John E. Waldrop, Jr.
retired professor

John E. Waldrop Jr. of Starkville, a retired professor of agricultural economics at Mississippi State, died July 20, 1996. He was 64.

Waldrop earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Mississippi State and a doctorate in agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University in 1964.

He was an assistant professor at Louisiana State University until 1967, when he joined the faculty at Mississippi State. He retired from the university in 1995 after nearly 30 years of service.

Waldrop was known for his key research and devoted work with the state's catfish industry. He also specialized in agricultural resource development and production economics.

In 1990, his expertise in the expanding catfish industry was featured in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Yearbook of Agriculture.

He was the author or co-author of more than 70 scientific publications and technical bulletins.

Through his association both with the university and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, he presented papers and conducted research in Africa, Israel, Italy, and the Mississippi Delta.