Kishore Joseph
Assistant Professor
kishore.joseph@siu.edu
618-453-1707
Agribusiness Economics
Dr. Joseph is a graduate of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, M.S. Agribusiness Economics/M.B.A. program and earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2014.
Dr. Joseph’s work experience includes marketing, commodity brokerage, and several years of teaching and applied economic research in academia.
Special Interests:
Agricultural and food marketing; commodity marketing; risk management; price forecasting; agricultural policy; and entrepreneurship.
Classes:
- ABE 204: Introductory Economics of Food, Fiber, and Natural Resources. IAI Course - AG 901 (University Core Curriculum).
- ABE 340: Domestic and International Food Policies.
- ABE 451: Appraisal of Rural Property.
- ABE 472/572: Problems and Policies of the Agricultural Sector.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2014.
- M.S. in Agribusiness Economics/M.B.A. (Elective–Finance), Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.
- M.A.B.M (Elective–Marketing), Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India, 2003·
- B.Sc. Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, India, 2001.
Recent Professional Presentations:
- Western Agricultural Economics Association, Flagstaff, Arizona. June 2026.The 2025 China-U.S. Soybean Trade Disruption and Local Market Responses: Evidence from Illinois Counties.
- Western Agricultural Economics Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico. June 2022. Estimating Value Traits of Bulls in Wisconsin: Applications of Hedonic Regression Analysis.
Recent Publications:
- Keshavarz Afshar, R., Joseph, K., & Sadeghpour, A. (2026). Economic competitiveness of separated dairy manure solids as a phosphorus fertilizer substitute. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.130698
- Joseph, K., Calvert, W. C., Keys, O., Jr., & McCrocklin, S. M. (2026). Identifying courses for targeted review using gap analysis and machine learning. Education Sciences, 16(5), 806. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci1605080
- Joseph, K., Sanders, D. R., Nair, J., & Prill-Adams, A. L. (2024). Buyer valuation of Angus bull attributes in Wisconsin. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 56(4), 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2024.2
- Joseph, K., & Garcia, P. (2018). Intraday market effects in electronic soybean futures market during non-trading and trading hour announcements. Applied Economics, 50(11), 1188–1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1355542
- Joseph, K., Garcia, P., & Peterson, P. E. (2016). Does the boxed beef price inform the live cattle futures price? 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31–August 2, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts (No. 236166). Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.236166
- Joseph, K., Irwin, S. H., & Garcia, P. (2016). Commodity storage under backwardation: Does the Working curve still work? Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 38(1), 152–173. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppv011
- Joseph, K., Garcia, P., & Peterson, P. E. (2013). Price discovery in the U.S. fed cattle market. Proceedings of the NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.285808
Recent Grants:
- Illinois Soybean Center (2026). The 2025 China–U.S. Soybean Tariff and Local Market Responses: Evidence from Illinois Counties.
- Dairy Management Inc. (2026). Agronomic Benefits of Separated Dairy Solids to Replace Synthetic Phosphorus Fertilizer in Corn Cropping Systems. Collaborators: Amir Sadeghpour and Eric Brevik.
- WiSys Ignite Grant (2021-2023). Developing and Nurturing Tomorrow’s Workforce through Project-Based Applied Commodity Research.