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Dixie Watts Reaves

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Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Phone: (540) 231-6153
E-mail: dixie@vt.edu
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Dr. Reaves is chair of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics undergraduate program and teaches a number of classes at the undergraduate level, including Economics of the Food and Fiber System (introductory microeconomic theory); Farm, Cooperative, and Agribusiness Management; Food and Agribusiness Marketing Management; Cooperatives and Their Impact on the Human Condition; Internships in Agricultural Economics; Advanced Agribusiness Marketing; and the First Year Seminar in Agricultural Economics. She also serves as academic advisor to about sixty undergraduate students.

Drawing from her array of teaching experiences, her work with the undergraduate agri-marketing team, and her Extension work in agribusiness marketing with producer groups, cooperatives, and agribusiness firms across the state, she created the marketing course for the online master’s program. She is the product of a Southside Virginia tobacco farm, and she has been actively involved in educational programs to assist farmers and quota holders in adjusting to the free market system following the October 2004 Tobacco Buyout.

She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Virginia Tech and returned to the department in 1993 after receiving her Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University.

Courses Taught by This Instructor

  • AAEC 5034: Agribusiness Marketing Policy and Business Strategies

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