August 2002

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Congratulations and Names in the News from the AAEA & WAEA 2002 Annual Meeting:

Distinguished Extension Program - Group: Sarahelen Thompson, Paul N. Ellinger, Darrel L. Good, Robert J. Hauser, Dale H. Lattz, Joao Martines-Filho, Gary D. Schnitkey, Bruce J. Sherrick, Don Uchtamann and Scott H. Irwin (team leader) , members of the Farm.Doc Team, University of Illinois.

Quality of Communication: John M. Connor, Purdue University, Global Price Fixing: Our Customers are the Enemy, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

AAEA 2002 Fellow: Michael Boehlje

President of Extension for 2002: George Patrick

Organizer: Allan Gray: The Farm Bill: Where Have the Economists Been?

Introduction - Presidential Address: Sarahelen Thompson

Moderators:

Otto Doering - The Agricultural Economics of Terrorism: Markets in Peril
Otto Doering - the Farm Bill: Where Have the Economists Been?
Steve Slinsky (Kevin McNamara) - Economic Growth and Change in Rural Areas

Presented:

Jay Akridge - Teaching Strategies Utilized by the 2001 AAEA Award Recipients

Jay Akridge - Students Who Are Professionals and Electronic Media

Diakalia Sanogo and William A. Masters - "The Value of Quality Certification for Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali."

Jeffrey J. Reimer and John M. Connor, "Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry"

Tomas Nilsson and Joan Fulton, "The Capstone Experience Course in Agricultural Curriculum"

Harounan Kazianga and William A. Masters, "Property Rights, Production Technology and Deforestation: Cocoa in West Africa"

Lining Li and James G. Pritchett, "Price Risk Management in White Corn Production"

Matthew Mayberry, Christine Wilson, Michael Boehlje, and Frank Dooley, "Assessing the Effect of ECR in Financial and Operating Performance"

Allan Gray, "The Economists' Role in Public Policy Education: Analyst or Advocate?

Joshua Detre, Allan Gray and Christine Wilson, "Investment in Publicly Traded Firms as a Vertical Integration and Risk Diversification Strategy'

Anetra Harbor-Locure and Marshall A. Martin, "Managing the Corn Rootworm Variant": Empirical Results from an Indiana Farmer Survey"

Daniel Settlage and Paul V. Preckel, "Robustness of Non-Parametric Measurement of Efficiency and Risk Aversion"

Gregory Price, ERS/USDA and John M. Connor, "The Determinants of Coupon Discounts for Breakfast Cereals"

Alexandria Huerta and Marshall A. Martin, "Soybean Production Costs: A Competitive Analysis of the United States, Brazil and Argentina"

Douglas Miller and Paul Preckel, "Entropy-based Methods of Modeling Stochastic Production Efficiency"

Jim Eales and Jim Binkley, "Determinants of US Children's and Teenagers' Body Mass Index"

Jim Eales and Jim Binkley, "The Effect of Food Stamps on Grocery Product Spending"

Christine Wilson and Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University, "The Effects of Food Safety Issues on Diversifiable and Nondiversifiable Agribusiness Risk"

Panelist: Michael Boehlje - Consulting in Agribusiness

Congratulations and Names in the News:

Harounan Kazianga has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University. He will investigate the causes and effects of differences in household size in West Africa. He will join a research program led by Prof. T. Paul Schultz, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Shana Love has been appointed as the national graduate student parliamentarian for Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS).

The Department is very pleased to announce that two recent PhD graduates were accepted in the World Bank Young Professionals Program this year. The Young Professionals Program is very competitive. Congratulations to Rabih Karaky (major advisor: Channing Arndt) and Jean-Philippe Tre (major advisor: Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer).

Thought You Would Like To Know

For information on the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report see our web site or contact harrisog@purdue.edu.

Two Ethiopian agronomists visited Purdue for research conducted here on dryland agriculture. Kidane Georgis is Director of Dryland Agriculture for EARO (the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization). Amare Belay is with the Tigray Agricultural Research Institute. They are working with John Sanders on a report on dryland technologies in the Horn countries of Africa and with Nega Wubeneh on this thesis on the diffusion of Striga-resistant sorghums and associated technologies in Tigray. Drs. Georgs and Belay have visited the Purdue farm, consulted with professors on campus, and will visit with professors at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Changkuen Kwock will be a visiting scholar in the Department for one year. He will be working with Dr. Tim Baker. Mr. Kwock is a Purdue alumnus.

Steve Lovejoy's multi-media presentation and discussion of "Integration of Science and Values in Watershed Management" in Traverse City, Michigan, was part of a special joint conference, July 23-26, on Economic Considerations in Water Management. "Science is helpful," he said, "but scientists need to assist citizens and organizations to make better decisions about watersheds. These include land use, sedimentation reduction, aquatic and riparian habitats, filterstrips, and costs to landowners and the public." US and Canadian concerns were represented by four organizations: Universities Council on Water Resources, Environment and Water Institute of ASCE, US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources, and National Ground Water Association. Co-sponsors of the joint conference were the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary and Water Commission.

Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

September 10-13, 2002 Marketing Planning for Field Marketers

An annual program that recognizes the role of the field salesperson and sales manager in tailoring company marketing plans to unique needs of local and regional markets. Participants put field marketing concepts to work in their organizations.

October 14-18, 2002 Strategic Agri Marketing

Agri Marketing focuses on integrated marketing strategy. It is a practical, hands-on look at market segmentation, product and pricing strategies, distribution, people, and marketing communications decisions necessary for creating a new marketing approach in the agricultural marketplace. For more details, visit the Center Web site or contact Scott Downey, associate director at (765) 494-4325; downeyws@purdue.edu.

Other News:

Andrew Falwell, who recently received his master's degree in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University, has joined the Center as research associate. He is working with Professor Allan Gray and is responsible for working with clientele to develop research projects. Falwell also manages and conducts ongoing research and communicates results of the research. In addition, Andrew serves as the Center's liaison to graduate students in the Department of Agricultural Economics.

Scott Downey, associate director of the Center is president-elect of the Association of Advertising and Marketing Professionals. Scott has been an active member of the board of AAMP for several years and was treasurer of the organization for several years prior to his current role. The group facilitates a monthly lunch meeting during which marketing practitioners present a variety of topics throughout the year. Vickie Maris, marketing manager for the Center, is also an active participant in the Lafayette-area AAMP.

Programs sponsored by the Center are taught primarily by Purdue faculty in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Center staff. Other Purdue faculty and guests from other universities also serve as instructors in the programs.

For more information: www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers

Janet Ayres attended the Community Development Society conference held July 20-25 in Cleveland, Mississippi. She presented two papers titled, "A New Kind of Community Leadership for Resolving Land Use Issues" and "Building Trust, Leadership and Poser for Action in a Rural Community: A Case Study of White County, Indiana". She was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors.

Janet Ayres conducted a leadership workshop at the National Association of County Agricultural Agents held July 29 in Savannah, Georgia.

Janet Ayres attended the Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Chicago, August 14-18. She presented a paper titled, "Building Vision, Leadership and Power to Act in Rural Communities".

John Connor will give the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Organization for Competitive Markets in Omaha, NE on August 16th, entitled "The Globalization of Corporate Crime: Food and Agricultural Cartels of the 1990s".

Hertel, Thomas W., Terrie Walmsley and Ken Itakura, 2002. "Dynamic Effects of the 'New Age' Free Trade Agreements", presented to the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile, Santiago, July 5.

Edna Loehman presented a paper July 26 at the annual meeting of the University Council on Water Resources held in Traverse City. The theme of the conference was Integrated Trans-boundary Water management. Her paper was entitled "Groundwater Management in a Hydro-Economic Commons: Application to Israel and the West Bank."

Publications

Harounan Kazianga and William A. Masters, 2002. "Investing in soils: field bunds and microcatchments in Burkina Faso", Environment and Development Economics 7(3) pp 571-591.

George F. Patrick and Wesley N. Musser, "Choice Dilemmas and Risk Management Education," Journal of Extension, Vol. 40, No. 3 June 2002 www.joe.org/joe/2002june/iw1.html

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