Dr. Seth Meyer is a Research Professor and the Associate Director for the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri. FAPRI is well known for is agricultural policy and market analysis being called on by Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its insight into commodity production, price and trade impacts from various agricultural policies including trade and market disruptions. Dr. Meyer was also most recently the head of the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB), the agency at USDA charged bringing together USDA resources in the assessment of crops around the world. The WAOB also publishes those finding in the ‘WASDE’ report which is closely watched by agricultural markets here and abroad. Seth was also an economist with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and has served as a visiting scholar at several research institutions around the world.