertise in the areas of commodity marketing, international trade, and futures and options markets.

He is a native of South Shields, England, and earned his doctorate in economics from North Carolina State University in 1999.

McKenzie is widely acknowledged as one of the nation’s leading experts in grain marketing, and hedging and basis trading. He has published numerous articles in those areas. His research focus is on futures and options markets, price risk management, time series analysis and international rice trade and policy. McKenzie works closely with many companies in the grain industry and is a certified grain merchant. Last year, he led a partnership effort with White Commercial Corp. to convert his basis trading course to an online course and make it available to industry professionals as well as traditional academic students. McKenzie co-teaches the class with Sherry Lorton, director of education for White Commercial, and an adjunct instructor in the agricultural economics and agribusiness department. To date, more than 250 industry professionals and 60 traditional students have taken the online course.

McKenzie earned his bachelor’s degree in administrative studies from the University of Dundee in 1988 and his master of science degree from Stirling University in 1990.

He is a member of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, and taught at North Carolina State University from 1993 to 1998.