Agricultural Sciences

New Faculty Appointed To Dairy And Animal Sciences Department

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has announced the recent appointment of Peter R. Tozer to the position of assistant professor of animal science in the Department of Dairy and Animal Science.

Tozer, a native of New South Wales in Australia, comes to the department with a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Washington. He also earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from the University of New England in Australia in 1992. Before joining Penn State, he served as Unit Coordinator for Farm and Resource Management A courses in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of New England. He also served as Senior Project Officer for The Centre for Rural Development at that university.

Tozer will teach classes relating to all animal production systems. His research focuses on managing Pennsylvania dairy and other animal production systems to improve their profitability and sustainability.

He is a member of the American Dairy Science Association, the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and the Canadian Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Society. He recently co-authored "Strategic Alliances and Marketing Cooperatives: A Lamb Industry Case Study" in the Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, and "Is Equity Finance in Agriculture Worth the Money?" in The Centre for Rural Development Discussion Paper.

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Contacts: Gary Abdullah gxa2@psu.edu 814-863-2708 814-865-1068 fax

Last Updated March 19, 2009