Before he retired from Fresno State as a professor emeritus (after the spring of 2026),
his teaching interests included finance, marketing, and management, and he received
the Jordan College's highest teaching award, the Salgo-Noren/NACTA Excellence in Teaching
Award in 2021. His research focused on consumer behavior with respect to food choices,
producer input management decision-making, and producer risk management strategies.
Dr. Lone’s private sector experience focused on market research, where he was tasked
with project development, survey design, data collection and analysis, and report
preparation. He began working at Fresno State in August 2008, after spending 13 years
at California State University, Chico. A native of eastern South Dakota, he spent
the early years of his life surrounded by grain farms before he received his B.S.
in Agricultural Economics (1983) and M.S. in Economics (1985) from South Dakota State
University. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural (Applied) Economics from Washington
State University.
Consumer behavior with respect to food choices, producer input management decision
making and producer risk management strategies.
