Professor Brewer joined the department of agricultural economics in July of 2018. His research focuses on agricultural finance and production topics that include farm profitability, credit availability, production efficiencies, credit choice of farmers, and farmland values. Dr. Brewer’s extension programming focuses on educating agricultural lenders on credit analysis and farm income trends. He earned his PhD in Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University in 2015 and served as an assistant professor of agribusiness at University of Georgia before coming to Purdue.