Rate My Professor David Roberts

David C. Roberts serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics at North Dakota State University, where he also holds a part-time role on the Extension Leadership Team. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University in 2009, following a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2006, and a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2003. Roberts joined North Dakota State University as an Assistant Professor in August 2009 and advanced to Associate Professor in 2016. His academic career emphasizes quantitative analysis in agricultural systems, with contributions to graduate coordination and curriculum development in prior roles.

Roberts specializes in natural resource and environmental economics, econometrics, production agriculture, bioeconomics, and environmental economics. His research addresses critical issues such as precision agriculture technology adoption, landowner preferences for wetland conservation programs, water pollution dynamics in relation to economic growth, crop efficiency frontiers, and reservoir management impacts on recreation. Notable publications include 'The adoption and usage of precision agriculture technologies in North Dakota' (Technology in Society, 2022, with E.D. Hanson and M.K. Cossette), 'Landowner valuation of a working wetlands program in the Prairie Pothole Region' (Agricultural Economics, 2019, with C.J. Wachenheim et al.), 'North Dakota corn efficiency frontier: Stochastic frontier analysis' (Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management, 2024, with B. Badarch and D. Ripplinger), 'The relation between water pollution and economic growth using the environmental Kuznets curve: a case study in South Korea' (Water International, 2015, with J. Choi et al.), 'Forecast of CO2 Emissions From the U.S. Transportation Sector: Estimation From a Double Exponential Smoothing Model' (Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 2014, with J. Choi and E. Lee), and 'Preferences for environmental quality under uncertainty' (Ecological Economics, 2008, with T.A. Boyer and J.L. Lusk). Earlier works cover nitrogen recommendations for winter wheat, riparian buffer costs in the Harpeth River Watershed (Review of Agricultural Economics, 2009), and spatial assessments of water quality trading markets (Review of Agricultural Economics, 2008). With 482 citations, his scholarship informs agricultural policy, environmental management, and production practices. Roberts contributes to university service through the College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Awards and Recognition Committee.