Rate My Professor Curt Lacy

As an agricultural economist, Lacy specializes in strategies to enhance production efficiency, reduce inputs, and promote environmental conservation, applying his expertise to beef cattle production, forages, ornamentals, vegetable crops, and row crops. His scholarly contributions include highly influential publications such as “The use of fly larvae for organic waste treatment” (Waste Management, 2015, co-authored with H. Čičková, G.L. Newton, and M. Kozánek), “Role of credence and health information in determining US consumers’ willingness-to-pay for grass-finished beef” (Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009, co-authored with W.J. Umberger and P.C. Boxall), “Cull cow management and its implications for cow-calf profitability” (Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2002, co-authored with R.D. Little, A.R. Williams, and C.S. Forrest), “Alfalfa management in Georgia” (University of Georgia, 2009), and “Blending polymer-coated nitrogen fertilizer improved bermudagrass forage production” (Crop Science, 2015). Lacy is a graduate of the Food Systems Leadership Institute and the LEAD-21 program, national leadership initiatives in food and agricultural systems.