Patrick Westhoff
Director and Howard Cowden Professor
(573) 882-4647
WesthoffP@missouri.edu
Patrick Westhoff is the director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI-MU) and the Howard Cowden Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the MU Division of Applied Social Sciences.
He is a native of Manchester, Iowa, where he grew up on the family dairy farm. He has a B.A. in political science from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Iowa State University.
Dr. Westhoff served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala from 1979-81, and later worked with FAPRI at Iowa State University. From 1992-1996, he served as an economist with the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
He joined FAPRI-MU in 1996 and has worked on a range of projects in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Most Recent FAPRI Publications
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Youngjune Kim, Julian C.R. Binfield, Seth Meyer. "Baseline Update for U.S. Agricultural Markets." FAPRI-MU #03-20.
- Patrick Westhoff, Seth Meyer, Julian C.R. Binfield, Scott Gerlt. "Early Estimates of the Impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. Agricultural Commodity Markets, Farm Income and Government Outlays." 2020, April FAPRI-MU Report #02-20.
- Patrick Westhoff, Seth Meyer. "November 2019 U.S. Crop Price Update." 2019, November FAPRI-MU Bulletin #04-19.
- Patrick Westhoff, Seth Meyer. "October 2019 U.S. Crop Price Update." 2019, October FAPRI-MU Bulletin #03-19.
- Jarrett Whistance, Seth Meyer, Wyatt Thompson, Patrick Westhoff. "Implications of Renewable Fuel Standard Waivers and Exemptions on Biofuel and Agricultural Markets." 2019, September.
- Scott Gerlt, Patrick Westhoff. "FAPRI-MU Stochastic U.S. Crop Model Documentation." 2019, September.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Julian C.R. Binfield, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Hoa T.K. Hoang, Wyatt Thompson, Seth Meyer. "2019 Baseline Update for International Dairy, Livestock and Biofuel Markets." FAPRI-MU Report #04-19.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Julian C.R. Binfield, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Hoa T.K. Hoang, Wyatt Thompson, Seth Meyer, Scott Brown, Daniel Madison. "2019 August Baseline Update for U.S. Agricultural Markets." 2019, August.
- Patrick Westhoff. "Baseline Update for U.S. Farm Income and the Farm Balance Sheet." FAPRI-MU Bulletin #03-18.
- Deepayan Debnath, Jarrett Whistance, Patrick Westhoff, Julian C.R. Binfield, Wyatt Thompson. "2018 International Biofuels Baseline Briefing Book." FAPRI-MU Report #02-18.
Most Recent Outside Publications
- Tracy Davids, Ferdi Meyer, Patrick Westhoff. "Impact of Trade Controls on Price Transmission between Southern African Maize Markets." Agrekon, 56(3), 223-232.
- Patrick Westhoff, Wyatt Thompson. "Four Indicators that Explain World Grain and Oilseed Market Developments." Agribusiness: An International Journal, 33(2), 274-278. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/agr.21502/full.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Joseph W. Glauber. "Farm Program Elections, Budget Costs and the WTO." Additional Notes: Choices, 30(3): 1-6. 2015. Available at http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/farm-program-elections-budget-costs-and-the-wto.
- Joseph W. Glauber, Patrick Westhoff. "The 2014 Farm Bill and the WTO." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 97(4), 1-11. May 2015. Available at http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/5/1287.
- Patrick Westhoff. "Price Projections and Farm Bill Program Choices: Adding FAPRI-MU Projections to the Mix." Farmdoc Daily, 5(26).
- Seth Meyer, Julian C.R. Binfield, Patrick Westhoff. "Technology Adoption Under US Biofuel Policies: Do Producers, Consumers or Taxpayers Benefit?." (2012, January). European Review of Agricultural Economics, 39(1), 115-136.
- Wyatt Thompson, Seth Meyer, Patrick Westhoff. "What to Conclude about Biofuel Mandates from Evolving Prices for Renewable Identification Numbers." (2011, January). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(2), 481-487.
- Patrick Westhoff. "The Economics of Food: How Feeding and Fueling the Planet Affects Food Prices." Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: FT Press/Pearson Education, 2010. Korean and Chinese translations published in 2011.
- Wyatt Thompson, Seth Meyer, Patrick Westhoff. "The New Markets for Renewable Identification Numbers." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 32(4), 588-603. (doi:10.1093/aepp/ppq021).
- William H. Meyers, Patrick Westhoff, Jacinto Fabiosa, Dermot J. Hayes. "The FAPRI Global Modeling System and Outlook Process." Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development, 6(1), 1-19.