Brent Hueth is Chief of the Structure, Technology, and Productivity Branch at the Economic Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He directs research on measurement and analysis of agricultural productivity; innovation systems for biological, physical, and information technologies used in agriculture; application of new and existing production practices, management systems, and technologies on farms; and the changing organization and structure of agricultural production. After receiving his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Maryland-College Park, Brent spent two years at the University of California-Berkeley as a research economist, and he was then a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University for eight years. Prior to his current position at USDA, Brent was a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, faculty director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and founding executive director of the University of Wisconsin Federal Statistical Research Data Center.