Expertise:
Segarra is a professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics
and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Agricultural
and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station at Lubbock, and Texas A&M University. Segarra's
research effort is focused on improving farm level decision-making
by incorporating the impacts of emerging technologies, changes
in public policy, and environmental and resource constraints
likely to affect agricultural producers. His extensive research
spans more than a decade of work on issues important to Texas'
agriculture. He has looked at the economics of precision farming
practices in cotton, corn and grain sorghum production. Segarra
investigates the outcomes associated with the contributions
of advanced agricultural production technology adoption to natural
resource conservation and the economics of sustainable crop/livestock
production systems. He also looks into the contributions of
biotechnology to sustainability and economic and risk assessment
of crop production practice, among many other issues dealing
with many economic aspects of agricultural production from farming
system and tillage practices utilization, to water use and irrigation
system adoption, and weed and insect management issues. Segarra
has actively participated in the analysis and evaluation of
widespread trade globalization trends and their potential impacts
in terms of inter-generational welfare implications. His publication
list includes 39 refereed journal articles, one co-edited book,
3 chapters in books, 37 proceedings papers, 43 abstracts of
refereed papers, 64 peer reviewed technical publications and
presentations, and has made 33 other professional presentations.
Professional
and Academic Training:
1986, PhD., Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
1982, M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia
1979, B.A., Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Cirriculum Vitae