Joe has over 200 refereed and non-refereed publications, and he has secured over $5 million in extramural research funding. He has engaged with industry opportunity assessments that include exporting, human food, pet food, feed, animal protein for human consumption, commodity & value-added processing, forest products, direct-to-consumer marketing, wholesale marketing, transportation, shortening supply chains, collective action, regulatory processes, environmental improvement, and identity-preservation. He has engaged with the policy process to conduct cost-benefit analysis on current and pending laws, to analyze alternative implementation to current laws, and to assist in the creation of new laws that minimize impact, and maximize value, to all participants in a supply chain. His more recent focus is on risk management and policy solutions leading to strategic opportunities for businesses and individuals to be innovative, resilient, and profitable. Recognizing that no solution is found in isolation, his approach is to use systems design in modeling decision processes. .