June/July 2002

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Congratulations and Names in the News:

The Department welcomes Dr. Sarahelen Thompson as Department Head effective July 1, 2002.

Janet Ayres, Larry DeBoer and Gerry Harrison, along with other members of the Purdue Land Use Team, received the Dean's Team Ward on May 14.

During the week of June 2, the Center for Global Trade Analysis held its annual advisory board meeting and conference in Taiwan. This was hosted by the Center of Sustainable Development at National Tsing-Hua University, and sponsored by a dozen ministries and research institutes. The conference was opened with a letter from the President of Taiwan, and there was high level involvement from the Taiwanese government and universities throughout the conference. The Taiwan conference also set a record for overall attendance at this annual event with more than 400 participants - about half from Taiwan and half from overseas. Also in attendance were more than 40 researchers from Mainland China. This was the largest delegation from the Mainland ever to attend an academic conference in Taiwan. For more details, as well as access to the conference program and papers, go to: www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/default.asp

Robert C. Suter announces the publication of Farm Appraisal Principals: Gentlemen Scoundrels Professionals, Eakin Press. Reviewed by Dr. Jake Atkinson.

Thought You Would Like To Know

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EMBA Class spends final in-residency studying in the Netherlands:
The Executive MBA in Food and Agricultural Business class that began in the summer of 2000 recently returned from its in-residency session in the Netherlands. Sixteen students spent two weeks at Wageningen University from April 29 until May 11. This was the fourth and final module of their program. In-class sessions and field rips to several businesses in the Netherlands and the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium helped the students to gain a new appreciation for the international food and agribusiness market. This group of students will graduate in August 2002 with a Masters of Business Administration degree. Applications are currently being taken for the 2002 EMBA class. Contact Luanna DeMay at luanna@purdue.edu.

The Indiana Council for Economic Education is getting ready to sponsor the Indiana Stock Market Simulation (SMS) for the 2002-03 school year. The SMS, with 19,000 student participants (grades 3-12), introduces students to the basics of financial markets in a fun and interesting way. SMS also has divisions for Adults, 4-H, Home School, and College. For more information see the SMS website: www.indianasms.com or call the ICEE office: 765-494-8540.

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.

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 served as an outside reviewer of the Extension Community Development program at the University of Wisconsin, May 22-23. The community-based program in Wisconsin is the premiere program in the country with 62 county agents and 50 state specialists working in this area.

Bongiovanni, Rodolfo, and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, "Economics of Nitrogen Response Variability over Space and Time: Results from the 1999-2001 Field Trials in Argentina," paper presented at the 6th International Precision Agriculture Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 14-17, 2002.

Frank Dooley, Otto Doering and Joan Fulton attended the WCC-72 Agribusiness Committee held June 25 & 26.

Cole Ehmke attended the Maple Leaf Case Study Conference held in conjunction with the IAMA meetings in Noordwijk, Holland. The overall purpose of this conference is to encourage the development of case studies dealing with management in the food and fiber system. This will improve the knowledge about the system and its behavior and will provide training materials that can be used to educate managers. Cole presented: Ag Alumni Seed - an Indiana seed company known for its popcorn seed (teaching strategy) and MBC Farms - a medium-sized hypothetical Indiana farm operation (teaching strategy and finance).

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2002. "Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade", presented at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., May 6.

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2002. "Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade", presented at the OECD Global Agricultural Forum, Paris, May 24.

Hertel, Thomas W. "Product Differentiation and Market Structure in CGE Models of International Trade", presented to the pre-conference Learning Workshop at the Fifth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan, June 4.

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2002. "Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade", presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan, June 6.

Lambert, D.; Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.; and R. Bongiovanni. "Spatial Regression, an Alternative Statistical Analysis for Landscape Scale On-farm trials: Case Study of Variable Rate and Application in Argentina." Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, MN, July 14-17, 2002.

Publications

Shapiro, Barry I., and John Sanders, "Natural Resource Technologies for Semiarid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa," Ch. 20 in C.B. Barrett, F. Place, and AA. Aboud, Natural Resources Management in African Agriculture: Understanding and Improving Current Practices. New York: CABI Publishing, 2002, pp. 261-274.

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