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The Comment Corner The Center for Food and Agricultural Business is launching a busy summer season, complete with international travel and planning for the future. The center will be delivering 48 program days before August 1, including Agribusiness Finance for Non-Finance Managers, Sales Management and Leadership, Precision Selling and a handful of custom programs. The center is also starting the process of drafting a new strategic plan, with the goal of enhancing the center’s research mission through distributive learning and finding innovative methods to distribute faculty research to a broader audience. This summer, Allan Gray and Scott Downey will be trotting around the globe to deliver myCrop Essentials for Leaders, a three-day program intended to help Syngenta employees become more grower-centric and think more like growers do. They will visit Syngenta’s major global regions, including the company’s headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, as well as LATAM (Latin America) and EAME (Europe, Africa and the Middle East). The program incorporates local farmers in each different region, serving to engage Syngenta employees with the growers around them. The myCrop program is not the center’s only international travel slated for this summer. In mid-May, the MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management Class of 2012 will travel to Argentina, escorted by center faculty and staff. The residency in Argentina exposes students to the international business climate, allowing them to think broadly about the diverse factors that drive agribusiness in other countries. The center has recently seen tremendous growth in human capital, adding research associate David Widmar and event managers Abbey Moorman and Katricia Sanchez to its staff. In August, Mike Gunderson will join Purdue’s faculty as a member of the Department of Agricultural Economics. Gunderson received his Ph.D. from Purdue and has taught at the University of Florida, as well as in the center’s MS-MBA and ag finance programs. The center looks forward to welcoming him. Hail Purdue! Two AgEcon Juniors Receive Awards Two Agricultural  Economics juniors were recognized for their leadership on the Purdue campus by two university level awards. Maria Lunik received $3000 from the Class of 1937 Scholarship and $3375 from the Charles O. McGaughey Leadership Award. Laura Donaldson also received $3375 from the Charles O. McGaughey Leadership Award. Read More.
AgEcon Graduate Student Shellye Clark was a Peace Corp Volunteer
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May 2012 Issue
In this Issue
AgEcon Events June 20-21, 2012 - 80th Annual Farm Management Tour June 25, 2012 -2012 GTAP Advisory Board Meeting June 27, 2012 - 15th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
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Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from September 2003 until December 2006. More specifically, I was a Sustainable Agriculture Animal Husbandry volunteer in Santa Maria Visitacion, Solola. Santa Maria is situated in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala in the mountains above Lake Atitlan (a popular tourist destination). The town's population is composed of indigenous Mayans, both Tzu'tujil and K'iche'. 
ten recently selected 2012-13 College of Ag Ambassadors are students from the Department of Agricultural Economics. These students assist the College of Agriculture by leading campus tours for parents, visitors, and prospective students; giving presentations about careers in agriculture and college life; representing the College of Agriculture at information fairs; and hosting alumni and dignitaries at school events. 