Calendar of Events:
August 18
August 23
October 9-13
December 13
December 18
December 19 |
Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair
Fall 2004 classes begin
October Break
Final Exams Begin
Fall 2004 semester ends
Commencement
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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Betty S. Jones, associate director with the Center for Food and Agricultural Business at Purdue University was presented with the Chairman's Distinguished Service Award by the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) at its annual convention held in Philadelphia, PA on June 27th. The award is in recognition of her leadership and support for the ASTA Management Academy, a professional development program sponsored jointly by ASTA and Purdue for agribusiness managers in the seed industry. It is held every March on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. Jones also serves on the ASTA Management Skills Committee and coordinates the design and implementation of two other programs for the seed industry – the ASTA Advanced Management Forum which is Feb. 16 – 18, 2005 and the ASTA Executive Management Forum scheduled for Feb. 20 - 22, 2006.
Mariah Tanner Ehmke was awarded an American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women Education Foundation.
Congratulations to Terry Griffin who was awarded the Andrews Environmental Grant from the Graduate School. Terry received a grant of $2,500 for research expenses.
AAEA Annual Meeting:
Organized Symposium
Organizer
Excellence in Extension Economics Education |
George Patrick |
Panelist
Redesigning Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling to “Cool” Heated Issues |
Jayson Lusk |
The Economics of Shifting From a County-Based Extension Model to a Regional One |
Mike Boehlje |
Organizer/Moderator
Guidelines for Interviewing and Becoming a Successful Academic Professional |
Christiane Schroeter |
Impacts of Market Liberalization (Moderator) |
Gerald Shively |
Economic Aspects of the Location Decisions of Agribusiness Firms (Moderator) |
Frank Dooley |
Free Session
Testbedding How Risk Affects Consumer Behavior |
Jayson Lusk |
The Feasibility of Creating a Global Agricultural Economics Distance Graduate Education Consortium |
Jay Akridge |
Food Safety and Risk Issues in the U.S./Moroccan Trade Agreement |
Wallace Tyner |
Presentations
Market Policy Issues Related to the Restructuring of Agriculture |
Michael Boehlje |
Regional Diets and Obesity Rates |
James Eales |
Interviewing for Academic Positions – One Hirer's Perceptions and Expectations |
Frank Dooley |
Distinguished Graduate Teaching – More than Ten Year's Experience |
Paul Preckel |
Effect on Program Reputation and the Recruitment of Students |
Joe Uhl |
PhD Programs in Agribusiness |
Jay Akridge |
Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food: Evidence from Experimental Auctions in The United States, England, and France |
Jayson Lusk |
Estimating Willingness-to-Pay Using a Polychotomous Choice Function: An Application to Pork products with Environmental Attributes |
Douglas Miller |
Designing Experimental Auctions for Marketing Research: Effect of Values, Distributions and Mechanisms on Incentives for Truthful Bidding |
Jayson Lusk and Corinne Alexander |
Market Power and Structural Adjustment: The Case of West African Cocoa Market Liberalization |
Michael Wilcox and Philip Abbott |
Market Policy Issues Related to the Restructuring of Agriculture |
Michael Boehlje |
Food Security and Trade |
Philip Abbott |
Certification of Meat Products |
Tomas Nilsson and Ken Foster |
Sharing of Risk and Rewards between Participants in Value Chains |
Paul Preckel, Allan Gray and Michael Boehlje |
Indirect Utility Functions and Testable conditions: Implications of the Underlying Data |
Joshua Detre and Ken Foster |
Consumer Acceptance of GMO Cowpeas in Sub-Sahara Africa |
Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer and Joan Fulton |
Real Options Analysis for Investment in Organic Wheat and Barley Production in South Central North Dakota Using Precision Agriculture Technology |
Mariah Tanner, Alla Golub, Anetra Harbor and Michael Boehlje |
Posters
Consumers Demand For Meat before and after Fat Content Education |
Mariah Tanner and Paul Preckel |
Valuing the Real Option to Invest in Precision Agriculture and Begin Certified Organic Wheat Production in South Central North Dakota |
Mariah Tanner, Alla Golub, Anetra Harbor and Mike Boehlje |
Principal Papers
Auction Design for Voluntary Conservation Programs |
Timothy Cason |
Organizer |
Michael Boehlje |
Presentation |
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Agricultural Innovation and New Ventures: Assessing the Commercial Potential |
Michael Boehlje, Joan Fulton, and Allan Gray |
Smallholder Labor and Deforestation: A Systems Approach |
Gerald Shively |
Selected Papers
Indiana Enterprise Zone Program: Fiscal Impact of a Job Creation Tax Credit |
Sarah Low and Kevin McNamara |
Does Rural Job Growth Lead the Economy out of Recession? |
Alla Golub and Ken Foster |
The Impact of Health Information and Demographic changes on Aggregate Meat Demand |
Christiane Schroeter and Ken Foster |
The Equip Gis, Web-Based Decision Program |
Richard Farnsworth and Bernard Engel |
A Comparison of Risk Management Strategies for Indiana Grain Producers |
Ana Rios and George Patrick |
Evaluation Poverty Impacts of Globalization and Trade Policy Changes on Agricultural Producers |
Ernesto Valenzuela, Thomas Hertel and Maros Ivanic |
Compound Options: A Real Options Application of an Agricultural Business |
Joshua Detre, Brian Briggeman and Allan Gray |
Analysis of Government Farm Subsidies on Farmland Cash Rental Rates Using a Fixed Effect Spatial Distributed Lag Model and a Translog Cost Model |
Dayton Lambert and Terry Griffin |
A Systems Approach for Evaluating on-Farm Site-Specific Management Trials: A Case Study with Variable Rate Manure |
Dayton Lambert and Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer |
Impacts of Objective and Subjective Knowledge: The Case of Genetically Modified Foods |
Jayson Lusk |
Credit Risk Migration Experienced by Agricultural Lenders |
Michael Gunderson |
Agricultural Input Market Segments: Who is Buying? |
Corinne Alexander and Christine Wilson |
Entropy Based Estimation and Inference in Binary Response Models under Endogeneity |
Douglas Miller |
Purchasing Patterns for Nutritional-Enhanced Foods: The Case of Calcium-Enriched Orange Juice |
Alla Golub and James Binkley |
Selected Papers
Vertical Relationships – Moderator – Corinne Alexander
Foreign Direct Investment by European Food Retailing Firms into Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America |
Mariah Tanner |
Impact of Productivity Growth in Crops and Livestock on World Food Trade Patterns |
Carlos Ludena |
ECR and the Importance of Collaboration for Supermarkets |
Maud Roucan and Frank Dooley |
Import Safeguards: Protectionist Measures or a Liberalization Strategy? |
Jason Grant |
Global Analysis of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Assessing Model Validity |
Thomas Hertel, Roman Keeney and Ernesto Valenzuela |
Improving Irrigation Water Allocation Efficiency Using Alternative Policy Options in Egypt |
Lixia He and Wallace Tyner |
Congratulations to Tom Hertel who was named an AAEA Fellow. Other awards include: George Patrick , Distinguished Extension Program – Individual; James Eales , Publication of Enduring Quality; and Josh Detre and Brian Briggeman , 3rd place in the Graduate Student Case Study Competition.
Thought You Would Like To Know:
Agricultural Economics will promote its contribution to Indiana's economic development during Purdue Day at the State Fair. The development activities of three groups will be featured at this highly visible event:
Purdue Day is August 18. Booths from all of Purdue's schools will be located on Main Street from 9am to 7pm. Ag Econ's booths will be near the Our Land Pavilion.
Otto Doering has been appointed to the Governor of Indiana's College Affordability Task Force.
Otto Doering, Chris Hurt, Joan Fulton, Mike Boehlje, Sally Thompson, along with Al Sutton from Ag Engineering and Don Jones from Animal Sciences, have briefed the staff of the Republican candidate for Governor and the current Lt. Governor on agricultural issues critical to the state.
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Janet Ayres participated in the Community Development Society annual meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, July 17 – 21. The theme this year was Chance or Choice? The Rural Urban Futures. Janet served on the program committee, serves on the Board of Directors and is chair of the Action Networks Committee.
Frank Dooley gave a speech to 270 CEOs of Chinese DragonHead companies about The Industrialization of Agriculture and Food Market Trends in the USA in Beijing on June 29 th .
Dayton Lambert and Lexia He presented a paper titled “Chinese Industrial Energy Demand” at the 24 th Annual North American Conference of the USAEE (United State Association of Energy Economics) and IAEE (International Association of Energy Economics) in July.
Dr. Jennifer H. Dennis:
July 17-20 , traveled to Austin TX for the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) and presented “ Do Plant Guarantees Matter?” and “Understanding Behavioral Consequences of Dissatisfied and Regretful Customers”. The paper “Do Plant Guarantees Matter?” will be published in the HortScience journal.
August 7-9, will travel to Boston, MA to give a talk at the American Marketing Association Summer Educators Conference. The talk is entitled “The Determinants of Consumer Regret in Purchase Situations.” This paper will also be published in their conference proceedings.
August 10, 2004, will travel to Atlanta, Georgia to participate in the S290 MultiState Regional Project Meeting.
August 9-12, will be in Atlanta, GA to present two talks at the Southern Nurserymen Association (SNA) conference. The two talks are entitled “Was It Something I Said? Understanding Why Customers Switch” and “Satisfaction Guaranteed: Do Guarantees Help Customers Repurchase Gardening Products?” Both papers will be published in their conference proceedings.
August 28- Sept 4, will travel to the International Symposium on Horticultural Economics and Management (ISHS) . Creating Value in a Changing Society in Berlin , Germany . She will present a talk entitled “Can Experiencing Regret Affect Future Consumer Consumption of Horticultural Products?” This paper will also be published in Acta Horticulturae.
Publications:
Ehmke, Cole, Jay Akridge, Christy Lusk and Jason Lusk. Selecting and Managing Consultants . (EC-719) This publication is the first in a series developed by the Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization Center (AICC). The series presents concepts useful to entrepreneurs as they develop new ventures.
Dimaranan, B., T. Hertel, and R. Keeney, “OECD Domestic Support and Developing Countries.” The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda Prospects and Challenges for Trade-Led Growth, (4):63-91. Palgrave-McMillian , New York , NY, 2004.
Ehmke, Cole and Allan Gray. “The Executive Institute for Commercial Producers Program .” This article will appear in the next issue of the Journal of Extension , www.joe.org .
Abstract: As the business environment changes, the long-term success of farming operations requires farm managers to develop better business management skills. To address this need, the Executive Institute for Commercial Producers (EICP) program provided a comprehensive management curriculum of strategy, finance, business marketing, and human resources. The multi-session workshop stimulated commercial farmers to think about their business from a strategic perspective and make decisions about how to take advantage of their business strengths. To further expand the educational outreach, teaching materials were converted into a web-based format which includes text resources explaining and applying the concepts to today's farm business, annotated PowerPoint presentations and exercises. All of the program content can be found at www.agecon.purdue.edu/farmplan
Lusk, J.D. and J.D. Anderson, “Effects of Country-of-Origin Labeling on Meat Producers and Consumers,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , 29(August 2004):185-205.
Anselin, L., R. Bongiovanni and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, “A Spatial Econometric Approach to the Economics of Site-Specific Nitrogen Management in Corn Production,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 86, 3(2004):675-687.
Job Announcements:
http://www.fao.org/VA/vac_en.htm Commodity Specialist – FAO - Rome California State University, Fresno: Ag Marketing and Agribusiness Management
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City – Center for the Study of Rural America: Research Associate Colorado State University: Assistant Professor, Natural Resources Economics and Regional Economics
Michigan State University: Assistant Professor, Livestock Economist
K-State Research and Extension: Farm Management – Colby, Kansas CSRESS Economics Position: International Trade Specialist www.ars.usda.gov
Michigan Beef Industry Commission: Marketing Position Purdue Extension Service: see website listed below
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