Ani Katchova is Professor and Farm Income Enhancement Chair in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. She chairs the Farm Income Enhancement Program and conducts research and outreach on U.S. agricultural economics issues. Her research areas include agricultural finance, agribusiness management and marketing, and applied econometrics. Her research has been published in leading journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural Finance Review, and Agribusiness: An International Journal and her research has been supported by over $2.3 million in grants. She has received two Outstanding Research Awards and one Publication of Lasting Impact Award from the Agricultural Finance and Management section of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. She teaches courses in agribusiness finance and applied econometrics and has previously taught courses in financial management and statistics. Her outreach program includes presentations at the USDA Ag Outlook Forum, Chicago Fed, Kansas City Fed, OSU Farm Science Review, and the OSU Ag Policy and Outlook Conference, outreach articles posted in Choices, farmdoc daily, and on the OSU-AEDE website, and media mentions in National Geographic, Politifact, Washington Post, Columbus Dispatch, and Ohio's Country Journal and Ohio Ag Net. Her PhD students and postdocs have been placed in land-grant universities, government (USDA), and industry.
Dr. Katchova is an Associate Editor for Agricultural Finance Review and an editorial board member for Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy and Agribusiness: An International Journal. Previously, she served as an Executive Board Director for the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, an associate editor for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, an editorial board member for the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, a chair of the Agricultural Finance Regional Committee, and a chair for a review panel for the USDA-ERS Farm Income and Wealth Forecast Program. She completed a sabbatical with USDA conducting research on agricultural baselines projections. She was AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Economic Research Service at USDA and received the Bruce Gardner Outstanding Visiting Economist Award. She was also a Fulbright Specialist Scholar in Austria. She holds the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel. She is the founder and instructor of the Econometrics Academy, offering world-wide education on econometrics. She holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and was a faculty member at University of Illinois and University of Kentucky prior to returning to her alma mater.
Research Program:
Farm Income Enhancement Program
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Select Research Papers:
Chandio, R. and A.L. Katchova. “Similarities in the USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections.” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2024).
Bora, S., and A.L. Katchova. “Multi-step Commodity Forecasts using Deep Learning.” Agricultural Finance Review (2024).
Katchova, A.L. “Do Revisions Improve Agricultural Baselines?” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2024).
Fang, X., and A.L. Katchova. “Evaluating the OECD-FAO and USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections.” Q Open (2023).
Bora, S.S., A.L. Katchova, and T.H. Kuethe. “The Accuracy and Informativeness of Agricultural Baselines.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2023).
Bora, S.S., A.L. Katchova, and T.H. Kuethe. “The Rationality of USDA Forecasts under Multivariate Asymmetric Loss.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2021).
Select outreach reports:
Katchova, Islam. "Agricultural Land Lost to Development in Ohio." Handout, AEDE.
Islam, Katchova, Zulauf. “Agricultural Land Lost to Development in Ohio.” Report, AEDE.
Islam, Katchova, Zulauf. “Agricultural Land Lost to Development in the Midwest.” farmdoc daily.
Katchova, Baral, Ju, Zulauf, “Number of Farms and Land in Farms in the Midwest.” farmdoc daily.
Katchova, Fang, Ju. “Ohio Farm Numbers, Land in Farms, and Agricultural Land Lost to Development.” Report, AEDE.
Select outreach presentations:
Katchova, A. "Agricultural Land Lost to Development in Ohio." Ohio Farm Bureau podcast.
Teaching Program:
Econometrics Academy
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