Robert Wisner,
University Professor
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
468 Heady Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011
Office Phone Number: 515-294-6310
Office Fax: 515-294-1700
email: wisner@iastate.edu

Dr. Wisner was born and raised on a grain and livestock farm in southeastern Michigan. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University, while working as a Research Assistant in grain price analysis. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Tennessee, Dr. Wisner joined the Economics staff at Iowa State University as an Extension Grain Marketing specialist in 1967.

In addition to his regular responsibilities at Iowa State, he served on short term foreign assignments in Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, and Argentina, as a Senior Economist with the U.S. Cost of Living Council in 1973, and as a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska Agricultural Marketing Center in 1990-1991. He has authored numerous articles on grain marketing, international trade in farm products and the grain outlook. In 1986 he served on a review committee to evaluate USDA's domestic and foreign economic outlook and statistical information programs.

Dr. Wisner, in addition to his other responsibilities, has authored an annual report on world food trade and U.S. agricultural exports published by the World Food Institute and the Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center at Iowa State University. He is also co-editor and contributing editor of a book on marketing for farmers and is Professor of Economics and Extension Grain Marketing Specialist at Iowa State University. He has worked with faculty of four agricultural universities in the Czech and Slovak republics to aid agricultural sectors of those nations in developing a market economy in farm products. Dr. Wisner has received American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Extension awards for Outstanding Crop Price Forecasting, Crop Production Forecasting, and General Economic Forecasts. In 1995, He received ISU Extension's highest award, the Distinguished Service Award.