| Name | Title | Main Advisor |
| Mark Jirik | The 1995 Through 1998 Pricing Performance of Market Advisory Services for Wheat | Scott H Irwin |
| Jun Lu | Hedging Strategies for Wheat Producers | Ray Leuthold |
| Bryce Holt | Hedge Funds, Commodity Trading Advisors, and Commodity Pool Operators: The Effects of Their Futures Trading Volume on Market Volatility | Scott H Irwin |
| Jing Hong Shu | The Cost of Forward Contracting versus Hedging for Corn and Soybeans in Illinois | Scott H Irwin |
| Jennifer L Kosarek (Gomez) | Factors explaining the diffusion of hybrid maize: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean in support of the life cycle theory of seed industry development | Phil Garcia |
| Tammy Sue Kurtenbach Miller | Information technology adoption and use in agricultural organizations | Sally Thompson |
| Walter Joseph Watts | Comparing the Predictability of Cash and Futures Prices: Using Linear and Nonlinear Approaches: The Arima and Neural Network Models | Ray Leuthold |
| Mikhail Noussinov | Optimal Hedging Strategies for the U.S. Cattle Feeder | Ray Leuthold |
| Keith Boris | The Market Timing Ability of the Channel Trading Rule in Foreign Currency Futures | Ray Leuthold |
| Fabio C Zanini | Hedging Opportunities in the Live Hog Futures and Options Markets Using Forecast Information | Phil Garcia |
| Min-Koung Kim | Distributions of Futures Price Spread and Their Relationships with Market Efficiency | Ray Leuthold |
| Mark Walter Ditsch | Evaluating the Hedging Potential of the Lean Hog Futures Contract | Ray Leuthold |
| Gregory Kerwin Price | An Econometric Analysis of the Barge Freight Market for Export-Bound Grain Movements | Robert J Hauser |
| Keith Allen Bollman | An analysis of the performance of the diammonium phosphate futures contract | Sally Thompson |
| Leah Jones Schneblin | Agricultural Productivity in Eastern and Western Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s | Sally Thompson |
| Jeffrey Reed James | Credit scoring and loan pricing analysis of a vendor finance company | Bruce Sherrick |
| Shane Glenn | Alternative Method for Pricing the Live Hog Futures Contract | Ray Leuthold |
| Lynne Kathleen Dallafior Wildman | Death of a contract: the failure of the HFCS-55 futures contract | Sally Thompson |
| Sanjay Kumar Mandal | Illinois produce growers study: viability of South Water Market in Chicago as an outlet for marketing Illinois produce and analysis of net returns received through alternate marketing channel | Sally Thompson |
| Heleni D Giannoulopoulou | The error correction model of farmland values | Bruce Sherrick |
| Todd Alan Doehring | Economic evaluation of forecast performance: assessment of the distribution of returns | Phil Garcia |
| Valerie Lynn Gamino | Understanding and Forecasting Beef Product Basis Relationships | Phil Garcia |
| Zoila del Rosario Gomez | Marketing of Fresh Mangoes in the US Market | Phil Garcia |
| Darcie Kaye Kiper | Factors affecting farmers’ marketing decisions | Darrel Good |
| Yiqun Wu | Inventory and the Price of Storage Patterns in the Frozen Pork Belly Market | Ray Leuthold |
| Phil Gore | Hedging opportunities and strategies in livestock futures | Ray Leuthold |
| Brian Lee Anderson | Dominant-satellite relationships, spatial integration and co-integration in the live hog markets | Ray Leuthold |
| Luis Manfredini Requejo | A Comparative Analysis of Soybean Price Risk Management in the US and Brazil | Robert J Hauser |
| Santiago Aldana-Sanin | Causality analysis of Colombian flower exports to the United States | Sally Thompson |
| Dennis Walter Gehrt | An analysis of information costs and returns: measured by results of agricultural marketing advisory services | Darrel Good |
| Hopolang Phororo | An analysis of the marketing and production sectors of the Lesotho wool industry | Ray Leuthold |
| Jonathon Matthew Norvell | The study of price risk management using optimal hedging techniques for the University of Illinois Trust Farm Management Division | Ray Leuthold |
| Paul James Bertels | An analysis of the rivalry in the beef packing industry | Ray Leuthold |