Today Anton Bekkerman interviews and helps listeners get to know Dr. Eric Belasco, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University and a regular contributor to the AgEconMT.com outreach website. Eric describes some of his current research in understanding price response in cattle markets to droughts and discusses some of his teaching efforts in the financial engineering program.

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