Farming Expert Witnesses

This expert has educational and professional experience in agricultural real estate and is considered a trusted professional in land economics and is eminently qualified to provide opinions concerning land economics and divisions of property. His educational and work experience uniquely qualifies him to provide such testimony for court cases. After receiving a B.S. and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Mississippi State University, he served 31 years with the MS Cooperative Extension. For 25 of those years, he was the County Agricultural Agent in Yazoo County, the state’s largest county which is a very diverse and significant producer of agricultural commodities. During his career he won numerous state and national awards for his efforts. He was recognized as a Certified General Appraiser by the state of Mississippi in 2005. Following his tenure with Kennard and Associates Appraisals, he began his own appraisal service business in 2008. He attained accreditation as an Accredited Rural Appraiser by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers in 2008. His services include consultation on land purchases and investments, inheritance division, sale of property, determining basis following death, valuing recreational tracts, crop land, custom farming, crop rents, conservation easements, property divisions and many other real estate needs. He has assisted in cases and served in court testimony in the division of agricultural properties up to 4,700 acres. Approximately half of his work involves assisting families with the division of property. He has written several articles for Delta Farm Press concerning land economics, death tax and problems with undivided interests. In addition to his appraisal and consulting business, he owns several hundred acres of crop and timber land.

This highly qualified precision agriculture expert earned his BS in Agronomy and MS in Agricultural Economics at the University of Arkansas and PhD in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. He has received several awards through his career and is a frequently invited guest speaker at major precision agriculture conferences. This expert is a member of several professional organizations including the International Society of Precision Agriculture and American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor specializing in cropping system economics, precision agriculture, and spatial econometics at a top ranking university as well at a Principal at a farm consultancy.

This international technology expert has hands-on experience in all aspects of agriculture, including crop production, equipment design, R&D, teaching, manufacturing, and marketing. He has four advanced degrees in business/engineering, including a Ph.D. in the Automation of Technological Processes from the National University of Life and Environmental Science of Ukraine. He has authored 70+ publications and holds 11 U.S. patents, as well as others from Canada, the EU, and Russia. The expert currently works in a product development and marketing capacity for an agricultural systems consultancy.

This highly qualified expert is a professor of agricultural safety and health in the agricultural engineering department at a top ranking university. His credentials and experience in occupational safety and health makes him particularly qualified to review this case. He is a Certified Safety Professional and a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, Agricultural Division of National Safety, and International Society of Safety and Health. He has earned multiple awards throughout his career including the Packer Engineering Safety Award and Agricultural Safety Professional of the year. This expert earned his BS in Agriculture and MS in Occupational Safety and Health at Illinois State University and PhD in Agricultural Education at the University of Minnesota.

This well-credentialed expert is Professor Emeritusof Soil and Crop Sciences at a public research university in Colorado, where he has held the title of Professor for over 20 years. He received his BS in Agronomy from Brigham Young University, his MS in Agronomy from Oklahoma State University, and his PhD in Crop Science from Oregon State University. The expert has presented at over 100 workshops/lectures and has authored nearly 50 refereed articles along with nearly 150 technical reports. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and is also a member of the Crop Science Society of America and the Council for Agricultural Science and technology. His experience in farming dates back to his early life when he worked on a family farm in Idaho; he has been in academia focusing on agronomy and crop science for 38+ years.