2016 Cooperative Champion Award, Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives

2015 Frederick B. Mumford Outstanding Faculty Award, College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, MU

2013 GROWMARK Man of the Year

2013 Colloquium Scholar – Indiana University Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Workshop

2013 Visiting Scholar and Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

2012 Cooperative Hall of Fame, Washington DC

2012 Humboldt Scholar, Berlin, Germany

2009 Corona Professor, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

2006 Fellow, McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Missouri

2004 Outstanding Professor, College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, MU

2003 Fellow, IAMA (International Agribusiness Management Association)

2002 CAFNR Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award, MU

2002 “Best Article of the Year”, Journal of Chain Science, 2001. Co-author.

2002 Senior Fellow, Contracts and Organization Research Institute (CORI), University of Missouri

2001 Outstanding Educator Award Department of Agricultural Economics

2000 Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship Award, University of Missouri System

1999 “Best Applied Economics Paper Award”, Mansholt Institute, the Netherlands

1999 Superior Graduate Teaching Award, Gamma Sigma Delta, University of Missouri

1999 Advisor of Outstanding Dissertation, Department of Agricultural Economics, MU

1999 Advisor of Outstanding PhD Dissertation, Nourse Award

1999 Advisor to Sylvia Lane Mentorship Recipient

1998 MU Gold Chalk Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Advising and Teaching, College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, MU

Visiting Scholar at University of Illinois, Santa Clara University, Kansas State University, Michigan State University, University of Sydney, and University of Pretoria.