January 2002

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Congratulations and Names in the News:

Jennifer Vandeburg will be leaving the Department in mid-January to work with Dirk Maier in ABE.

Matt Mooney has accepted a position at the University of Arizona as Distance Education Specialist for the Arizona Area Health Education Centers for the state of Arizona effective April 2002.

Professor Larry Bohl, who has been a teacher and counselor with the Agricultural Economics department for over 35 years will be retiring as of January 4, 2002. The department has planned a special retirement program for Dr. Bohl to be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Krannert Drawing Room (main floor of Krannert) on Thursday, January 24, 2002. Dr. Bohl would be honored by your presence.

Dr. Levi Cabanilla, School of Public Affairs, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, is visiting the department for several months. He will be working with Dr. Gerald Shively.

Thought You Would Like To Know

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

Sections of AGEC Staff Paper 98-18 were cited in an official decision of the Competition Directorate of the European Commission that imposed fines totaling $110 million on five companies for illegal price fixing. Dr. John Connor

Ag Econ launches a new Study Abroad web site:

The start of the fall semester was marked by the introduction of a new destination on the world wide web. The site, designed by Associate Professor Gerald Shivery and department web specialist Matt Mooney, aims to promote and facilitate study abroad among Ag Econ undergraduates. The site includes basic information on study abroad, video clips from students who have recently studied abroad, and a ‘location finder' designed to help students locate study abroad programs that match their interests. The site, which is located at www.agecon.purdue.edu/study_abroad also contains special information for parents of study abroad students as well as information for individuals and institutions interested in sponsoring undergraduate study aborad.

Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE) Executive Director, Harlan Day and Associate Director, Bev Brewer, will travel to Tampa, Florida in mid-January to meet with their counterparts at the Florida Council on Economic Education. ICEE Chairman, Mike Brian of AEP, will also make the trip, meeting with the Chairman of the Florida Council. The purpose of the meeting is to share information, successful programs, and new fundraising strategies.

Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

March 4-9, 2002
American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) Management Academy XV

May 6-7, 2002
Strategic Customer Relationship Management Seminar (ARM)

The Center for Food and Agricultural Business will host participants for several different programs in February. The Executive Institute for Commercial Producers, a collaborative effort between Farm Credit Services of Mid-America and Purdue University, is a series of seminars conducted for young and innovative large-scale producers. The second class of EICP producers will be in its second session on the West Lafayette campus from Feb. 11-13. Class 1 is in its fourth session from Feb. 15-16, which will take place in Louisville, KY. To learn more, visit the website: www.agecon.purdue.edu/ext/eicp.

The center is holding another session in the strategy seminar series, Feb. 20-21, with Central Soya, a company of Cereol, which is leading European processor of oilseeds in Europe and the world leader for the further processed lecithins. About 30 employees of Central Soya participate in this program.

The Executive Management Forum for the American Seed Trade Association is a new program that will take place Feb. 25-27 in Chicago, IL. This event is specifically designed by the Center for executives in the seed industry.

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

Jay T. Akridge presented a seminar "Distance Delivered Adult Education: Some Lessons from the Purdue EMBA in Food and Agribusiness" on January 25th at the Ohio State University.

Paul Preckel hosted the annual meeting of regional research committee NC-205 titled "Ecology and Management of European Corn Borer and Other Stalk-Boring Lepidoptera" in Indianapolis, January 27-30.

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Otto Doering traveled in early January to Menomonie and LaCrosse, Wisconsin to talk on options for the coming farm bill for the University of Wisconsin Extension Service.

Hertel, Thomas W. 2001. "Putting Trade Models on the Web: Experience from the Global Trade Analysis Project", presented to the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Tucson, Arizona, December, 2001.

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel and Jeffrey J. Reimer 2001. "Trade Policy, Food Price Variability and the Vulnerability of Low Income Household", presented to the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Tucson, Arizona, December, 2001.

Hertel, Thomas W. 2001. "Comments on "Globalization; Civil and Cultural Conflicts' by Ron Jones", presented to the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, Tucson, Arizona, December, 2001.

Edna Loehman will present a paper for the Workshop in Public Finance, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, January 16 at 3:30 entitled "Cost Sharing for Public Goods: Exploring Alternative Institutions for Coordination under Heterogeneity". In December, Edna Loehman represented Purdue University at the NC230 regional meeting ("Integrating Biophysical Functions of Riparian Systems with Management Practices and Policies"). This meeting was held in conjunction with the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Society annual meeting.

Will Masters met with the Advisory Committee of the Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa, December 18th in Washington, DC. On January 25th, he will present a seminar at IFPRI in Washington on "The Value of Quality Certification for Infant Foods", from a paper co-authored with Diakalia Sanogo.

Bob Taylor will travel to Spearfish, SD on January 26th to address the Nebraska, South Dakota Farm Bureau State Convention on "How to farm with family and stay friends".

Publications

Anderson, Kym, Betina Dimaranan, Joe Franciois, Thomas W. Hertel, Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin, 2001. "The Cost of Rich (and Poor) Country Protection to Developing Countries," Journal of African Economies, 10(3):227-257.

Hertel, Thomas W., Terrie Walmsely and Ken Itakura, 2001. "Dynamic Effects of the ‘New Age' Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Singapore", Journal of Economic Integration, December, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1019-1049.

Mohler, James. L. & Mooney, Matthew. E. (2000). DreamWeaver UltraDev 4: Dynamic Web Development. Albany, NY: OnWord Press.

Job Announcements

California State University - Fresno	Ag Economist in water policy and natural resources
University of Georgia	Post Doctoral Associate Position - economics of peanut production
Rutgers	Assist/Assoc/Full Prof in Business Economics and a position in Public Policy
Michigan State	Assist Prof - fruit industries/marketing, agribusiness
Louisiana State University	Assist Prof - trade in the world peanut market
Kansas State University	Extension Ag Economist
Louisiana State University	Postdoctoral Research in production and farm management
University of Maryland at College Park	Economic development
University of Tennessee	Assist or Assoc Prof - Extension
USDA - Research Associate	http://www.ers.usda.gove/AboutERS/Employment
Purdue Extension Service	see website listed below

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