Hans Geier

Mr. Geier is currently an economist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). He has been involved in cooperative education since 1996, risk management outreach and education for fisheries and agricultural producers since 2002, as well as an Alaska pioneer in oilseed production as a farmer in Delta Junction. With these multiple roles, he is on the forefront of production, policy, and feasibility of fisheries and agricultural production and risk management in Alaska.

Hans is a 17 year Alaska resident. After spending his formative years growing up on family farms in Minnesota, he received his first degree in Agricultural Business Management (specialty in Cooperative Management) from Southwest State University in Marshall Minnesota in 1982. He attended graduate school at Washington State University and worked for the WSU Extension Service until he completed his journey to Alaska in January 1992.

After receiving a MS in Natural Resource Management at UAF in 1994, he entered employment at UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, then with an additional appointment with UAF Cooperative Extension Service specializing in Risk management outreach to Alaska producers in 2004, he achieved faculty rank in 2005.

With this education and background Mr. Geier brings a detailed knowledge of policy and commodity markets to Alaska’s checkered agricultural history.