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Calendar of Events
March 9
March 11
March 20
March 24
April 6
April 11
April 19
May 1
May 6
May 12
May 13
May 14
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Seminar: 3:30-5 pm - Jim
McDonald - USDA "Scale Economies and Consolidation
in Hog Slaughter"
Spring Break begins
Spring Break ends
Seminar: 12-1:30 pm - Andrew Plantinga, University of
Maine, "The Determinants of Historical Changes
in Agricultural Land Use Patterns"
Seminar: 12-1:30 pm - Anthony Prato, University of Missouri,
"Multiple Attribute Decision Analysis for Ecosystem
Management"
Seminar: 3:00-5 pm - Kevin Hinslow, Economist, Australian
Productivity Commission, "Analyzing the Impact
of Removing Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment In
the Asia-Pacific Region"
SNYDER LECTURE - 3-4 pm, Roberta Cook, University of
California, "A New Frontier: 21st Century Food
Distribution and the Global Economy"
Final Exams begin
Semester ends
Commencement 8 pm
Commencement 9:30 am and 2:30 pm
Commencement 9:30 am |
AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events
April 6
April 26
April 29
May 24
June 1
June 28
July 13
July 26
August 23
August 31
Sept. 27
Sept. 28
Oct. 25
Oct. 31
Nov. 22
Dec. 27
December 27 |
Seminar by Victor Davis Hanson, Cal State,
Fresno
Fourth Friday - 4:30 - location TBA
Pancake Breakfast - 8 am
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Duffer's Tournament at Par View, Picnic at Ken Foster's
house
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Hog Roast - home of Steve Slinsky
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Fall Picnic - Marshall Martin's Blueberry Farm
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Homecoming Bonfire - John Lee's Farm
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Halloween Party
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Fourth Friday - 4:30
Fourth Friday - 4:30
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Alex Gohin, of the INRA (Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique), France, is spending 3 months in the Center
for Global Trade Analysis as a visiting Post-Doc.
Thought You Would Like To Know
For information on the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report
see our web site or contact harrisog@purdue.edu.
Phil Paarlberg and Ken Foster testified before the Senate
Ag Committee concerning concentration, consolidation, and
producer bargaining in the US pork industry.
The Center for Global Trade Analysis will be holding its
annual Advisory Board Meeting at Purdue, April 12-14, 2000.
John Connor will be teaching a course in international
trade in foods at the Advanced Agronomic Institute in Zaragoza,
Spain in the second week of March.
Center for Food and Agricultural Business
Upcoming Programs:
May 6-7, 2002
Strategic Customer Relationship Management
Seminar (ARM)
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.
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
Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE) Executive
Director, Harlan Day, and ICEE Associate Director, Norma
DeLiberty, recently attended an Executive Management Institute
at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Topics covered included Leadership Development, New Directions
in Strategic Planning, Process Improvement, Financial Strategies,
and Marketing. The excellent sessions were targeted for
managers of non-profit organizations.
Lowenberg-DeBoer, Jess, "The Economics of Precision
Agriculture are Site Specific," Western Precision Agriculture
Conference, Pasco, Washington, Feb. 16, 2000.
Hertel, Thomas W., 2000. "A Global Perspective on
Regional Integration in North America", paper presented
to the Sixth Annual Mexico/Canada/US Conference on Trade
Liberalization, San Diego, CA, February 16-18.
Publications
Hallman, Alan, and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, "Cost, Average
Returns and Risk of Switching to Narrow Row Corn,"
Journal of Production Agriculture, 12 (1999), p. 685-691.
Lowenberg-DeBoer, J., "Risk Management Potential of
Precision Farming Technologies," Journal of Agriculture
and Applied Economics, 31(August 1999), p. 275-285.
Sinclair, G., S. Klepper and W. Cohen, 'What's Experience
Got to Do with It? Sources of Cost Reduction in a Large
Specialty Chemicals Producer," Management Science,
February 2000.
Sinclair, G., "Making the Learning Curve Work for
You," Chemical Engineering Progress, 96, February 2000.
Michael Boehlje, "Structural Changes in the Agricultural
Industries: How Do We Measure, Analyze, and Understand Them?"
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 1, No.
5, Proceedings 1999: pp 1028.
Frank J. Dooley and Joan R. Fulton, "The State of
Agribusiness Teaching, Research, and Extension at the Turn
of the Millennium" American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Vol. 1, No. 5, Proceedings 1999: pp 1042.
Michael W. Woolverton and W. David Downey, "A Look
at Agribusiness Education since the Natinal Agribusiness
Education Commission's 1989 Report: The Lincoln Report Revisited"
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 1, No.
5, Proceedings 1999: pp 1050.
Job Announcements
- Food Policy Institute, Rutgers University: Assist Director,
Research Management
- University of Illinois: Full/Assoc/Assist Prof in Consumer
/Family Economics
- University of Georgia: Research Coordinator II financial
and/or market analysis
- State of Wisconsin, Department of Administration: State
Budget Office
- Oregon State University: Assist Prof in Resource &
Environmental Economics
- Colorado State University: Assist Prof of Agribusiness
Management
- Colorado State University: Assist Prof of Ag Econ (production/natural
resource/marketing)
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