Renee Wiatt

Agricultural Economics

Family Business Managment Specialist

Phone

765.496.9051

Fax

765.494.9176

Office

KRAN Room 615

Field Extension Educators

Extension Educator

Email

reneewiatt@purdue.edu

Renee Wiatt serves as the Family Business Management Specialist for the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, namely for the Purdue Initiative for Family Firms (PIFF). She works on extension and applied research in family business management and collaborates with partners such as centers focused on agriculture and families, Extension teams focused on agriculture and farm management, and researchers to develop funded programming focused on family business management. She is responsible for coordinating with producer associations to determine family business needs as well as conducting research and fundraising focused on family businesses.

Renee was previously a research scientist at Iowa State University in the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology (CSSM) as well as an ag and natural resources educator for Purdue Extension in Montgomery County. She holds a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Agricultural Economics, both completed at Purdue University.

Selected Publications

Marshall, M. I., & Wiatt, R. (2020). Building A Social Media Calendar. Manuscript in preparation.

Wiatt, R. (2019). Why Advisors Need to Meet EVERYONE in the Family. Summer Edition, 3.

Wiatt, R. (2020). Why Advisors Need to Meet EVERYONE in the Family. January/February 2020 , 16-17. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/inlanews/docs/janfeb2020_issuu

Wiatt, R., & Marshall, M. I. (n.d.). Small Business Values Survey [data file and codebook] Manuscript in preparation.

Wiatt, R., & Marshall, M. I. (2019). Small Business Recovery Following a Natural Disaster? (June 2019), 14-15. Retrieved from https://ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Documents/PAER%20June%202019_FINAL.pdf

Wiatt, R., & Marshall, M. I. (2019). Success Realized from Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The Case of Midwestern Farm Family Businesses. Selected paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Wiatt, R. (2019). Creating a Culture of Collaboration in Family Businesses. ( January/February 2019), 13-14.

Marshall, M. I. (2019). PIFF Quarterly Newsletter, Winter Edition 2019.

Wiatt, R., Marshall, M. I., & Musselman, R. (2019). Management and Ownership Transfer: The Case of Mid- Western Family Businesses. 52-68.

Wiatt, R., & Marshall, M. I. (2017). FB-BRAG: A Tool for Assessing Family Business Functioning. JOURNAL OF EXTENSION, 55(5).