David Leatham

David Leatham serves as Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs in Texas A&M's Agricultural Economics Department. His research program focuses on financial decision-making for agricultural businesses and credit institutions, with expertise in risk/return frameworks, interest rate derivatives, and credit assessment models.

Primary research areas include:

• Agricultural lender risk management
• Financial derivatives design
• Land market valuation
• Structural changes in agricultural credit

Recent publications apply machine learning to land market analysis and advanced statistical methods to crop yield distributions for insurance applications. Funded by Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Farm Credit Council, and National Crop Insurance Services.