September 2005

Calendar of Events:

Congratulations and Names in the News:

Otto Doering received the Presidents Leadership Award at the annual Meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society in August. He was also on the program. He will be on the program at the Farm Progress Show September 1 st .

D. Howard Doster, Purdue Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, is the 2005 recipient of the "Distinguished Service to American Agriculture Award", presented by the American Agricultural Editors Association.  Sonja Hillgren, Farm Journal Sr. Vice President, presented the award to Howard at the association's annual meeting in Milwaukee August 2.  A record 460 persons attended the four-day Ag Media Summit.

Doster was recognized for his on-going service to cornbelt farmers, particularly as co-founder and thirty-year coordinator of the Purdue Top Farmer Crop Workshop.  In 250 public and private multi-day sessions, Doster and his colleagues have helped 7,000 farmers interpret 25,000 linear program computer budgets as the farmers tested alternative crop rotations, machinery sizes, tillage systems, and/or farm sizes for their own operations. He was also thanked for continuing to achieve his goal each month of helping one or more ag journalists write a farm magazine article.

Thought You Would Like To Know:

The team of Whitney Oliver Peake, Michael Gunderson, and Jacob AcMoody finished second in the Graduate Student Case Study competition at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual meetings in Providence , RI in July.

Will Masters will be discussing his initiative to help fund agricultural R&D through prize-type payments at IFPRI in Washington , DC on September 28-29, at a meeting on public-private partnerships for international development.

The Department of Agricultural Economics recently was awarded 2 Ph.D. USDA National Needs Fellowships for eligible students studying in the area of agribusiness management.  

Here are some things coming up for the ICEE:

Sept 15/16:   Entrepreneur Camp - five Indiana teachers will be bringing five students each to campus to learn about entrepreneurship.   Mini grants through the Indiana Department of Education will be available to each team to develop their own company or improve an existing one.

October 12:   Annual Awards Luncheon at the Fountains in Carmel - teachers and educators will be honored for their commitment to economic education

October 19/20:   Econ Camp at Camp Tecumseh:    Co-sponsored by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Indiana Department of Education, the George and Frances Ball Foundation, and the Indiana Council for Economic Education, this annual opportunity for high school teachers of economics to share best teaching practices, review and reinforce an understanding of economic concepts as identified in the state Economics Standards and be encouraged to promote economics as an important part of the curriculum in the high school.

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:

Arguello, Ricardo and Ernesto Valenzuela.  “Impact of the Hemispheric Negotiations on the Andean Community: Implications on Mark et Access”, January 2005. Report to the Comunidad Andina de Naciones. Secretaria General. Lima, Perú .

Arguello, Ricardo and Ernesto Valenzuela. Mark et Access in the Western Hemisphere : Implications for the Andean Community. Borradores de Investigacion 68, June 2005. Universidad del Rosario.

Andres Garcia spent three weeks (June-July) in East Timor  as a Consultant, hired by FAO, training staff from the Ministry of Agriculture in Data Processing. He also spent five weeks in Thailand , working as an intern for the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAORAP) on a project about Ecotourism in Thailand .

Hertel, Thomas, Jeff Reimer, and Ernesto Valenzuela. Incorporating Commodity Stockholding into a General Equilibrium Model of the Global Economy. Economic Modeling, July 2005. 22 (646– 664).

Brigitte Waldorf: attended the International Workshop on Modelling the Entrepreneurial and Innovative Space Economy, Amsterdam , The Netherlands, August 22-23, 2005.

Jody Welsh presented “Economics of Rotational Grazing” at the Dubois Perry Spencer Greener Pasture Day held at the Southern Indiana Purdue Ag Center on Tuesday August 23, 2005.

Kevin McNamara presented a paper, Manufacturing Investment Flows, at the European Regional Science Congress held in Amsterdam August 23-27, 2005.

Wally Tyner attended the meetings of the Europåean Association of Agricultural Economics in Copenhagen , Denmark , August 23-27.  He presented two papers at the meetings and participated in the meeting of the Executive 'Committee of the International Association of Agricultural Economics.

Joan Fulton traveled in Africa earlier this summer visiting Niger , Nigeria and Zambia .  In Niger she was working with collaborators at Institu National de Recherches Agronomiques du Niger (INRAN) on the Bean Cowpea CRSP project.  In Nigeria she worked with collaborators at Abubaker Tafawa Balewu University in Bauchi on the Bean Cowpea CRSP project.  In Zambia Fulton worked with Purdue graduate student Gabriel Jere interviewing farmers as part of data collection for a project on price risk management, funded by CIMMYT.

Joan Fulton participated in the review of the National Center for Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer (NCARTT) and the Ministry of Agriculture Extension program in Jordan in July of this year.  The review was conducted under an Interagency Agreement between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Amman , Jordan , and the USDA Agricultural Research Service. The review team put together by ARS/USDA included 5 USDA scientists and 3 faculty members from Land Grant institutions.

Publications:

Gloy, Brent A., Michael A. Gunderson, and Eddy L. LaDue.  “The Costs and Returns of Agricultural Lending.”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87(3) (August 2005): 703–716.

H. Kazianga and W.A. Masters, “Property Rights, Production Technology and Deforestation: Cocoa in West Africa ,” Agricultural Economics , 2006 (forthcoming).

Hertel, Thomas W. and L. Alan Winters, 2005. “Estimating the Poverty Impacts of a Prospective Doha Development Agenda,” World Economy . 28(8):1057-1072. 

Hertel, T., J. Reimer, and E. Valenzuela. 2005. “Incorporating Commodity Stockholding into a General Equilibrium Model of the Global Economy.” Economic Modelling 22(4): 646-64.

Seminars:

Hertel, T.W., 2005. “Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement”, presented at Institute for World Economy, Kiel , Germany , June 14.

Hertel, T.W., 2005. “Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement”, Organized session: Eighth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Lubeck , Germany .

Job Announcements:

http://www.fao.org/VA/vac_en.htm

McGill – Farm Management Program Director

Kansas State University : Dept Head

Mississippi State : Two faculty positions open

Food Mark eting Policy Center , University of Massachusetts Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

University of Nebraska : Extension Educator Position

University of Minnesota

Purdue Extension Service: see website listed below

Career and Job Sites on the Internet:

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