March 2003

Calendar of Events

Snyder Lecture, April 15th in the Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom.

12:30 p.m. Dessert buffet and graduate student poster competition
1:30 p.m. Dr. Robert Taylor’s lecture on the history of the Department
3:00 p.m. Snyder Lecture: Dr. Susan Offutt, Administrator, Economic Research Service

Congratulations and Names in the News

Eight graduate students received travel grants from IAMA to attend the annual meeting this summer in Cancun, Mexico. Congratulations to: Noah Winslow, Yuliya Bolotova, Tomas Nilsson, Josh Detre, Ana Rios, Kristyn Stone, Chad Hendricks, and Angela Krueger.

Degrees posted for December 2002:

Rodolfo Bongiovanni - PhD - Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Advisor
Joshua Detre - MS - Allan Gray, Advisor
Monica Fisher - PhD - Gerald Shively and Will Masters, Advisors
Anetra Harbor - MS - Marshall Martin, Advisor
Harounan Kazianga - PhD - John Sanders, Advisor
Julia Kozlitina - MS - Channing Arndt, Advisor
Augustine Langyintuo - MS - Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Advisor
Michael Poray - PhD - Allan Gray, Advisor
Charles Zelek - PhD - Gerald Shively, Advisor

Thought You Would Like To Know

Ken Foster is on sabbatical leave until August 2003. He is working with Danish Meat Research Institute (DMRI) in Roskilde, Denmark. DMRI is one of the research arms of the Danish Bacon and Meat Council and conducts research and development for meat slaughter industries worldwide.

The Department welcomed two new faculty to the department: Prof. Corinne Alexander and Prof. Maria Marshall. Dr. Alexander will be focusing on commodity marketing and Dr. Marshall is concentrating on rural business development.

Cole Ehmke attended the Biodiesel Research and Brainstorming Workshop, January 30-31 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Biodiesel is an alternative fuel made from vegetable and animal fats. It can be made from domestically produced, renewable resources like soybeans. It contains no petroleum, but it can be blended with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend that has potential for use in meeting EPA emissions standards. Biodiesel is biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics. People say that the fumes smell like French fries.

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

Around campus:

Construction has begun on the Robert L and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research located on a 10 acre site bounded by South River Road on the east and US 231 on the south.

Work in Cary Quad West is progressing well and should be ready for opening in Fall 2003. All work in Cary Quad should be finished in 2006.

Construction continues on the Dick & Sandy Dauch Alumni Center. The 69,000 sq. foot facility is located at the southwest corner of Grant and Wood Streets and will house the Purdue Alumni Association and the University Development Office as well as serve as a gathering place for alumni.

As part of the Food Service Master Plan for University Residences, construction of an 800-seat two-level freestanding dining court, located between Cary Quad and Owen Hall, is planned to begin in Spring 2003 with anticipated completion in Summer 2004. The project will create a ‘marketplace’ with open dining and food preparation areas.

David C. Pfendler Hall of Agriculture (formerly Ag Hall and Entomology Hall) renovation is scheduled for completion by October 2003. The project includes a 25,000 sq. ft. addition on the south side that connects to Whistler Hall. Pflender Hall will provide modernized space for the School of Agriculture, and the Forestry and Natural Resources department.

Ross-Ade Stadium renovation project is underway and is scheduled for completion prior to the start of the 2003 football season.

Construction of the Visual and Performing Arts building began in the summer of 2001. The project will bring together under one roof many teaching, research, outreach, performance, exhibit, and administrative operations now spread through more than a dozen buildings. Ready in September 2003.

Twelve Purdue Village Apartments were demolished to prepare for four major centers as part the Discovery Park interdisciplinary research complex.

Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

New program designed for seed industry
managers takes place in February

The ASTA (American Seed Trade Association) Advanced Management Forum is a natural follow-up to the longstanding ASTA Management Academy (to be held in March 2003), that has been conducted for over 15 years by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business in collaboration with ASTA. “The ASTA Management Skills Committee has given a lot of thought about the next step in regard to format, length, timing and how to provide the best value in a follow-up program,” says Betty Ottinger, associate director of the Center. “The forum will be an opportunity for participants to dig deeper into topics introduced in the ASTA Management Academy.” The forum takes place Feb. 5 -7, 2003, at the University Place Conference Center in Indianapolis, Ind. Contact Betty Ottinger for information at (765) 494-4328 or bettyso@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

Marshall A. Martin, Aaron W. Howell, Amelia Hammond West, and Anetra Harbor attended the USDA-ARS Corn Rootworm Areawide Management Meeting in Las Vegas (Feb. 11-13). Amelia presented “Areawide Management Economics – Net Present Value and Reducing Scouting Weeks and/or fields in the Illinois/Indiana Site”. Anetra Harbor presented “Managing the Corn Rootworm Variant: Results from an Indiana Farmer survery” Aaron Howell discussed the survey developed for participants in the USDA-ARS areawide pest management project. The survey deals with the transfer of this areawide technology to independently organized groups of farmers.

Will Masters presented a paper entitled, “Effect Demand for Agricultural Innovations: A Prize Mechanism to Reward Successful R&D in Africa” at the NC-1003 meetings on Patents and Their Implications for Public and Private Sector Research, February 28-March 1, 2003 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Lowenberg-DeBoer, J., “Precision Farming or Convenience Agriculture,” keynote presentation at the Australian Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Geelong, VIC, Australia, Feb. 5, 2003.

Otto Doering spoke to the National Conference of State Legislators late February in Dallas. He was able to place the blame for all pathologies of the new farm bill on those states producing cotton, rice and peanuts and still make it alive to his plane home to Indiana.

John M. Connor will present:
“Trends in U.S. Anti-Trust and Competition Law” and “International Cartel Case Studies”, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 4
“Trends in Agro-Industry Consolidation”
“The Globalization of Corporate Crime: Food and Agricultural Cartels of the 1990’s” Societe Francaise d’Economie Rural, Paris, France, March 11, 2003.
“International Price Fixing: Resurgence and Deterrence” Remedies Forum, Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association, Washington, DC, April 2-3, 2003
“Private International Cartels: Welfare Impacts and the Antitrust Response”, International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, April 4-5, 2003.
“Private International Cartels: Resurgence and Deterrence”, Food System research Group Biennial Conference, Madison, WI, June 26-27, 2003.

Publications

Cranfield, J.A.L., J.S. Eales, T.W. Hertel, and P.V. Preckel, 2003. “Model Selection when Estimating and Predicting Consumer Demands using International, Cross Section Data”, Empirical Economics, 28(2):353-364.

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2003. “OECD and non-OECD Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction in Seven Developing Countries”, published in Agricultural Trade and Poverty, Paris: OECD, 2003.

Kevin McNamara and David Brown, “A View from Purdue: Indiana Manufacturing” InContext, available in hard copy and at: http://www.incontext.indiana.edu/august2002/in_the_spotlight.html

Job Announcements

Mississippi State University: Assist/Assoc Extension Professor:
1) Enterprise & Community Resource Development
2) Community Resource Development

University of Vermont: Extension faculty position in Agricultural Marketing

University of Illinois: Soybean Industry Endowed Chair in Agricultural Strategy

Purdue University: Dept of Consumer Sciences and Retailing – Assist Prof – E-Commerce

University of Arizona: Cardon Chair in Agricultural Economics and Policy

University of Wisconsin: Director of the School of Agriculture

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Three positions: Land Economics, Environmental, Economics of Entrepreneurship

Career and Job Sites on the Internet

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