Steve Swigert Ag Consultant NF4 Team jsswigert@noble.org

• Master of Business Administration, 1993, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Okla.
• Master of Science in agricultural technology, 1990, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Mo.
• Bachelor of Science in agricultural business, 1988, Central Missouri State University

Swigert is an agricultural economist with the NF-4 consulting team. He has been with the Foundation since 1990. His primary emphasis is working with producers on financial record keeping and analysis, marketing, information systems and strategic planning.

Before coming to the Noble Foundation, Swigert managed a purebred beef cattle operation and a 6,000-head heifer operation for the Braum's Corporation. He also worked as a financial analyst for the Farm Credit System in Missouri.

Swigert is a member of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Oklahoma Banker Association and Missouri Academy of Science. Locally, he is trustee of the Oklahoma Camps for the United Methodist Church.

He was raised on a family farm in Missouri, where they had row crops, beef cattle and hogs.

Online publications include:
Higher Costs and Lower Sales in 2008
How Does Value of Gain Affect What You Can Pay for a Bull?
What does the "Value of gain" mean?
Cattle Producers Must Plan for Higher Corn Prices
USDA Programs Offer Source, Age Verification of Cattle
How Do You Compare With Your Competitors?
Cattle Prices 2006: What to Expect
Consider These Factors When Deciding on a Feedyard
Use Technology Now to Benefit Your Operation
Shrink Can be Managed
How Do You Make Decisions?
What to Do About Replacement Cows
What Can You do to Reduce Production Costs?
Who is Going to Get the Bulk of Your Estate?
Profit or Loss
Drought, Economy Have Affected Cattle Cycle
Determining Cost of Production is Useful to Cattle Producers
Ranching Information on the Web
Ranching Information on the Web
Retained Ownership - Is It for You?
Unit Cost of Production
Cattle Prices for 2001
Managing Cow Replacement during the Cattle Cycle
Technology and the New Millennium
Your Farm Economy
Winter Feed Costs
Which Enterprise is Making You the Most Money?
Have You Made Your Marketing Plans for the Fall?
Management Information Systems
Retaining Ownership – Is It For You?