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Harvey
L. Kiser Phone: (785)
532-4447 Expertise Additional
Information Dr. Harvey Kiser joined the faculty at Kansas State University in 1979 with the Food and Feed Grains Institute (FFGI) and the International Grains Program (IGP). Kiser makes presentations to grain buyers of other countries about the U.S. grain marketing system, cash grain pricing, futures markets roles, grain grading and transportation at IGP. He taught futures and cash grain pricing and marketing for a six-week period to students in China in 1988; studied the importing of U.S. grain in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan in 1993; co-presented a multi-day seminar on grain marketing in Yugoslavia in 1988, in Turkey in 1998 and in Venezuela in 201; and consulted between 1979 and 1982 on grain post-harvest activities in Niger, Costa Rica and Peru for the Food and Feed Grains Institute. Overseas presentations for the International Grains Program have involved presentations about futures marketing, U.S. grain production and distribution system, grain market supply and demand and international grain contracting and arbitration. Beginning in 1982, he began teaching in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University as well as continuing his responsibilities at the International Grains Program. In the collegiate courses, he taught export marketing of agricultural products for five years and grain marketing and/or commodity futures marketing for 16 years. It was during this time period when he was on a faculty exchange program in China in 1988 where he made presentations to Chinese college students. Since 1998, he has been full-time with the International Grains Program organizing, conducting and presenting in IGP’s grain purchasing, risk management and commodity training short courses for international business executives who are purchases of U.S. corn, soybeans, grain sorghum and wheat. These participants are sponsored by U.S. Wheat Associates, U.S. Grains Council, the American Soybean Association, the Cochran Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and self-sponsorship. In 2004, 185 participants from 33 countries attended 11 IGP short courses and seminars. In addition, he makes presentations in the IGP’s Flour Milling and Feed Manufacturing Short Courses. He has also
conducted research on the feasibility of exporting grain to Pacific
Countries via a western port in Mexico in 1992 and has given major
emphasis on the economics of cleaning wheat in the U.S.
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