Dave joined the Agricultural Economics Department at MSU in 1998 where he focuses on conducting research and teaching Agribusiness Management. Prior to MSU, he was an Assistant Professor and then promoted to an Associate Professor of Agribusiness Management at Florida A&M University (1993 to 1998). Dave teaches marketing and sales courses in Agribusiness Management and Food Industry Management and supervises several doctoral and masters theses.

Professional Interests

• International agribusiness marketing and trade
• International supply and demand analysis for fruits and vegetables
• Business strategies in an emerging country context
• Firm location in emerging countries
• Supply Chain Management
• Agribusiness management
• Strategic analysis of trade from small-scale producers/exporters in Sub-Saharan Africa

Selected Publications

Donnet, M. Laure, D.D. Weatherspoon, J.P. Hoehn, "Price Determinants in Top Quality E-Auctioned Specialty Coffees," Agricultural Economics 38
(2008) 267–276.

Weatherspoon, Dave D. and A. Ross, “Designing the Last Mile of the Supply Chain in Africa: Firm Expansion and Managerial Inferences from a Grocer Model of Location Decisions,” International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2008).

Donnet, L., Weatherspoon, D. D., Hoehn, J. P. (2007). What Adds Value in Specialty Coffee? Managerial Implications from Hedonic Price Analysis of Central and South American E-Auctions. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 10(3), 24-41.

Francis, John, Dave Weatherspoon and James Oehmke.  "European Agricultural Biotechnology Preferences and Policy: Growth and Trade Implications.”  Review of International Economics, 13(4)(Sept. 2005): 709-724.

Boselie, D., Spencer Henson and Dave Weatherspoon. "Supermarket Procurement Practices in Developing Countries: Redefining the Roles of the Public and Private Sectors", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December 2003, Vol. 85, Issue 5 pp 1155‑1161.

Weatherspoon, D.D., Thomas Reardon, “The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa: Implications for Agrifood Systems and the Rural Poor,” Development Policy Review, 2003, 21(3): 333-355.

Weatherspoon, D.D., J. Seale and C.B. Moss, “Extending Theil’s Inequality Index: Addressing Dynamic Convergence in the OECD,” Journal of Agriculture and Applied Economics, Vol. 35, 2003, pp. 183-194.

Gao, Xiaming, C.B. Moss, H. Theil, and D.D. Weatherspoon, “The Development of the GDPs of the G-7 Countries, 1950-1988,” Journal of Agriculture and Applied Economics, Vol. 35, 2003, pp. 151-153.