Scott Gerlt
Program Leader, U.S. Crop Market and Policy Analysis
(573) 882-1927
GerltS@missouri.edu
Scott Gerlt is a U.S. crop analyst at FAPRI-MU. He focuses on the crop supply side, specifically farm policy and crop insurance. He has a B.S. and M.S. in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. His bachelor’s focused on policy and included a minor in mathematics.
Scott helps maintain the U.S. crop model at FAPRI-MU. He is directly responsible for supply projections. Additionally, Scott helps coordinate the deterministic modelling system and leads much of the stochastic modeling effort. His work helped provide Congressional staff with analytics for the 2014 farm bill.
Additionally, Scott has been involved with education. He has helped develop outreach tools to assist agricultural producers make budgeting and policy decisions. This work has been used by thousands of people. Scott has presented to farm groups around the state and helps train students and outside interests about agricultural markets and modeling.
Most Recent FAPRI Publications
- 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, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Julian C.R. Binfield, Deepayan Debnath, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Kateryna G. Schroeder, Hoa T.K. Hoang. "Baseline Update for U.S. Agricultural Markets." FAPRI-MU Report #03-17.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Julian C.R. Binfield, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Deepayan Debnath, Hoa T.K. Hoang, Kateryna G. Schroeder, Wyatt Thompson, Scott Brown. "2017 U.S. Baseline Briefing Book." FAPRI-MU Report #01-17.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Kateryna G. Schroeder. "Baseline Update for U.S. Farm Income and Government Outlays." FAPRI-MU Report #06-16.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Julian C.R. Binfield, Deepayan Debnath, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Kateryna G. Schroeder, Hoa T.K. Hoang. "Baseline Update for U.S. Agricultural Markets." FAPRI-MU Report #05-16.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Kateryna G. Schroeder, Julian C.R. Binfield, Jarrett Whistance, Deepayan Debnath, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Daniel Madison, Scott Brown, Michael Helmar. "Agricultural Commodity Price Impacts of Federal Reserve Stress Test Scenarios." FAPRI-MU Report #04-16.
- Patrick Westhoff, Malinda Foster, Scott Gerlt. "All or Nothing: 2014 ARC-CO Payment Rates." FAPRI-MU Bulletin #01-16.
- Patrick Westhoff, Scott Gerlt, Jarrett Whistance, Julian C.R. Binfield, Wyatt Thompson, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Deepayan Debnath, Hoa T.K. Hoang, Kateryna G. Schroeder. "2016 U.S. Baseline Briefing Book." FAPRI-MU Report #02-16.
Most Recent Outside Publications
- Wyatt Thompson, Scott Gerlt, J. Elliott Campbell, Lara M. Kueppers, Yaqiong Lu, Mark A. Snyder. "A Cost of Tractability? Estimating Climate Change Impacts Using a Single Crop Market Understates Impacts on Market Conditions and Variability." Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, Online advance article, 2017.
- 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.
- Scott Gerlt, Wyatt Thompson, Doug Miller. "Exploiting the Relationship Between Farm-Level Yields and County-Level Yield for Applied Analysis." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 39(2), 1-18.