2012 Honorable Mention in Poster Competition, “Benefits to Econometric Forecasting of Irrigation Water Demand: A Case Study on Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basins in Alabama” (coauthored with Babatunde Obembe), Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL, February 4-7, 2012.
2011 Professional Paper Award, “Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Irrigation Water Shortage” (coauthored with Babatunde Obembe), Southern Rural Sociological Association (SRSA) Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, TX, February 6-8, 2011.
2010 Honorable Mention in Poster Competition, “GPS Guidance Systems Adoption: Outreach Implications in Cotton Production” (coauthored with Buddhi R. Gyawali and James O. Bukenya), Rural Sociological Society (RSS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 12-15, 2010.
2009 Second Place in Poster Competition, “Forecasting Water Demand and Value for Corn and Soybean Production” (coauthored with Buddhi R. Gyawali and James O. Bukenya), SAEA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 31 – February 3, 2009.
2007 Finalist in Poster Competition, “Forecasting Water Demand and Value for Crop Production” (coauthored with Steven W. Martin), American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) at AAEA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 29 – August 1, 2007.
2006 Third Place in Poster Competition, “Certainty Equivalent Farm Returns from Bt and Non-Bt Cotton” (coauthored with Steven W. Martin), SAEA Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, February 5-8, 2006.
2004 Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia (UGA), April 2004.
2019 Appointed for a 3-year term (July 2020 – July 2023) to the Kentucky Governor’s Economic Opportunity Commission.
2019 Included in Marquis 2020 Who’s Who in America.
2012 Service Award by the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences at Alabama A&M University.
2007 Gamma Sigma Delta - The Honor Society of Agriculture - Inducted by Mississippi State University.
2004 Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges (while being a doctoral student at the University of Georgia).
2002 Tau Chapter of Phi Beta Delta - Honor Society for International Scholars - Installed by the University of Georgia.
1997 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges (while being a master's student at the University of Nevada – Reno).
American Economic Association (AEA)
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA)
Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA)
National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA)
Southwestern Economics Association (SWEA)
Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2008, 2012-20 (14 manuscripts).
Peer Reviewer for the Southwestern Journal of Economics, Summer 2017, Summer 2019, Fall 2020 (3 manuscripts).
Panel Reviewer for USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service – Local Food Promotion Program, Summer 2018 and Summer 2020.