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NIFA Review Team Agenda/Schedule

Sunday, October 23

4:00 to 4:30 pm Review Team

Meeting Robbin Shoemaker, Chair

Lisa House

Curtis Jolly

Danny Klinefelter

Brian Roe

Krannert

661

4:30 to 5:00 pm Orientation

Meeting

Kenneth Foster, Department Head

Joan Fulton, Associate Department Head

Krannert

661

5:00 pm Dinner on

own

Monday, October 24

8:00 to 9:30 am College of

Agriculture

Administration

Deans and

Directors

Jay Akridge, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture

Marcos Fernandez, Assoc. Dean & Director of Academic

Programs

Karen Plaut, Assoc. Dean & Director of

Agricultural Research Programs

Kashchandra Raghothama, Assoc. Director of

International Programs in Agriculture

Charles Hibberd, Assoc. Dean & Director of

Purdue Extension

Pamala Morris, Assis. Dean & Director of Multicultural

Programs

AGAD

128

9:45 to 10:15 am Informal

Coffee

Faculty Krannert

661

10:15 to 12:00pm Department

Overview

Undergraduate Program, Graduate Program,

Research, Extension:

Kenneth Foster, Frank Dooley (arrives @ 10:30), Craig

Dobbins, Gerald Shively, Gerald Shively, Christopher

Hurt, Joan Fulton

Krannert

661

12:00 to 1:15 pm Lunch Clerical and AP Staff

Krannert

661

1:15 to 2:45 pm Work Session NIFA Review Team Krannert

680 / 661

3:00 – 3:45 pm Graduate

Students

Krannert

661

3:45 – 5:00 pm Meet with

Representative

Stakeholders

Stakeholders from groups representing: Extension clientele,

alumni, commodity associations, and collaborators in other

disciplines have been invited (complete names and titles

will follow)

Mark Thornburg, General Counsel,

Indiana Farm Bureau

Katrina Hall, Tax and Local Government Spec.

Indiana Farm Bureau

Joe Kelsay, Director,

Indiana State Dept. of Agriculture

Emily Otto-Tice, Director Production &

Environment, Indiana Soybean Alliance

Matt Hartman, Commercial Manager,

Archer Daniels Midland

Christy Penner, Crop Protection Rep,

Dow AgroSciences

Michael Schutz, Professor, Purdue Animal Science

Krannert

661

5:00 – 5:30 pm Break

5:30 – 7:30 pm Reception Faculty, Staff, Stakeholders Krannert

Drawing

Room –

South Side

Evening Work Session NIFA Review Team Krannert

680 / 661

Tuesday, October 25

8:00 to 9:00 am Assistant and

Associate

Professors

Krannert

661

9:00 – 9:15 am Break

9:15 to 10:45 am Faculty

Groups

Agribusiness

Farm Mgmt / Production

Prices and Markets

Discussion Leaders: Corinne Alexander, Brent Gloy, Joan

Fulton

Krannert

661

10:45 to 12:00pm Break and

Work Session

NIFA Review Team Krannert

680 / 661

12:15 to 1:15 pm Lunch with

College of

Bernard Engel, Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Joseph Anderson, Agronomy

Wabash

Room,

Agriculture

Department

Heads

(invited)

Terry Stewart, Animal Sciences

Clint Chapple, Biochemistry

Peter Goldsbrough, Botany & Plant Pathology

Steve Yaninek, Entomology

Suzanne Nielsen, Food Science

Robert Swihart, Forestry & Natural Resources

Robert Joly, Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Roger Tormoehlen, Youth Development & Ag Education

Sagamore

Restaurant,

Reserved

9/23

1:30 to 2:15 pm Department of

Economics,

Krannert

School of

Management

John Barron, Economics Department Head

Ananth Iyer, Assoc. Dean of Graduate Programs

Krannert

661

2:15 to 3:15 pm Faculty

Groups

Small Business/Community Development

Regional/Urban and Spatial

Discussion Leaders: Maria Marshall, Raymond Florax

Krannert

661

3:15 to 3:30 pm Break

3:30 to 4:30 pm Faculty

Groups

International

Energy, Environmental and Resource Economics

Discussion Leaders: Holly Wang, John Lee

Krannert

661

4:30 to 5:30 pm Work Session NIFA Review Team Krannert

680

5:30 to 6:45 pm Pizza with

Undergraduate

Students

Krannert

661

Evening Work Session NIFA Review Team Krannert

680 / 661

Wednesday, October 26

8:00 to 9:00 am Exit Interview

Purdue Central

Administration

Timothy Sands, Provost

Suresh Garimella, Assoc Provost

Dale Whittaker, Provost for Engagement

Jeffrey Bolin, Assoc.VP for Research

HOVD

119

9:15 to 10:15 am Exit Interview

College of

Agriculture

Administration

Jay Akridge, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture

Marcos Fernandez, Assoc. Dean & Director of Academic

Programs

Karen Plaut, Assoc. Dean & Director of

Agricultural Research

Kashchandra Raghothama, Assoc. Director of

International Programs in Agriculture

Charles Hibberd, Assoc. Dean & Director of

Purdue Extension

AGAD

128

Pamala Morris, Assist. Dean & Director Multicultural Pro.

10:30 to 12:00pm Preliminary

Report

from Team

Krannert

661

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section

I Introduction

II Indiana Agriculture

III Higher Education in Indiana

IV Purdue University and the College of Agriculture

V Department of Agricultural Economics

VI Strategic Directions

VII Undergraduate Programs

VIII Graduate Programs

IX Extension Programs

X Center for Food and Agricultural Business (CAB)

XI Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP)

XII AICC / New Ventures

XIII Center for Commercial Agriculture (CCA)

XIV Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE)

XV Center for Rural Development

XVI Site Specific Management Center

XVII Space Health and Population Economics

Appendices

A Teaching / Extension / Research Appointments

B Faculty and Staff Profiles

C Faculty and Staff Awards

D Faculty and Staff Peer Recognition

E Publications Summary

F Publications List

G Theses and Dissertations

Section I, Page 1

Department of Agricultural Economics

Purdue University

NIFA Review

October 24 – 26, 2011

I. INTRODUCTION

The Department is pleased to welcome the following members of the NIFA

Review team:

Robbin Shoemaker; NIFA, USDA, Chair of the team

Lisa House; University of Florida

Curtis Jolly, Auburn University

Danny Klinefelter, Texas A&M University

Brian Roe, The Ohio State University

The Department of Agricultural Economics has approached this review as an

opportunity to reflect upon where we are as a result of the changes that have occurred

since our last review in 2005, our trajectory as we look forward to what it will be like to

operate in the changing world of higher education. The purpose of the review is two-fold.

First, the Department is using the review as a vehicle to focus our thinking on planning

and position our programs for the future. Second, Purdue University uses departmental

reviews as the principle evaluative measure of departmental performance.

Welcome to the review team members

This review document is structured as follows. The next section contains

background information on agriculture in Indiana, Purdue University and the College of

Agriculture, and the structure and operations of the Department of Agricultural

Economics. The third section of this report explores strategic directions for the

Department and is the result of a department-wide exercise conducted during the spring

of 2011. Next, a series of reports describing the different functional areas of the

Department are presented. A set of Appendices is found at the end of the report with

additional details.

Section II, Page 1

II. INDIANA AGRICULTURE

Agriculture Contribution and Population

Production agriculture and forestry and fishing services accounted for $4,038 million of

Indiana’s $275,676 million Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010.1 However, the addition of

other related sectors such as lumber and wood products, furniture and fixtures, food and

beverage products, textile mill products, paper and related products, etc., contributed an

additional $6,975 million to the GDP. While Indiana’s GSP is concentrated in manufacturing,

retail and service industries, the food and agriculture sector’s share is an important and changing

component of the state economy.

Indiana’s population has grown from 5.5 million residents in 1980 to 6.5 million in 2010. Over

that same period, however, the percentage of residents in rural areas has declined. In 1980, 24%

of the State’s residents were in rural areas. By 2010 that percentage had declined to 22%. While

declining in percentage terms, Indiana’s rural population and their communities are a

fundamentally important piece of the State’s economic development and revitalization efforts. In

2009, over 19% of the State’s workforce (3.5 million) was in rural areas. The annual per capita

earnings that year for rural-based jobs was $30,129 compared to $35,095 for urban-based jobs.2

Segmentation of Indiana’s Agricultural Sector

Indiana’s food and agricultural sector is highly diverse, even though the Mid West section of the

United States is often considered to be devoted to corn, soybeans and hogs. Table II.1 below

illustrates some of the 2009 national production rankings for the State’s leading agricultural

sectors.

Table II.1. Indiana Rankings in Key Agricultural Sectors in 20093

Commodity Rank

Tomatoes for Processing 2

Peppermint/Soybeans 4

Corn/ Spearmint/Fresh Market Cantaloupe 5

Fresh Market Watermelon 6

Snap Beans for Processing/ Cucumbers for Processing 8

Blueberries 10

Ice Cream 2

All Hogs - Inventory 5

All Chickens -Inventory 2

Further information on agriculture in Indiana can be found from Indiana Agricultural Statistics at

http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Indiana/Publications/Annual_Statistical_Bulletin/0

910/10general.asp

1 http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqid=70&step=1&isuri=1&acrdn=1

2 http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/IN.HTM

3 http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Indiana/Publications/Annual_Statistical_Bulletin/0910/pg2.pdf

Section III, Page 1

III. HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIANA

Indiana’s higher education system consists of five 4-year public institutions (with

15 campuses), a statewide 2-year technical college with 24 campuses, and 38 private

universities and colleges. Higher education had a combined enrollment of 330,437

students in 2009 (Indiana Commission for Higher Education).The enrollment of Purdue

University West Lafayette Campus in Fall 2010 was 39,726 students, while the

enrollment in the College of Agriculture for all was 3,276.

Indiana is served by two major state research and teaching universities – Purdue

University and Indiana University. Purdue does virtually all of the agriculturally related

teaching and research. A two-year institution, Vincennes University, offers courses in

agriculture in collaboration with Purdue. The Department works with Vincennes

University to help identify instructors for agricultural economics courses, approve

curriculum and transfer credits. An articulation agreement allows those students to

seamlessly transfer to Purdue College of Agriculture. Pathway to Purdue is a partnership

with Ivy Tech Community College-Lafayette designed to help make higher education

even more accessible to Indiana students. This program allows Ivy Tech students to co-

enroll in the College of Agriculture in preparation for an undergraduate degree, taking

courses simultaneously at both institutions.

The College of Agriculture has also placed agricultural advisors in Indiana-

Purdue Fort Wayne, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and Purdue North

Central A member from the department visits coordinators from these other universities

on a regular basis to assist transfer students.

Table III.1: Enrollment at Purdue University

Campus Enrollment

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

West Lafayette 39,228 39,102 40,090 39,697 39,726

Calumet 9,303 9,607 9,325 10,133 9.807

Ft. Wayne 11,672 11,943 12,338 13,675 14,192

North Central (Westville) 3,724 3,904 4,245 4,463 4,614

Statewide Technology 1,358 1,383 1,361 1,387 1,355

Total 65,285 65,939 67,359 69,355 69,694

Source: Purdue Data Digest – http://www.purdue.edu/DataDigest/

http://www.purdue.edu/DataDigest/

Section IV, Page 1

IV. PURDUE UNIVERSITY AND THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

The administrative organization of the University is displayed in Figure IV-1. The Dean

of the College of Agriculture, J.A. Akridge, reports to the Executive Vice President for

Academic Affairs & Provost, T. D. Sands; who in turn reports to University President, France

Cordova; who reports to the University Board of Trustees. The administrative organization of the

College of Agriculture is displayed in Figure IV-2. The Agricultural Economics Department

Head, Kenneth Foster, reports to the Dean of the College of Agriculture.

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Section V, Page 1

V. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS1

Mission

The mission statement for the Department of Agricultural Economics is as follows:

The mission of the Department of Agricultural Economics is to acquire and transmit new economic

knowledge to the citizens of Indiana, the nation, and the world to permit them to make more

informed decisions.

Brief History

The following points provide a brief history of the Department and show the origins of a

few of its major programs:

In 1920 the Department was established as a "Farm Management" Department, and the

early activities of the Department were built largely around that phase of agricultural

economics.

Purdue University conferred the first two Master’s degrees in farm management in 1922.

Large-scale efforts were first made by the Department to distribute economic outlook

information in 1929-30. Economic Outlook work continues to be a major thrust of the

Department's Extension faculty to this day.

Purdue University conferred the first Ph.D. degree in farm management in 1937. Earl L.

Butz was the recipient of this degree.

The name of the Department was changed to Agricultural Economics in 1942.

J.C. Bottum, with assistance from J.O. Dunbar and J.B. Kohlmeyer, pioneered

Extension work in the area of public policy. The first mention of public policy in the

annual Extension report was in 1945-46.

The number of Ph.D. degrees conferred by Purdue University in Agricultural Economics

increased relative to the number of M.S. degrees beginning in 1947 when 5 Ph.D.

degrees and 3 M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics were conferred by the University.

After 1940, a few faculty members began taking leaves to accept foreign assignments.

By 1969, about one-third of the faculty had completed short-term or long-term foreign

assignments. International activities continue to be important for our department.

1 The Department website http://www.agecon.purdue.edu also provides extensive information about Department news and programs.

http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/

Section V, Page

2

Beginning in 1967, five agricultural departments at Purdue began the Top Farmer

Workshop. John Kadlec and Howard Doster were involved in starting this program

which has run continuously since 1967. This program is now being led by the Center for

Commercial Agriculture.

In 1985, the Extension Family and Agricultural Resource Management (F.A.R.M.)

program was established to help financially stressed farmers.

A Center for Agricultural Business (CAB) was established within the Department in

1986. Dave Downey was the first Director of CAB. Jay Akridge took over as Director of

CAB in 200, followed by Allan Gray in 2009 and still serves that role.

In 1988 the Center for Rural Development was established to help strengthen and better

coordinate our work in this area. Kevin McNamara currently is director of this center.

In 1992, the Center for Global Trade Analysis was formed. Outside Purdue, the Center

is known as The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). Thomas Hertel is Executive

Director of the center and project.

In 1998, the Purdue Board of Trustees and the Indiana Commission on Higher

Education approved our distance learning Executive MBA in Agribusiness joint with the

Purdue Krannert School of Management. The first class began in 1999. Jay Akridge was

the original director of that program. This program was adapted and changed to the joint

MS/MBA program, with the Kelley School of Management at Indiana University as the

new partner.

Purdue’s New Ventures Team was launched in 2002 as an Extension program to provide

assistance to small business owners and entrepreneurs. It was deliberately structured

with campus specialists and county educators to ensure the latest research was

incorporated in the team’s programming at the same time as ensuring that the

programming is current and relevant for the stakeholders. The grass roots connections

with the county educators was a key factor in securing the funding from USDA for the

innovation center which launched the Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization

Center (AICC). With leadership from Joan Fulton (2002-2007 and 2009 – current) and

Maria Marshall (2007-2009) the team works closely with AICC to provide business

planning assistance to entrepreneurs and small business owners through workshops,

conferences, individual consultations, Extension publications, INVenture, a web-based

interactive business planning tool, and MarketMaker, an interactive mapping system that

locates Indiana businesses and markets of agricultural products. The work of the team

has been honored with awards at Purdue’s College of Agriculture level (Purdue

University Cooperative Extension Specialists Association Team Award and the Dean’s

Team Award); the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Extension Section

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best web site award, and United States Association of Small Business and

Entrepreneurship, Best Doctoral Paper Award (Whitney Oliver-Peake’s dissertation

with M. Marshall as advisor). The team won the 2009 AAEA Distinguished

Extension/Outreach Program Group Award. Current members from Agricultural

Economics are: Drs. Jennifer Dennis, Joan Fulton, Maria Marshall and Kwamena

Quagrainie.

In 2003, Thomas Hertel was named a Distinguished Professor by the Purdue University

Board of Trustees.

In 2003, the Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization Center (AICC) was created

with financial support from the USDA (one of 10 innovation centers that USDA

sponsored) and co-directed by Michael Boehlje and Joan Fulton. Joan Fulton has served

as director since 2009 and is active in the development and delivery of programs to

assist individuals and groups evaluate new business opportunities.

In 2004 Department Head, Sally Thompson, instituted the Apex Awards as a way to

recognize stakeholders who maintain a close relationship with the department and who

have made outstanding contributions in their fields.

A joint M.S./M.B.A. program in collaboration with the Kelley School of Management at

Indiana University was approved by the University, and the first class began in 2004.

The program current program director is Allan Gray who succeeded Jay Akridge. This

program supplanted the Executive MBA program in Agribusiness whose final class

graduated in 2004.

In 2004, Jay Akridge was named the James and Lois Ackerman Endowed Professor of

Agricultural Economics.

Since 2004 under the leadership of Wallace Tyner, the department has had a

substantial research and outreach program in energy economics and policy with a

focus on biofuels. Topics have spanned firm level assessments of ethanol economics,

sector level analysis of alternative biofuels policies, economy-wide analysis of the

global impacts of biofuels programs in the U.S. and E.U., greenhouse gas emissions

and land use change associated with biofuels, biomass and many other topics. The

faculty and staff involved have generated several million dollars in funding, and are

working on a wide range of energy economics and related topics. In 2007, Wallace

Tyner received the “Energy Patriot Award” from Senator Richard Lugar, and since

2008 he has served as Co-Director of the Purdue Center for Research on Energy

Systems and Policy.

With the addition of Raymond Florax and Brigitte Waldorf in 2005, Space, Health

and Population Economics (SHaPE) became the Department’s newest addition to the

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set of specialty areas for master’s and Ph.D. students who are researching topics

interfacing spatial econometrics, regional/urban economics, spatial demography, and

health economics.

In 2007 Michael Boehlje was named a Distinguished Professor by the Board of

Trustees.

In 2007 Jay Akridge was named Interim Vice Provost for Engagement, and in 2008 he

was appointed as Interim Dean of Agriculture.

Paul Preckel was named Faculty Director of the State Utility Forecasting Group (SUFG)

in 2007. The SUFG is affiliated with the Energy Center at Discovery Park.

In 2009 Jay Akridge was named the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture.

In 2010 Wallace Tyner was named the James and Lois Ackerman Professor of

Agricultural Economics.

2010 is the inaugural year for the IVY Tech Pathway to Purdue program established to

help make higher education more accessible to Indiana students. The program allows

IVY Tech students to co-enroll at Purdue in preparation for an undergraduate degree in

the College of Agriculture.

In 2010, Ken Foster and Holly Wang attended the first ever Purdue Day at China

Agriculture University (CAU) in Beijing, P.R. China. Further collaborations between

the Department of Agricultural Economics and the CAU School of Economics and

Management were discussed.

Otto Doering was named the Director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center in

2010.

The Center for Commercial Agriculture (CCA) was established in 2010 with Brent Gloy

as Director.

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The persons who have served as Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue

University are as follows:

Name Years

O.G. Lloyd 1920-46

E.L. Butz 1946-54

L.S. Hardin 1954-66

C.E. French 1966-73

P.L. Farris 1973-82

W.D. Dobson 1982-88

W.E. Tyner 1989-02

S. Thompson 2002-08

K. Foster 2008 -

Administration

The department is administered by a Department Head (Ken Foster) and three part-time

Associate Department Heads: Gerald (Jerry) Shively, Joan Fulton, and Craig Dobbins. In

addition, Christopher Hurt serves as Extension Coordinator. Ken manages the day to day

administration of the Department focusing on issues of personnel, policy, outreach and

marketing and financing the Department’s activities. As Director of Graduate Programs Jerry

Shively focuses primarily on the Graduate Program, including recruitment, managing the flow of

applications through the Graduate Committee, recommending funding, overseeing policy

relevant to the Graduate Program, and tracking students’ progress through the programs. Joan

Fulton is charged with departmental awards and special projects as assigned and serves as

backup of the Administrative team. As Director of Undergraduate Programs, Craig Dobbins

handles all aspects of the administration of the Undergraduate Program, including curriculum

issues and management of advising services. Chris Hurt serves as liaison with Extension

administration on programming efforts, including organizing departmental activities involving

groups of specialists, facilitating the activities and publications of other Extension specialists,

and coordinating Extension educator training programs.

Ken is assisted by the following administrative staff in the department office:

Assistant to the Department Head (Debby Weber) – Debby has responsibilities including

supervision of the clerical staff, coordination of faculty and administrative professional

searches and interviews for open positions, coordination of visiting scholars, employee

visas, liaison with the Office of International Students and Scholars and the Office of

Institutional Equity, management of faculty and administrative professional promotion

processes, working papers, and special projects.

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Graduate Program Coordinator (Lou Ann Baugh) - Lou Ann is responsible for managing

graduate applicant and student files, graduate student recruitment, liaison with the

graduate school, coordinating assistantships with the business office, building and space

management tasks, and serving as a clearinghouse for employment information for our

graduate students.

The business office includes 3 FTE of staff who are full time in the department (Jill

Hufford, Neisha Kennedy, and Vicki Bower). In addition there is a business manager

(Kim Mullen), shared with one other department, who has overall responsibility for

budget preparation, activity reports, and other business activities.

Craig Dobbins is assisted by 2 FTE of counseling staff in the undergraduate program

office, LeeAnn Williams and Andy Oppy. LeeAnn is the Director of Undergraduate

Advising and Student Services and plays a major role in undergraduate counseling,

recruiting, and promotion of our food industry marketing and management program.

Andy Oppy serves as an Academic Advisor and Career Services Coordinator.

Amy Cochran serves as Placement Coordinator and acts as the liaison between industry

employers and undergraduate students seeking internships and permanent employment.

A substantial amount of administrative work also is done by other faculty in departmental

committees. The list of current committee membership in Table V-1. The chairperson of the

Graduate Committee (Gerald Shively) plays a major role in graduate student recruitment,

managing the flow of applications through the Graduate Committee, and in guiding decisions on

graduate program policy issues. The Prelim Committee chair (Steven Wu) manages the Ph.D.

preliminary examination process and establishes ad hoc committees to grade the microeconomic

theory exams. The Awards Committee identifies departmental faculty and staff for awards within

and outside of Purdue and ensures strong nominations are submitted.

The Computer Committee makes decisions and recommendations on computer policies,

hardware, software, etc. Committee chair (Paul Preckel) coordinates with the Computer Services

Manager (Carol Wood) on issues related to the computer networks and facilities. The “Hanging”

committee chaired by Larry DeBoer, is responsible for arranging retirement functions. The

Underrepresented Staff & Student Recruitment Committee, chaired by Jennifer Dennis, is

responsible for recruitment of minority students and staff. The Seminar Committee, chaired by

Phillip Paarlberg and Michael Boehlje is responsible for departmental seminar and workshop

programs and for the Snyder Memorial Lecture held each spring. The Library Committee,

chaired by James Binkley advises the Director of the Management and Economics Library

regarding subscriptions, acquisitions and space utilization for the library housed in the Krannert

Building.

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Table V-1: Agricultural Economics 2011-12 Departmental Committees

Graduate Committee Seminar Committee

Gerald Shively, Chair Phil Paarlberg, Chair

James Binkley Michael Boehlje

Philip Abbott Jake Ricker-Gilbert

Nicole Olynk Juan Sesmero

Wallace Tyner Patrick Hatzenbuehler (Graduate Student)

Patrick Ward (Graduate Student)

Computer Committee Underrepresented Staff & Student

Recruitment

Paul Preckel, Chair Jenifer Dennis, Chair

Carol Wood (AP Staff) LouAnn Baugh (AP Staff)

James Eales Roman Keeney (DiversityTeam in Agriculture

Liaison)

Jeff Greiner (AP Staff) Craig Dobbins

Anita Yadavalli (Graduate Student) Gerald Shively

LeeAnn Williams (AP Staff)

AP Promotions Nicole Jones (Graduate Student)

Ken Foster, Chair (non-voting) Morgan Murff (Undergraduate Student)

Carol Wood (AP Staff)

Jeff Sanson (AP Staff) Preliminary Committee

Ginger Batta (AP Staff) Steven Wu

Kim Cook (AP Staff) Others as needed

April Sauer (AP Staff)

Jill Hufford (alternate) Library Committee

James Binkley, Chair

Awards Brigitte Waldorf

Joan Fulton, Chair

Corinne Alexander “Hanging” Committee

Scott Downey Larry DeBoer, Chair

Kim Cook (AP staff) Maria Marshall

Brenda Pearl (Clerical)

Ken Foster

Budget

Information on 2004-2005, 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 actual expenditures is provided in

Table V-2. Total expenditures for 2010-2011 were $11 million which was up 5 percent from the

prior year, compared to the 9.8 percent growth rate experienced over the 2004 – 2009 period.

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The fraction of total expenses from external was almost 50% in 2004-2005 dropping to 45% in

2009-2010 and increasing to almost 49% in 2010-2011. The percentage of operating expenses

from external sources has been increasing steadily from 87% in 2004-2005 to 89% in 2009-2010

to 93% in 2010-2011.

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Table V-2: Expenditure Comparison 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2010-11

2004-05 2009-10 2010-11

Amount % External Amount % External Amount % External

Salaries

Faculty / AP $5,535,900 35.0 $6,673,882 26.5 $6,988,597 28.8

Clerical 539,646 18.1 375,119 15.0 362,320 22.0

Grad

Assistants

1,124,914 83.7 817,654 72.0 739,037 76.2

Operating

Expenses

2,343,379 86.9 2,612,462 88.6 2,949,068 92.9

Total $9,543,839 49.9 $ 10,479,117 45.1 $11,039,022 48.8

*External funds include non-hard fund expenditures including sponsored research, CAB and ICEE activities

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Focusing on 2010-2011, the vast majority of these expenditures are for Faculty and

Administrative/Professional (A/P) salaries. Graduate assistant stipends amount to about one

ninth and clerical salaries to about one nineteenth of Faculty and A/P salaries. Operating

expenses amount to just over one-quarter of the total expenditures. The fraction of these

expenditures that has come from external funds has grown steadily over time. During the 2004-

05 to 2010-11 period, the fraction of expenditures from external sources increased in every

category.

External Support

Table V-3 provides a summary of expenditures from external sources of support for

each fiscal year from 2005 to 2011. The single largest categories are from USDA for Grants,

Cooperative Agreements, and Fellowships. There is considerable variability of the funds

from each government agency, from year to year, dependent upon the timing of major

grants.

For non-Federal externally supported expenditures, the industry/foundation total has

been growing over the 2005 - 2011time period. State and local government supported

expenditures has also been variable with 2011 expenditures over twice as large as 2005

expenditures. Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) research grants and Purdue fellowships

have also been reasonably steady. Other Non-Federal external expenditures come primarily

from sources such as foreign governments and have been lower in the past three years.

On a per faculty member basis, external dollars per faculty FTE have been increasing

from under $50,000 per faculty FTE in 2005 to over $116,000 per faculty FTE in 2011. Funding

on the basis of faculty research FTE has also been increasing over the 2005 to 2011 time frame.

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Table V-3: Summary of Expenditures from External Support for Fiscal Years 2006 through 2011

Agricultural Economics

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Federal Sponsored

USDA 1,609,190 998,894 668,187 680,083 647,338 1,085,726 943,726

DOE 50,576 109,403 88,467 80,108 239,270 171,628 285,014

DOT 14,501 47,959

AID 391,926 478,022 323,543 339,449 445,324 731,860 783,771

NSF 80,187 0 0 5,146 71,311 169,664 247,228

EPA 201,721 130,829 125,891 157,704 268,908 198,372 42,892

ED 8,100 11,340 4,860 5,022 8,130 8,327

OTHER FEDERAL 8,100 74,634 39,511 46,599 29,807 124,044 110,513

Non-Federal Sponsored Programs

INDUSTRY/FOUNDATIONS 451,497 573,481 546,436 650,371 861,065 973,005 1,277,115

STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENT 278,619 344,813 307,921 801,679 958,818 823,797 681,919

PRF RESEARCH GRANTS/

PURDUE FELLOWSHIPS 131,389 86,271 131,807 98,008 146,158 157,913 181,193

OTHER NON-FEDERAL 249,405 22,671 27,668 47,092 3,994 0 0

FOREIGN GOVERNMENT 533,753 708,282 585,712 70,697 15,772 84,613

Gifts 116,026 336,949 355,641 397,812 264,754 291,137 349,089

Total 3,568,636 3,697,820 3,334,694 3,909,124 4,060,425 4,751,048 4,995,400

Faculty FTE 44.0 43.0 43.0 43.0 44.0 42.0 43.0

$/Faculty FTE 47,278 85,995 77,551 90,909 92,282 113,120 116,172

Faculty Research FTE 11.73 18.63 19.83 20.18 19.28 18.98 18.48

$/Faculty Research FTE 197,162 198,487 168,164 193,712 210,602 250,318 270,313

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Personnel

Table V-4 reports the allocation of faculty across functional areas in 2011 and 2005.

Additional detail is found in Appendix A that contains our list of faculty, administrative

and professional staff, emeritus faculty, and associated staff in the department. It

indicates the functional activities (research, teaching, and extension) for each faculty and

administrative professional staff member. As of April 2011 we have 41.3 FTE faculty

(Dennis has a split appointments). About 28 percent of the total effort is devoted to

teaching, approximately 27 percent is devoted to Extension, and 45 percent is devoted to

research. Individual faculty assignments by functional area are displayed in Appendix A.

There are 31.7 professional and administrative staff (Quagrainie has a split appointment)

in the department. Four Emeritus faculty have office space in the Krannert Building, and

four faculty in administrative positions are housed elsewhere in the School of

Agriculture. From 2005 to 2011 FTEs devoted to teaching have dropped by 2 faculty,

while FTEs devoted to Extension have dropped by 1 faculty.

Table V-4: Comparison Between 2011 and 2005 Faculty Functional Allocations

2011

Faculty Teaching Extension Research Total

FTE % FTE % FTE % FTE

Professors 8.30 29.6 8.50 30.4 11.20 40.0 28.0

Associate Professors 1.89 25.9 1.73 23.7 3.68 50.4 7.30

Assistant Professors 1.35 22.5 .95 15.8 3.70 61.7 6.0

Totals 11.54 27.9 11.18 27.1 18.58 45.0 41.3

2005

Faculty Teaching Extension Research Total

FTE % FTE % FTE % FTE

Professors 10.10 30.6 10.10 30.6 12.80 38.7 33.0

Associate Professors 1.60 32.0 .45 9.0 2.95 59.0 5.0

Assistant Professors 1.80 30.0 1.60 26.6 2.60 43.3 6.0

Totals 13.5 30.6 12.15 27.6 18.35 41.7 44.0

Table V-5: Faculty Changes since FY 2005

Teaching Extension Research Area

Retirements

E. Loehman X X Environment and resource

management, water pricing

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S. Lovejoy X X X Environmental policy and

decision making

R. Taylor X X Macroeconomics / farm

management

J. Connor X X Industrial organization,

price analysis, competition

Resignations

C. Arndt X X Poverty and policy

development

S. Chen X X X Health economics

M. Holt X X Agricultural econometrics

W. Masters X X Policy

S. Thompson X X X Marketing

L. Valentin X X Production economics /

farm management

C. Wilson X X Agribusiness management

and finance

Moved to

Administration

J. Akridge X X X Agribusiness management /

production economics

J.

Lowenberg-

DeBoer

X X X International Development/

Production Economics

New Faculty

L. Valentin X X Production economics /

farm management

W.S.

Downey

X X X Selling and sales mgmt

B. Gloy X X X Agribusiness mgmt

B. Gramig X X Environmental and natural

resources

N. Olynk X X Production economics /

farm management

J. Ricker-

Gilbert

X X Development economics

J. Sesmero X X Energy economics

N. Villoria X International trade

H. Wang X X Risk / derivative markets /

crop insurance

S. Wu X X Food and agricultural

business

B. Yeager* Agribusiness

*Starting 1/2012. Not included in faculty numbers elsewhere in document

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The staffing changes since the previous review in 2005 are displayed in Table V-

5. There have been four retirements, seven resignations, two have moved to the College

of Agriculture Administration, and ten new faculty hires, representing a net decrease of

2.7 faculty members since 2005. These changes can explicitly be explained as follows.

Thus Retirements (4) plus Resignations (7) plus Moved to Administration (2) equals a

decrease of 13 people. New hires = 10. The difference is a decrease of 3 people. Beth

Yeager is not included in any of these counts. In addition, Sam Cordes who held the

positions of Associate Vice Provost for Engagement, Director of the Center for Regional

Development and Purdue Extension Assistant Director andA. Economic and Community

Development Program Leader, retired August 31, 2011. His tenure home was the

Department of Agricultural Economics and thus represents another decrease of faculty.

Table V-6 reports national level awards and recognitions by members of the Department

of Agricultural Economics from 2006 through 2011. Over that time frame department

members have been associated with 11 AAEA awards, both as individuals and part of

teams. During that time two then faculty members (Connor and Holt) were awarded the

honor of AAEA Fellow. Connor has since retired and Holt resigned leaving Mike Boehlje

and Tom Hertel as the two department members who are AAEA fellows.

Table V-6: Key Awards and Recognitions by Members of the Department of

Agricultural Economics since 2005

Year Award Organization Recipient

2006 Outstanding Extension

Website Award

Agricultural and Applied

Economics Association

(AAEA) Extension Section

AICC/New Ventures

for InVenture

2007

Distinguished

Individual Extension,

Less than 10 Years



(AAEA)

Allan Gray

2007 Quality of

Communication



(AAEA)

Tom Hertel

2007 Best Article in AJARE

Australian Journal of

Agricultural and Resource

Economics (AJARE)

Joe Balagtas

2007 Friend of Conservation National Association of

Conservation Districts Janet Ayres

2008

Distinguished

Extension Program,

More than 10 Years



(AAEA)

Michael Boehlje

2008 Friend of Conservation National Association of

Conservation Districts Janet Ayres

2008 Distinguished Service

to Ag Award

American Society of Farm

Managers and Rural

Appraisers

Michael Boehlje

2009 Distinguished Graduate

Teaching, More than 10


Economics Association Ken Foster

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Years (AAEA)

2009 Fellow of the AAEA



(AAEA)

John Connor

2009 Fellow of the AAEA



(AAEA)

Matt Holt

2009

Distinguished

Extension Outreach

Group Award



(AAEA)

AICC/New Ventures

Team

2009 Quality of

Communication



(AAEA)

Wally Tyner, Chris

Hurt, Phil Abbott

2009 Early Career Award American Aquaculture Society Kwamena

Quagrainie

2009 Outstanding Visiting

Economist from USDA USDA Otto Doering

2010

Distinguished


Less than 10 Years



(AAEA)

Maria Marshall

2010 Outstanding Journal

Article

American Society of Farm

Managers and Rural

Appraisers

Freddie Barnard

2011

Distinguished


Less than 10 Years



(AAEA)

Corinne Alexander

2011 Distinguished Teaching

Less than 10 Years



(AAEA)

W. Scott Downey

2011

Distinguished

Undergraduate

Teaching More than 10

Years



(AAEA)

Frank Dooley

Facilities and Support Staff

The department shares space in the Krannert and Rawls Buildings with the School

of Management. We occupy the 6th

floor and parts of floors 7, 5 and 3 in the Krannert

Building, and we are allocated one classroom in the Rawls Building. We also share

library resources with the School of Management.

All faculty and staff, including graduate assistants, have microcomputers that are

connected by a network. All computers have access to electronic mail, word processing,

spreadsheet, data base, statistics packages (SAS, Stata, Gauss, R, Eviews, and Shazam

are available), mathematical programming packages (GAMS, Mathematica, Maple, and

Matlab are available), and other software. Printing is primarily to multifunctional

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printer/copy/scanner machines located in three points within the department, but there are

also color laser printers and color Inkjet printers distributed throughout the department.

The department network is connected to the campus backbone which is linked to the

outside world via the Internet.

We have three full time support staff (Wood, Cook, Greiner) plus several

undergraduate student assistants in the computer area. In addition, Liza Braunlich

provides computer support for the M.S./M.B.A. program and CAB programs. Clerical

support staff have been reduced via attrition from 13 in 2004-05, to 6 in 2010, a reduction

of 57 percent. Clerical staff assignments are displayed in Table V-7.

Table V-7: Agricultural Economics Clerical and AP Service Staff

2011 Clerical, AP, and Business Service Support Staff Assignments

CLERICAL STAFF ASSIGNMENTS

Flack, Angie Barnard, Binkley, DeBoer, Dobbins land value survey,

Eales, Fulton, Harrison, Quagrainie, Rodriquez, Shively

(Department Events Coordinator)

Klotz, Linda Abbott, Baker, Balagtas, Doering, Gramig, Hertel, Hurt,

Paarlberg, Hertel, Sesmero, Villoria, Walmsley

Pearl, Brenda Baugh, Boehlje, Dennis, Foster, Patrick, Preckel, Tyner,

Weber

(Awards, Hatch, Publications)

Pritchard, Marsha Alexander, Florax, Keeney, Marshall, Waldorf

Query, Michelle Center for Agricultural Business: Downey, Gray, Sauer,

Wu

New Staff Ayres, A. Gloy, B. Gloy, Lee, McNamara, Miller, Olynk,

Ricker-Gilbert, Sanders, Wang

AP AND BUSINESS OFFICE SUPPORT STAFF ASSIGNMENTS

Bower, Vicki Business Office

Hufford, Jill Business Office

Kennedy, Neisha Business Office

Pava, Penny, AP Undergrad: Dobbins, Dooley, Oppy, Williams

(Course Schedule Deputy)

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VI. STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

During the 2010-2011 academic year the Department of Agricultural Economics

worked through a strategic planning process. Each group began by considering current

trends and driving forces that are affecting their area. Next each group identified the

programming needs that result from these driving forces. The current resources and

programming currently in place were then identified by each group. Next, new needs for

programming, and then new needs for resources were identified. All of the Land Grant

mission areas of teaching research and Extension were all considered.

A series of brown bag sessions were then held to involve all of the department in

the process. The structure of the sessions involved the “leader” of each group starting off

by presenting an overview of that group’s discussion. General discussion then followed.

After seven sessions, each devoted to one of the subject areas, were held one general

session was held where the discussion focused on the department as a whole.

Commonalities across areas were identified and questions and issues as we move forward

were raised.

It quickly became apparent that each group identified exciting and worthy

opportunities for programming in all mission areas. The logical next conclusion for each

group was identifying the need for new resources. Requests for new faculty positions

were a common theme. Recognizing that the current economic environment for the state

and university will allow for very limited new economic resources it was deemed

important to explore other areas of opportunity. In particular, we explored the idea of

where we could take advantage of synergies via collaborations within the department,

with others at Purdue and with others beyond Purdue. In this discussion the importance of

us as applied economists being part of the discussion from the very beginning was

emphasized. In that vein we noted that we needed to be sure and be part of the planning

and discussion from the very beginning and not brought in just before the grant proposal

was to be submitted so that the other group could show that they had an economic

component.

There were seven groups involved in this process as follows: Agribusiness,

Production/Farm Management, Small Business/Community Development, Urban/Rural,

Prices and Markets, and International, Environmental/Energy. The membership of the

groups was initially established as follows, with the * denoting the chairperson of the

group. In spite of the fact that the initial teams were set up with some faculty members

actively participating in more than one group.

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Table VI-1: Initial Membership of Strategic Planning Working Groups

Area Members

Agribusiness Corinne Alexander*, Michael Boehlje, Frank Dooley, Scott Downey,

Ken Foster, Allan Gray

Prices and

Markets

Joe Balagtas*, Jim Binkley, John Connor, Jim Eales, Chris Hurt,

Steve Wu

Production/

Farm

Management

Brent Gloy*, Tim Baker, Freddie Barnard, Craig Dobbins, Bruce

Erickson, Gerry Harrison, Roman Keeney, Alan Miller, Nicole

Olynk, George Patrick

Environmental/

Energy/

Resources

John Lee*, Otto Doering, Ben Gramig, Paul Preckel, Juan Sesmero,

Wally Tyner,

International Holly Wang*, Phil Abbott, Tom Hertel, Phil Paarlberg , John

Sanders, Jerry Shively, Nelson Villoria, Terrie Walmsley

Small Business/

Community

Development

Maria Marshall*, Janet Ayres, Jennifer Dennis, Joan Fulton, Angela

Gloy, Kwamena Quagrainie

Regional/Urban

and Spatial

Raymond Florax*, Larry DeBoer, Kevin McNamara, Brigitte

Waldorf

*Indicates the chairperson of the group

As noted above, identification of the driving forces was the first step that each

group engaged in. Table VI-2 illustrates that there are many common driving forces

across subject area groups. All but two of the driving forces were identified as important

for three or more of the groups. The interaction between agriculture, resources and the

energy was identified as an important driving force for all of the working groups. The

driving forces of volatility of markets and changing government policy were also seen as

key across many areas of the department. This commonality is important as a base for

exploring additional areas of collaboration.

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Table VI-2: Driving Forces Affecting the Department of Agricultural Economics identified by the Working Groups

Agribusiness Prices and

Markets

Farm

Management/

Production

Energy,

Environmental

and Resource

Economics

International Small

Business/

Community

Development

Regional/

Urban and

Spatial

Changing

Demographics

Economic

Restructuring

Food and

Health

Technological

Changes

Increasing

Volatility of

Markets

Rapid

Development

of Large

Economies

Changing

Government

Policy

Resource

Limits and

Degradation

Interaction

between Ag

and Resource

and Energy

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The following provides additional explanation of what the working groups considered as

important for each of the driving forces.

Changing demographics: This is a multi-faceted issue involving an aging population that

is now more mobile than in the past. The resulting change in lifestyle of people has

resulted in implications for human capital and demand for goods and services. With this

changing population there are associated shifts in values. One of the specific areas we see

a change is the increasing importance of the “life-style” farming unit.

Economic restructuring: We continue to see consolidation of companies. There is a real

need for businesses to be resilient to economic changes and revitalize and reposition

themselves. This represents important opportunities for our department to gain further

insight via research and for our teaching and Extension programs. Our small business

clientele find this to be a very important factor.

Food and Health: This is a broad area with many opportunities for us to engage in

important work. Specific issues that were noted are food safety, the social and economic

implications of nutrition and food, food security and the relationship between food and

health.

Technological Changes: Technological changes are occurring on many fronts including

changes in farm production technology, as well as changes in information and

communication technology. With increased complexity, that often follows from

technological changes there is an increase need for human capital development and thus

for education, with particular emphasis on Extension programming.

Increasing Volatility of Markets: Given that markets and prices have been more and more

volatile on all fronts, both locally and globally, it is not surprising that this force was one

of the most frequently identified force amongst the groups.

Rapid Development of Large Economies (BRIC): The economies of Brazil, India and

China are developing and changing rapidly increasing education and training needs from

people from these countries as well as for industries that work in these countries.

Changing Government Policy: Changing government policy is having important

implications for research and education in the farm management/production and energy,

environment and resource economics areas.

Resource Limits and Degradation: Resources are limited both with respect to quantity

and quality. Water was specifically noted as a key resource that will become increasingly

important in the future.

Interaction between Agriculture and Resources and the Environment: Important emerging

areas that involve the interface between agriculture and resources and the environment

include: climate change, biofuels, water and input markets.

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Potential Areas of Collaboration

One of the results of the self-assessment by each of the groups, and the

subsequent department wide discussion that ensued was that there is great work going on

in all of the areas across the three functions of a land grant university of teaching research

and Extension. All groups identified that with increased resources they could do even

more great work. Department members noted that it will be important to continue to

make the best case possible for new faculty positions whenever they come available,

being sure to note that as a department we have experienced a decline in faculty over the

past five years. It was also noted that the reality of the current economic environment is

that new faculty resources will be scarce and it is important to explore other ways to grow

our programming. In particular we explored possible areas of collaboration as a way of

future growth.

Two strengths of the Department were highlighted as key to making us attractive

for collaborations. First, the agricultural economics profession and our Department in

particular have extensive experience and thus expertise in solving real world problems.

Second, members of our Department have been involved in multidisciplinary projects for

some time. Once again, this experience results in expertise in working as part of a

multidisciplinary group successfully.

After good discussion the following topic areas and departments were identified

as ones having excellent potential for the Department to play an active and effective

collaboration role:

- Climate Change

- Environment and Energy

- Departments of Animal Science, Agronomy, Ag and Biological Engineering and

Food Science

- Purdue’s Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI)

- Center for Global Food Security

- School of Veterinary Medicine

- The international CGIAR centers

- Various government agencies

There was also good discussion to identify the areas to monitor and the important

questions to ask so that we can remain ready to be vital collaborators and meet the

changing needs of higher education. The following were noted with respect to

Purdue University:

- How the College of Agriculture Strategic Themes affect our Department as they

move from words on paper to ideas in action.

- How the recommendations from Purdue’s Decadal Funding Plan affect our

Department

- How will the establishment of an Honors College at the University level affect

our undergraduate teaching program. Will this take away the “best and brightest”

undergraduate students from our department affecting the quality of the education

experience for the rest of our students?

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- How will the establishment of a Core Curriculum for Purdue University (which is

expected to be in place for students starting at Purdue in Fall 2013) affect our

undergraduate teaching program? Preliminary reports suggest that the

requirements of a university wide core curriculum will not significantly affect our

students’ degree requirements. It is important for the Department to consider

whether we want to be offering courses that are part of the core as a way to attract

students into our courses.

The following were noted as broader issues that extend beyond just Purdue and affect

higher education in Indiana and beyond:

- The state support for higher education, and in particular for the major research

universities, has been declining in real terms over time. The Indiana Commission

for Higher Education is an important institution in this process. Recently greater

attention has been given to the Ivy Tech Community College system as they have

identified a need for training for many Indiana citizens. The focus has been on the

fastest route possible to increase the number of Hoosiers with a college degree,

with much less emphasis on quality of education.

- It was noted that while the Department has important experience and expertise in

multidisciplinary work that there are implications for the core areas that we work

in. If faculty are drawn to multidisciplinary work their time is not available for

work that was previously done in the core areas that are traditionally agricultural

economics.

- It was noted that the trend to increased us of grant funding will most likely

continue and that will influence the mix of programming. In particular, projects

and programs with a public good focus generally need to be funded from base

funding. Much of our Extension and teaching, and some of our research could

only happen with base funding.

Two areas related to our teaching program were identified:

- The way that people learn is changing. This is related to age as well as changing

technology. Are we being proactive enough in the way that we develop and

deliver our courses to meet these changing needs?

- How should we address the challenge associated with having enough students

registered in a class for the call to be offered at the graduate level?

- How should we be adapting the manner in which we recruit and select graduate

students given that we have a multi-attribute objective function when we are

recruiting our students? We want top quality students, while also having students

that complement the work that our faculty are involved in.

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VII: UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

Introduction

Our undergraduate program is healthy and employers seek our graduates for employment.

Students from the department are widely recognized for their campus leadership roles. The

department enjoys a national reputation for teaching excellence and innovation. This has been

achieved, in part, by the commitment of a dedicated faculty and staff for many years. Our

current programs build on faculty expertise in agribusiness management, farm management, and

applied economics.

This section first identifies four general issues that the department faces with respect to our

undergraduate program. The rest of this section highlights the nature of our students and

degrees.

At this point, the department has few specific curricular issues to face as most were dealt with as

part of an extensive college wide curriculum review over the past two years. The ―Can Less Be

More?‖ initiative considered the composition of the majors offered across the College of

Agriculture. The college eliminated 15 of its 45 majors effective for Fall 2012, while adding 2

majors in Agricultural and Biological Engineering. The Department of Agricultural Economics

moved from 7 to 4 majors, while creating 8 concentrations.

Most of the Purdue data are from the Purdue Office of Institutional Research, although some is

internal departmental data.1 Some comparisons are drawn to eight peer Land Grant Universities.

Student enrollment data for BS students in Agricultural Business and Management for the years

2004 to 2010 are pulled from the USDA’s Food and Agricultural Education Information System

or FAEIS.2 The institutions are Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania

State University, Texas A&M University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

University of Minnesota, St. Paul, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of

Wisconsin-Madison.

Issues for Ag Econ Undergraduate Programs

Going forward, the department faces four key issues with respect to its undergraduate programs.

Some of the issues require strategic decisions by the department. Others point to the need for

additional resources from the College or University level. The four issues are: 1) growth in

enrollment; 2) serving nontraditional students (i.e., from other than a rural background); 3)

curricular design for transfer students; and 4) departmental faculty focus on undergraduate

education. The four issues are certainly interrelated, but discussion is provided for each to

highlight unique aspects of the particular issue.

1. Growth in Enrollment

The Department of Agricultural Economics (AGEC) has seen a sharp increase in the number of

students since 2004. For example:

1www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.html

2www.faeis.ahnrit.vt.edu/

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The fall undergraduate enrollment has climbed 43.3%, from 321 in 2004 to 460 students

in 2010 (Figure VII-1). Over the same time period, enrollment grew 7.5% at the peer

institutions and 9.8% in the rest of the College of Agriculture.

Around 120 students are majors in business-type degrees found in other departments in

the College of Agriculture (Figure VII-2). These students typically take 20 credits from

AGEC, although the number of credits from AGEC will increase as a result of the

curriculum review.

The number of BS degrees conferred has risen by 55 percent, from around 85 per year for

the eight year period from 2001-02 to 2008-09 an average of 132 during the past two

academic years (Figure VII-3). The number of BS degrees conferred at peer institutions

rose by 3.2% from 2004 to last year.

The undergraduate credit hours generated in the fall of 2011 was 41.5 percent higher than

in the fall of 2004 (Figure VII-4). The number of credit hours generated in the rest of the

College of Agriculture grew by 9.9 percent over the same time period.

In 2004-05, the Department offered 55 sections of 37 different courses to 4,826

undergraduates. In 2010-11, 5,382 undergraduates were enrolled in 61 sections of 39

classes (Table VII-1).

Enrollment declined by 587 students in the two largest historical service courses offered

by the department (AGEC 217 and 331). In 2004-05, these two courses accounted for

55% of all AGEC course enrollment compared to 38% in 2010-11. Enrollment in AGEC

217 fell from 1,884 to 1,443, while enrollment in AGEC 331 fell from 769 to 623 from

2004-05 to 2010-11, respectively. One possible explanation is that the University

adopted a new course registration system in the Fall of 2008, which allowed students

freedom to choose their schedules.

In 34 other AGEC courses, enrollment grew by 1,187 students from 2004-05 to 2010-11.

The number of students in these 34 courses grew by an average of 57% per course. Many

courses are at room capacity, although they have already moved to larger sized rooms.

From 2004-05 to 2010-11, the number of faculty teaching undergraduates rose from 25 to

29 members of the department, with the number teaching only one undergraduate course

increasing from 14 to 18.

In 2004-05, 6 professional staff and graduate students taught courses. In 2010-11, that

number rose to 10.

To this point, the Department has continued to offer an excellent education to BS students.

However, the sustained growth presents the following challenges.

1. Larger class sizes make it more difficult to include higher level learning and written

assignments.

2. The enrollment increase has led to a corresponding increase in demand for student

services such as advising, graduation audits, letters of recommendation, placement, etc.

While there is a faculty advising model in place, most students also rely on the services

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of the undergraduate bay, looking for advice from Ms. LeeAnn Williams or Mr. Andy

Oppy.

3. Our students see more of our faculty in the classroom. However, this has also meant that

undergraduate education is drawing from resources once dedicated to extension and/or

research.

2. Serving Nontraditional Students

Our student body in 2011 is much more diverse than a decade ago. For example:

While data are not readily available, we estimate at least 30% of our students have no

background in agriculture, coming from metropolitan areas such as Indianapolis,

Chicago, or Fort Wayne.

The proportion of women students has increased from 28% to 36% from 2004 to 2011

(Table VII-2). There has been no change in the proportion of women at peer institutions.

The proportion of minority students has not changed since 2004, staying around 5%

(Table VII-4). At peer institutions, the proportion of minority students has risen from

8.4% to 11.0%.

The proportion of international students has increased from 4.4% to 8.2% from 2004 to

2011 (Table VII-5). At peer institutions, the proportion of minority students has risen

from 0.8% to 1.8%.

The USDA3 anticipates annual demand for 25,700 employees in agribusiness

management. However, the Land Grant and affiliated systems will only confer around

12,100 degrees per year. Thus, employers are looking for 46% of their new hires from

other sources.

Students from the Department have established two new official student organizations,

the China Agribusiness Club, and Getting Back to Agriculture (an organization to inform

urban students about the fundamentals of agriculture).

The change in the composition of our students presents the following challenges.

1. The dynamics of the classroom change somewhat as a larger proportion of the students

have a limited understanding about production agriculture. At the same time, the

Department can help industry by educating non-traditional students. However, many of

our professors are from a farm background, and as a result, examples in many of our

courses draw from production agriculture.

2. More of our students are seeking our agribusiness majors (Table VII-6). Like many

departments, it is sometimes a challenge to find agribusiness professors to teach these

courses.

3 Goecker, A.D., P.G. Smith, E. Smith, and R. Goetz. 2010. ―Employment Opportunities for

College Graduates in Food, Renewable Energy, and the Environment, United States, 2010-

2015.‖ USDA, NIFA, www.ag.purdue.edu/USDA/employment/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.ag.purdue.edu/USDA/employment/Pages/default.aspx

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3. Despite the USDA report, some employers are ill-prepared to deal with non-traditional

students. I.e., they show a clear preference for traditional students, especially for

internships and scholarships.

4. Some non-traditional students are being hired by employers new to the department.

While this broadens the opportunities for all students, it takes time to establish relations

with employers new to the department’s students.

5. The advising needs for an international student are more extensive than domestic

students.

3. Curricular Design for Transfer Students

The Department of Agricultural Economics and the College of Agriculture have long prided

themselves on using their best professors in freshman and sophomore level courses.

Only around half of each graduating class started as freshman in the department.

The other half of the students either are CODO (change of degree option) from other

majors at Purdue, or transfers. Representatives from the department have met with

advisors from other programs such as pre-pharmacy, management, and university studies,

and show how CODO students from those programs can graduate on time from Ag Econ.

Some of the enrollment growth can be attributed to the 2+2 degree between China

Agricultural University and the College of Agriculture. The number of students from

China has risen from 9 to 23 in the past 4 years. Chinese students account for 61% of the

international students in the department.

The new Pathways Program, an articulation program between Purdue and Ivy Tech

(Indiana’s community college system), may lead to future growth.

This presents two challenges:

1. Many of the Chinese transfer students want to enroll in the undergraduate honors

research program. However, the guidelines require a Purdue academic record for

admission. As transfer students, it is too late for them to complete the honors thesis.

2. Transfer programs create a tension by avoiding use of our traditional strong curriculum

for freshman and sophomores. In addition, to providing a strong academic base, our

advising model does an excellent job of getting new freshman students involved in

student organizations on campus, participating in community service, etc. It is unclear

how to establish a similar linkage for transfer students.

4. Faculty Focus on Undergraduate Education

Fifteen years ago, most students would have had at least two courses each from Drs. Larry Bohl,

Steve Erickson, Dave Downey, Bob Taylor, and Joe Uhl. These five individuals provided most

of the academic advising, and also oversaw student clubs, quiz bowl, and honors. One result is

the students established a deep relationship with our department, and these individuals in

particular.

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Today, only a handful of students will see any AGEC professor more than once in the classroom.

Our course evaluations continue to be very strong for most courses. The Department now

employs two professional academic advisors (who also are involved with student organizations,

teaching recruitment, placement, college level committee work, etc.) For most students, Ms.

Williams and Mr. Oppy are the face of the department.

Growing student numbers have resulted in larger class sizes and additional sections of courses.

Additional sections have been covered by asking additional faculty to teach undergraduates. In

some cases this has means faculty have been asked to teach classes that are not in their areas of

expertise. While efforts are made to coordinate the different sections of the same class, having

different instructors sometimes means that the same class has a different emphasis.

While students are exposed to a broad cross section of the facility in the department, this

approach does not encourage faculty to focus on the strategic issues or develop a depth of

understanding about issues associated with undergraduate education. The Department will be

facing two issues in the next year – the creation of a University level Honors College and the

establishment of a university core curriculum.

Our department culture has shifted from a small cadre of professors focused on our

undergraduate program to one that disperses these responsibilities among many. While our

students gain from exposure to more of our faculty, it may be that students are the top priority for

only one or two of our faculty. The challenge facing our department is while the curriculum is

still under faculty control, the responsibilities for its oversight is increasingly concentrated to one

or two individuals.

Nature of AGEC Students

Enrollment in Ag Econ’s undergraduate student body and the College of Agriculture has steadily

risen since 2004-05. From a base of 321 students, undergraduate enrollment numbers reached

474 in 2009-10 (Figure VII-1).4 As a percent of the College, Ag Econ’s proportion of

undergraduate students has risen from 14 percent of the student population to over 17 percent.

The growth in enrollment stems from four factors.

First, the continued strong agricultural economy has increased income for farm families, making

college more affordable and also is attracting nontraditional students as other parts of the

economy continue to struggle. Second, the job placement rate for Ag Econ students is still very

strong relative to the harsh job markets faced by most students. The typical placement rate for

May graduates since 2009 is 91% which is down compared to 97% in earlier years (Table VII-5).

Starting salaries were $42,600 in 2011, ranging from $25,000 to $65,000.

Third, the department has a national reputation for teaching excellence, course innovation, and

exceptional advising. Two faculty members earned national recognition from the AAEA for

outstanding teaching in 2011. All three administrative professionals in the undergraduate office

have received awards for their work with students. Students and their families establish strong

ties to the department, which in turn builds the department’s reputation.

4Note that enrollment statistics omit around 40 students declaring AGEC as a second major.

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Fourth, in the past decade, the number of international undergraduate students has quadrupled,

growing to 38 students or 8 percent of the undergraduate population in Ag Econ (Table VII-4).

The department has had students from Austria, Australia, China, Ecuador, France, Germany,

Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Malaysia, Netherlands, Pakistan,

Republic of Korea, Sweden, Spain, and Turkey in the past four years.

Enrollment in AGEC courses is also influenced by four other business-like programs in the

College – Agronomic Business and Marketing (AGRY), Animal Agribusiness (ANSC), Food

Manufacturing Operations (FS), and Horticulture Production and Marketing (HLA). Combined

enrollment in these programs in 2011 is 118 students, which has fallen from a high of 147 in

2008 (Figure VII-2). All four of these curricula increased the number of credits from AGEC as

part of the ―Can Less Be More‖ curricular revision.

Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics Majors with Concentrations

Beginning in 2012, the department will offer four majors: Agribusiness, Agricultural

Economics, Farm Management and Sales and Marketing. Agribusiness has five concentrations

while Agricultural Economics has three concentrations. This section provides:

1. A breakdown of student numbers by area.

2. The general composition of the Agribusiness (AG BUS) major (total credit hours, and

credit hours in agricultural economics, agribusiness, and in the concentration).

3. The general composition of the Agricultural Economics (AG ECON) major (total

credit hours, and credit hours in agricultural economics and in the concentration).

4. Composition of the Farm Management and Sales and Marketing Major.

All majors in the College of Agriculture must meet a 60 hour core. This includes 1 credit of

orientation, 28 hours of math and science (including 8 hours of biology, 6 hours of chemistry,

calculus, and statistics), 13 hours of communication, and 18 hours of humanities and social

sciences. A handful of AGEC courses can be used to fulfill social science requirements. In

addition, two courses meet the requirements as math/science electives. The college core also

requires course work in international understanding, multicultural awareness, and a capstone.

Number of Students by Major

Increasingly, the students are opting for agribusiness as a major. In 2002, 49% of the students

were in agribusiness, 42% were in agricultural economics, and 9% were in farm management

(Table VII-6). In 2011, the distribution is 59% in agribusiness, 37% in agricultural economics,

and 3% in farm management.

The growth in Agribusiness is understandable given the department’s strong reputation for

agribusiness. In addition, a strong job market for agribusiness jobs has led to additional

enrollment growth. The Agricultural Economics major is especially popular among transfer and

CODO students because of its flexibility that arises from 29 free electives and in the applied

economics concentration. The department continues to attract Farm Management students;

increasingly they too are opting for a major in Agribusiness.

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Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics Majors

The Agribusiness (AG BUS) major has 47 hours of area requirements, with 12 hours of

economics core requirements, 14 hours of agribusiness core requirements, and 21 hours in the

concentration area (Table VII-7). The Agricultural Economics (AG ECON) major has 40 hours

of area requirements, including a 19 hours of a common core, with 21 hours of concentration

courses (Table VII-8). The total credit hours for the proposals are similar to current hours in

related majors.

Agribusiness Concentrations

An agribusiness concentration is defined as 21 hours, which can include specified courses, FAB

selectives (see footnote 7 in Table VII-9), or an AGEC selective (which is any other course from

Ag Econ). A student can complete multiple concentrations, but only one course can be shared

between two concentrations. All students in the Agribusiness major must select a concentration

from: Agrimarketing, Agrifinance, Agribusiness Management, Food Marketing, or Commodity

Marketing. Courses for the concentrations are found in Table VII-9.

Ag Econ Concentrations

A concentration in the Ag Econ major is defined as 21 hours, which can include specified

courses or an AGEC selective which is any other Ag Econ course. A student can complete

multiple concentrations, but only one course can be shared between two concentrations. All

students in the Agricultural Economics major must select a concentration from Commodity

Marketing, Quantitative Analysis, or Agricultural Economics. The Commodity Marketing

concentration is identical to the concentration for Agribusiness. Courses for the concentrations

are found in Table VII-10.

Farm Management

The Farm Management major shares a 60 hour College core with all four majors in the

department, as well as a 17 hour departmental core (Table VII-7). The Department continues to

offer a strong set of courses in farm management. Most of the teaching faculty in Farm

Management also have an Extension appointment.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing is similar in composition to the Agribusiness set of majors (Table VII-7).

The Department chose to retain the major because it tends to attract prospective students from

outside of agriculture.

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Figure VII-1. AGEC, College of Ag, and Peer Institution Undergraduate Enrollment

Sources: Purdue Office of Institutional Research, www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.html and

USDA FAEIS, www.faeis.ahnrit.vt.edu/

http://www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.html

http://www.faeis.ahnrit.vt.edu/

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Figure VII-2. Majors by Businesslike Degree Programs in the College of Ag, Fall 2002 to Fall

2011

Source: Purdue Office of Institutional Research, www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.html


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Figure VII-3. Number of BS Degrees Conferred at Purdue & Peer Institutions, by Year, 2001-02

to 2010-11






Figure VII-4. AGEC and College of Ag Credit Hours, Fall 2002 to Fall 2011

Source: Purdue Office of Institutional Research www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.html



Table VII-1. Comparison of Course Enrollment in AGEC Courses, 2004-05 to 2010-11

AGEC

Sections Offered Enrollment Average Section

Size

04-

05

10-

11 Change 04-05 10-11 Change

%

Change 04-06 09-11

181 1 1 0 62 71 9 15% 62.0 71.0

202 3 4 1 106 121 15 14% 35.3 30.3

203 2 2 0 120 334 214 178% 60.0 167.0

204 0 1 1 0 35 35 na na 35.0

217 8 9 1 1,884 1,443 -441 -23% 235.5 160.3

220 2 2 0 185 188 3 2% 92.5 94.0

250 1 2 1 132 201 69 52% 132.0 100.5

298 2 2 0 86 115 29 34% 43.0 57.5

305 1 1 0 41 44 3 7% 41.0 44.0

310 2 2 0 127 153 26 20% 63.5 76.5

311 1 1 0 71 79 8 11% 71.0 79.0

321 1 1 0 87 114 27 31% 87.0 114.0

330 2 2 0 137 229 92 67% 68.5 114.5

331 2 2 0 769 623 -146 -19% 384.5 311.5

333 1 1 0 27 35 8 30% 27.0 35.0

340 1 1 0 86 154 68 79% 86.0 154.0

352 1 2 1 64 165 101 158% 64.0 82.5

375 1 1 0 9 11 2 22% 9.0 11.0

406 2 1 -1 124 126 2 2% 62.0 126.0

410 1 1 0 38 43 5 13% 38.0 43.0

411 1 1 0 35 42 7 20% 35.0 42.0

412 1 1 0 4 14 10 250% 4.0 14.0

CSR415 0 1 1 0 86 86 na na 86.0

420 1 1 0 77 98 21 27% 77.0 98.0

421 1 1 0 29 44 15 52% 29.0 44.0

422 1 1 0 26 37 11 42% 26.0 37.0

424 1 2 1 59 150 91 154% 59.0 75.0

425 1 1 0 58 90 32 55% 58.0 90.0

426 2 2 0 80 134 54 68% 40.0 67.0

427 1 1 0 10 5 -5 -50% 10.0 5.0

429 1 1 0 7 9 2 29% 7.0 9.0

430 1 2 1 50 110 60 120% 50.0 55.0

431 2 1 -1 53 17 -36 -68% 26.5 17.0

435 1 1 0 21 18 -3 -14% 21.0 18.0

440 1 1 0 25 39 14 56% 25.0 39.0

450 1 1 0 38 60 22 58% 38.0 60.0

451 1 1 0 22 38 16 73% 22.0 38.0

455 1 1 0 17 32 15 88% 17.0 32.0


AGEC

Sections Offered Enrollment Average Section

Size

04-

05

10-

11 Change 04-05 10-11 Change

%

Change 04-06 09-11

456 1 1 0 60 75 15 25% 60.0 75.0

Total 55 61 6 4,826 5,382 556 12% 87.7 88.2

Table VII-2. BS Women Students in Purdue Ag Econ and Peer Institutions, Fall 2001 to Fall

2011

Purdue Agricultural Economics Peer Institution Agricultural Economics

Total Students Women %Women Total Students Women %Women

2001 336 95 28.3%

2002 337 91 27.0%

2003 327 97 29.7%

2004 321 90 28.0% 1924 520 29.0%

2005 324 105 32.4% 1907 528 29.0%

2006 385 109 28.3% 1855 535 28.7%

2007 393 127 32.3% 1887 522 28.5%

2008 440 154 35.0% 2077 617 30.6%

2009 474 173 36.5% 2026 617 31.6%

2010 460 167 36.3% 2069 601 30.4%

2011 462 168 36.4%



Table VII-3. BS Minority Students in Purdue Ag Econ and Peer Institutions, Fall 2001 to Fall

2011


Total Students Minority %Minority Total Students Minority %Minority

2001 336 9 2.7%

2002 337 12 3.7%

2003 327 13 4.1%

2004 321 15 4.9% 1924 141 8.4%

2005 324 17 5.5% 1907 157 8.6%

2006 385 18 4.9% 1855 164 9.0%

2007 393 12 3.2% 1887 146 7.9%

2008 440 16 3.8% 2077 227 11.2%

2009 474 18 4.1% 2026 209 10.6%

2010 460 20 4.7% 2069 205 11.0%

2011 462 22 5.2%








Table VII-4. BS International Students in Purdue Ag Econ and Peer Institutions, Fall 2001 to

Fall 2011


Total Students International %Intl Total Students International %Intl

2001 336 7 2.1%

2002 337 14 4.2%

2003 327 11 3.4%

2004 321 14 4.4% 1924 13 0.8%

2005 324 14 4.3% 1907 16 0.9%

2006 385 15 3.9% 1855 15 0.8%

2007 393 14 3.6% 1887 19 1.0%

2008 440 23 5.2% 2077 29 1.4%

2009 474 31 6.5% 2026 34 1.7%

2010 460 32 7.0% 2069 35 1.8%

2011 462 38 8.2%



Table VII-5. Placement Rates and Salary for May Graduates, 2006 to 2011

Year Placement Rate (%) Average Salary ($) Salary Range ($)

2011 94% 42,644 24,960-65,000

2010 91% 39,580 25,000-70,000

2009 88% 43,441 26,000-75,000

2008 97% 39,400 29,650-73,000

2007 100% 39,931 24,000-65,000

2006 97% 36,000 Na

Source: College of Agriculture Annual Salary Survey


Table VII-6. Fall Enrollment in Undergraduate Majors, by Year

Year

Major 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

ABM 99 92 98 106 137 141 159 178 179 179

Ag Finance 14 10 11 12 13 20 16 14 20 18

FIMM 19 15 14 8 9 5 11 12 11 14

Sales 32 34 40 37 53 56 53 76 60 62

Agribus Total 164 151 163 163 212 222 239 280 270 273

Farm Mngt 31 36 27 31 30 32 37 25 19 14

Ag Econ 141 138 129 127 141 137 161 166 166 172

Quant 1 2 2 3 2 2 3 3 5 3

Total 337 327 321 324 385 393 440 474 460 462

Source: Source: Purdue Data Digest, www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.htm

http://www.purdue.edu/oir/resources.htm


Table VII-7. General Composition of Majors Offered by the Purdue Department of Agricultural

Economics

Area Agribusiness Agricultural

Economics

Farm

Management

Sales and

Marketing

COLLEGE CORE

Orientation 1 1 1 1

Biology 8 8 8 8

Chemistry 6 6 6 6

Calculus 3 3 3 3

Statistics 3 3 3 3

AGEC quant 3 3 3 3

Other Math Science 5 5 5 5

College Math Science Core 28 28 28 28

College Communication 13 13 13 16

College Social

Science/Humanities

18 18 18 18

College TOTAL 60 60 60 63

DEPARTMENTAL CORE

AGEC 202 1 1 1 1

AGEC 203 3 3 3 3

AGEC 217 3 3 3 3

AGEC 220 3 3 3 3

AGEC 298 1 1 1 1

Economics electives 3 6 6 3

AGEC CORE1 27 20 17 14

CONCENTRATION 21 21

FARM MANAGEMENT2 35

SALES AND MARKETING3 38

FREE ELECTIVES 22 29 18 15

TOTAL 130 130 130 130 1Plus AGEC 327, 330, 424, and MGMT 200 for Agribusiness and MGMT 200 for Agricultural

Economics 2AGEC 310, 321, 411, 424, accounting, 3 hours of AGEC selectives, and 15 hours of production

agriculture. 3AGEC 327, 330, 331, 424, 427, 430, 431, MGMT 200, MGMT 255 and 9 hours of specialty

area.


Table VII-8. Agribusiness and Ag Econ Hours, by Economics, Agribusiness, and Concentration

Course Number/Title AG BUS

major Credits

AG

ECON

major

credits

AGEC 2031 (Introductory Microeconomics for Food &

Agribusiness)

3 3

AGEC 2172 (Economics) 3 3

AGEC 220 (Economics of Agricultural Markets) 3 3

Econ el3 3 6

Economics Core Subtotal Credits 12 15

AGEC 202 (Spreadsheet Use in Agricultural Business) 1 1

AGEC 3274 (Principles of Food and Agribusiness Marketing) 3

AGEC 3305 (Management Methods for Agricultural Business)

3

AGEC 4246 (Financial Management of Agricultural Business) 4

MGMT 200 (Introductory Accounting) 3 3

Agribusiness Core Subtotal Credits 14 4

Specified concentration courses, Food and Agribusiness selectives

(FAB)7 and Ag Econ selectives Subtotal Credits

21 21

TOTAL Credits 47 40 1AGEC 204 or ECON 251 are substitutes.

2ECON 252 is a substitute.

3Choose from AGEC 305, 340, 406, 410, 415, 450, or ECON 251 and higher.

4MGMT 323 is a substitute.

5ENTR 200 is a substitute.

6MGMT 310 is a substitute.

7FAB selectives from:

AGEC 310, 311, 321, 331, 333, 411, 412, 421, 425, 427, 429, 430, 431, 455, 456, 524, 526,

533

CSR 209, , 282, 309, 315, 331, 332, 342, 344, 386, 401, 404, 409, 415, 481

HORT 435

ENTR, MGMT, IT, OBHR, or OLS courses at the 200+ level (cannot complete both OLS

252 and 274)


Table VII-9. Concentrations in Agribusiness

AGRIBUSINESS: Agrimarketing Concentration Cr

AGEC 331 (Principles of Selling in Agricultural Business) 3

AGEC 427 (Advanced Agribusiness Marketing) 3

AGEC 429 (Agribusiness Marketing Workshop) 2

FAB selectives 7

AGEC selectives 6

Concentration total 21

AGRIBUSINESS: Agrifinance Concentration Cr

AGEC 524 (Agricultural Finance) 3

MGMT 201 (Management Accounting I) 3

AGEC 430 (Agricultural and Food Business Strategy) 3

AGEC 425 (Estate Planning & Property Transfer) or AGEC 456 (Fed Income Tax Law) 3

AGEC 455 (Agricultural Law) or MGMT 455 (Legal Background For Business I) 3

FAB selectives 3

AGEC selectives 3


AGRIBUSINESS: Agribusiness Management Concentration Cr

AGEC 430 (Agricultural and Food Business Strategy) 3

AGEC 455 (Agricultural Law or MGMT 455 Legal Background For Business I) 3

OBHR 300 (Mgnt Of HR) or OLS 252 (HR in Organizations) or OLS 274 (Applied

Leadership) 3

IT 21400 (Intro To Lean Manufacturing), IT 23000 (Industrial Supply Chain

Management), IT 34200 (Intro To Statistical Quality), IT 43200 (Financial Transactions

In Distribution),

3

FABM selectives 6

AGEC selectives 3


AGRIBUSINESS: Food Marketing Concentration Cr

AGEC 331 (Principles of Selling in Agricultural Business) 3

AGEC 333 (Food Distribution — A Retailing Perspective) 3

FS 161 (Introduction to Food Processing) 3

FS 245 (Food Packaging) 2

FS 340 (Food Regulations) 1

FN 303 (Essentials Of Nutrition) or FN 315 (Fundamentals Of Nutrition) 3

FS 443 (Food Processing III) 3

FAB selectives 3


AGRIBUSINESS OR AG ECON: Commodity Marketing Concentration Cr

AGEC 305 (Agricultural Prices) 3

AGEC 321 (Principles of Commodity Marketing) 3

AGEC 421 (Advanced Commodity Marketing) 3

AGRY 305 (Seed Analysis and Grain Grading) or ANSC 351 (Meat Science) 2/3

AGEC 411 or 430a

4/3

AGEC selectives 3


FAB selectives 3

Concentration total 21 aNOTE: Students in the AG BUS major take AGEC 430, while students in the AG ECON

major can take either AGEC 411 or 430.

Table VII-10. Concentrations in Ag Econ

AG ECON: Quantitative Analysis Concentration1 Cr

ECON Elective (Note: will take 4 of 5 AGEC courses from footnote 3, p 1) 6

ECON 340 3

AGEC 596 (Mathematical Econ) 3

AGEC 375 (The Process of Economic Research) 1

AGEC 499 Thesis2

5

AGEC selectives 3

Concentration total 21 1 Must be eligible for honors in Ag Econ. Students must complete MA 224, AGEC 352/552

and AGEC 451/STAT 512 as Math/Science electives. 2Students may take up to 6 hours of AGEC 499

AG ECON: Agricultural Economics1 Cr

AGEC 310 (Farm Organization) or AGEC 330 (Management Methods for Ag

Business)

3

AGEC selectives 18

Concentration total 21 1The student must complete a capstone course. The choice of a capstone may influence

the choice of your courses, as prerequisites must be satisfied.

Section VIII, Page 1

VIII. GRADUATE PROGRAM

Program overview and context

The graduate program in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University is in the tradition of the

Land Grant College philosophy: knowledge for the improvement of the human condition. Sound

judgment, rigorous analysis and ability to define and solve problems are the goals of the

professional agricultural economist. Our program endeavors to create a challenging environment

of scholarship, creativity and freedom of intellectual inquiry. The Department of Agricultural

Economics awards two advanced degrees, the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and the the Master

of Science (M.S.). There are two components of the M.S. program, the one-campus students and

the students that are part of the distance-based MS/MBA program. The discussion in this section

refers to the on-campus group. In recent years we have graduated approximately 8-10 Ph.D.

students and 20-25 M.S. students each year. Students come to Purdue with varied backgrounds.

About 50 percent of the department's graduate students are U.S. citizens and come from all parts

of the country. Included in this group are some who have had extensive experience overseas in

agriculture, agribusiness, government agencies and the U.S. Peace Corps. Many transfer to

Purdue from other land-grant institutions; others come from urban backgrounds, have attended

liberal arts schools, or have returned to school after years of business experience. About half of

the department's graduate students come from outside the United States. The department's

graduate students typically represent more than 20 countries. This rich mixture of student

backgrounds is a primary strength of the program as it contributes significantly to the exchange

of ideas, thereby broadening students' professional training and opportunities for networking.

Graduate students typically receive financial support through fellowships and research

assistantships supported by research grants and contracts. Although the graduate program does

not receive any form of professional accreditation, it is externally reviewed on a regular basis via

procedures established by NIFA (formerly the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and

Extension Service). The most recent review of the department, including the graduate program,

took place in 2005. A listing of the M.S. and Ph.D. theses completed during the 2005-2011

post-review period is provided in Appendix G.

Ph.D. program overview

The Ph.D. program in Agricultural Economics is one of the longest-standing in the country,

having awarded its first Ph.D. degree in 1937. The Doctor of Philosophy degree is awarded to

students achieving the highest level of scholastic attainment. The Ph.D. graduate program is

designed to train research scientists capable of conducting independent study and research. It is

appropriate for those desiring leadership positions in government or business or faculty positions

in higher education. A doctoral degree in Agricultural Economics focuses on training students in

economic theory and applied economic methods and prepares students for careers in academia,

agribusiness, consulting firms, financial institutions, government, or non-governmental

organizations. The field of Agricultural Economics is quite broad and covers many areas of

specialization. All Ph.D. students in the department are required to choose and complete

requirements in at least one specialty area. The department undertook a review of Ph.D.

specialty areas during the 2010-2011 academic year. This resulted in some minor adjustments to

the scope and coursework requirements for specialty areas, including the elimination of two


specialty areas (community development and farm management) and the reconstruction and

relabeling of several other areas. Current specialty areas include:

Agribusiness Management

Agricultural Finance

Energy, Resources and Environmental Economics

International Development

International Trade

Markets and Industrial Organization

Production Economics

Space, Health and Population Economics

The department offers approximately 30 courses appropriate for students pursuing the Ph.D.,

with average enrollments of 8-12 students. The Ph.D. program underwent comprehensive

review and revision in 1996 and again, following the department’s strategic planning activities,

in 2010. Changes in the program that were enacted in 2010 reduced the number of required

courses, eliminated a previously required second-year ―core‖ comprehensive exam, and revised

the rules and requirements for the Ph.D. prospectus defense. The changes were made in order to

add somewhat more flexibility for students and to accelerate student progress into specialty-field

research activities. The department has a strong tradition of regularly reviewing the structure,

conduct and performance of the graduate program and making adjustments where needed.

M.S. program overview

Purdue awarded its first M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics (then Farm Management) in

1924. Within the M.S. program we currently offer two options. The Master of Science thesis

option program is research-oriented and prepares students for careers in research or staff

positions in business, government, or education. About two-thirds of the program for the M.S.

research option is devoted to course work and one-third to thesis research. Students who plan to

continue for the Ph.D. degree are encouraged to select this option. The Master of Science

professional option program substitutes additional course credits for the thesis. Students pursuing

this option are required to acquire research experience by taking a research oriented special

topics course of at least 3 credit hours under the supervision of a faculty member. The Master of

Science in Agricultural Economics provides excellent preparation for students seeking

professional positions in higher education, public service, and private industry. The program is

founded on a strong base in economic theory and quantitative research tools. This training is

combined with coursework focusing on applications of theory and analytical methods to

problem-solving. Coursework usually is followed by a research experience that develops the

student's ability to apply skills learned in the classroom. Our graduates receive superb training in

applied economics. They also learn how to solve social or business problems that cross specialty

or even disciplinary lines. The department offers approximately 30 courses available to students

at the M.S. level. These have average enrollments of 10-25 students. In addition, the department

launched a non-resident Executive MS-MBA program in 1999.


Enrollment data and trends

In 2011, approximately 215 individuals applied for admission to the graduate program and we

admitted 91 students, for an overall acceptance rate of 42%. We enrolled 37 students for the fall

of 2011 (17% of applicants), reflecting a student yield of 41%. Although our enrollment level

has been quite steady over time, the underlying number of applications has risen sharply in

recent years, as shown by the data in Figure VIII-1. Much of this rise in the number of

applications can be traced to increases in non-domestic applications.

Figure VIII-1: Graduate program applications and enrollments, 2006-11

The enrollment data illustrated in Figure VIII-1 are provided in disaggregated form in tables

VIII-1 through VIII-3. In each table the upper panel presents data for applicants and the lower

panel presents data for registered students. Table VIII-1 shows the breakdown by degree

program, Table VIII-2 provides a breakdown by gender and minority designation, and Table

VIII-3 provides a breakdown by origin (domestic vs. international). The data in these tables

illustrate three basic patterns in our applicant pool and admissions process. First, the proportions

of applicants, in terms of degree program, gender and minority designation have remained fairly

constant over time. Roughly one-third of our students pursue the Ph.D. and two-thirds pursue

the M.S., and roughly half of our students are male and half are female in any given year.

Second, compared with the applicant pool, we admit and matriculate a slightly higher proportion

of female and minority students. Third, the number of international applicants continues to

increase, rising to nearly 80% of all applications in recent years, but the proportion of

international students in our programs has remained relatively steady at 50%.

0

50

100

150

200

250

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

acceptance rateapplicationsstudents admittedtotal enrolled


Table VIII-1: Applicants and Registered Graduate Students in Agricultural Economics, 2006-

2010 (by degree program)

Total M.S. Ph.D.

Year Applicants Number % Number %

2006 137 89 64% 48 35%

2007 176 106 60% 70 40%

2008 154 98 64% 56 35%

2009 173 91 53% 82 47%

2010 216 136 62% 80 36%

Total M.S. Ph.D.

Year Registered Number % Number %

2006 92 46 50% 46 50%

2007 81 42 52% 39 48%

2008 95 51 54% 44 46%

2009 84 37 44% 47 56%

2010 88 47 53% 41 47%

Note: totals exclude a small number of applicants or students

registered for post-baccalaureate non-degree programs in some

years. The numbers for the M.S. represent the resident (on-campus)

program.



2010 (by gender and minority designation)

Total Female Male Minorities

Year Applicants Number % Number % Number %

2006 138 43 31% 95 69% 7 5%

2007 176 74 42% 102 58% 12 7%

2008 162 73 45% 89 55% 11 7%

2009 173 82 47% 91 53% 8 5%

2010 220 95 43% 125 57% 7 3%

Total Female Male Minorities

Year Registered Number % Number % Number %

2006 92 34 37% 58 64% 4 5%

2007 81 32 39% 49 61% 8 10%

2008 90 45 50% 45 50% 9 10%

2009 89 40 45% 49 55% 8 10%

2010 88 44 50% 44 50% 5 6%

Note: totals include a small number of applicants or students registered for post-baccalaureate

non-degree programs in some years.


2010 (by origin)

Total Domestic International

Year Applicants Number % Number %

2006 138 62 45% 76 55%

2007 176 69 39% 107 41%

2008 162 51 31% 111 69%

2009 173 40 23% 133 77%

2010 220 49 22% 171 78%

Total Domestic International

Year Registered Number % Number %

2006 92 38 41% 54 59%

2007 81 35 46% 46 54%

2008 90 42 47% 48 53%

2009 89 41 46% 48 54%

2010 88 41 47% 47 53%

Note: totals include a small number of applicants or students

registered for post-baccalaureate non-degree programs in some

years.


Student preparation and performance

Indicators of student preparation and performance are provided in tables VIII-4 through VIII-6.

Table VIII-4 displays average GRE and TOEFL scores for all applicants and registered students

over the period 2006 to 2010. These data suggest a recent trend of increasing quality of

applicants and registered students, as measured in terms of GRE quantitative and analytical

scores. Table VIII-5 provides a snapshot of the profiles of students enrolled in 2005 and 2011,

disaggregated by program and origin of applicant. These data indicate increases in GRE

Quantitative scores among program participants ranging from 8% (for international M.S.

students) to 14% (for international Ph.D. students). GRE Quant scores among those in the

domestic pool of students increased by 11%, on average, over the period. Table VIII-6 presents

a broad set of graduate program performance statistics for students enrolled in the M.S. thesis,

M.S. professional and Ph.D. programs. Data in the table are simple averages for all students

over the period 2005-2010. On average, the Median Time to Degree (MTD) is 2.5 years for

students earning the M.S. degree (with thesis) and 4.6 years for students earning the Ph.D. (post-

M.S.). MTD is, on average, approximately 6 months greater for international students than

domestic students. 79% of M.S. students and 88% of Ph.D. students receive financial support at

the start of their program, mostly in the form of a Research Assistantship. 5% of M.S. students

and 16% of Ph.D. students received Fellowship support. In terms of placement, roughly one-

third of M.S. students were employed in industry, one-third in other occupations, and one-third

went on to pursue Ph.D. studies (at Purdue or elsewhere). Among Ph.D. students, 45% took jobs

in academia. Recent graduates have joined the faculty at Alberta, Cal Poly, Clemson,

Concordia, Florida, Idaho, Kansas State, Louisiana State, Mississippi State, Murray State, New

Mexico State, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Purdue, Sam Houston, Saskatchewan, SUNY –

Morrisville, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin and Wyoming.


Table VIII-4: Average GRE and TOEFL Scores of Applicants and Registered Graduate Students

in Agricultural Economics, 2006-2010

Year

Applicants

GRE

Verbal

GRE

Quantitative

GRE

Analytical

TOEFL

2006 138 437 637 3.7 259

2007 176 472 646 3.6 265

2008 162 448 670 3.2 93

2009 173 477 724 3.3 92

2010 220 464 720 3.4 93

Year

Registered

GRE

Verbal

GRE

Quantitative

GRE

Analytical

TOEFL

2006 92 580 568 5.0 253

2007 81 487 630 3.4 262

2008 90 477 638 3.4 89

2009 89 491 667 3.6 91

2010 88 503 723 4.2 97

Note: TOEFL score reflects new system of scoring staring in 2008.

Totals include a small number of applicants or students registered for

post-baccalaureate non-degree programs in some years.


Table VIII-5: Profile of Enrolled Graduate Students, by degree program (2005 and 2011)

2005 M.S. Ph.D.

Metric Domestic International Domestic International

GRE Verbal 425 494 399 492

GRE Quantitative 665 641 669 636

GRE Analytical 3.8 4.4 4.3 5.5

TOEFL 587 na 247 Na

GPA (pre-Purdue) 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.7

2011 M.S. Ph.D.

Metric Domestic International Domestic International

GRE Verbal 466 500 472 576

GRE Quantitative 738 693 741 722

GRE Analytical 3.4 4.2 4.3 4.8

TOEFL 94.7 na 99 Na

GPA (pre-Purdue) 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.7

*This represents the residence (on-campus) M.S. students only.


Table VIII-6: Graduate Program Performance Statistics 2006-2011 (update data)

M.S.

(Thesis)

M.S.

(Professional) Ph.D.

Median Time to Degree (MTD)

Overall MTD 2.5 2.4 4.6

MTD Domestic 2.1 2.1 4.2

MTD International 2.8 2.7 4.9

Activities (avg. number)

Awards 0.22 0.38 0.34

Professional Meetings 0.29 0.38 0.87

Publications 0.89 0.87 3.28

Support

Research Assistantship 71% — 77%

Teaching Assistantship 0% — 11%

Fellowship 5% — 16%

Initial Support 79% — 88%

Placement

Industry 39% 96% 2%

Academia 3% 2% 45%

Government U.S. 12% 0% 23%

Government Foreign 5% 2% 11%

NGO 4% 0% 15%

Ph.D. Program 30% 0% 0%

Other 7% 0% 3%

*M.S. student numbers represent residence students (on-campus)


Learning outcomes

At the conclusion of the 2007-2008 academic year the department established a set of learning

outcome objectives for graduate students in Agricultural Economics. Four outcomes were

adopted based on recommendations of a University-wide effort to develop graduate student

learning outcomes for Purdue University. A fifth outcome, focused on professional development,

was developed by the College of Agriculture’s Graduate Council to assess graduate student

learning activities that were considered to be essential to the training of graduate students in the

College. Based on the recommendations of the College of Agriculture’s Graduate Council and

the approval of the Graduate Committee and faculty members in the Department Agricultural

Economics, all five Graduate Student Learning Outcomes were adopted by our department.

These learning outcomes are listed in Table VIII-7.

Table VIII-7: Learning Outcomes for Graduate Students in Agricultural Economics

Learning Outcome Description

1: Knowledge and

Scholarship

Students shall identify and conduct original research, scholarship or

engage in similar creative endeavors.

2: Communication Student shall be able to effectively communicate in their field of

study.

3: Critical Thinking and

Problem Solving

Students shall demonstrate the ability to think critically and

creatively, and solve problems in their field of study.

4: Ethical Conduct Students shall conduct research in an ethical and responsible manner.

5: Professional

Development

Students shall demonstrate attributes of professional development

consistent with expectations within their field of study.

The development of the graduate student learning outcomes listed in Table VIII-7 involved a

number of stakeholders. Initially, proposed learning outcomes were discussed and refined within

the context of the broader College of Agriculture community through the efforts of the College

of Agriculture’s Graduate Council. Once the Graduate Council had agreed upon a set of

outcomes that were satisfactory to the group, members of the council were asked to take the

recommended outcomes to their respective departmental graduate committees for review, input,

and approval. After deliberations on the appropriateness and completeness of the outcomes by

the members of the departmental graduate committee, outcomes were presented to the faculty in

the department with the endorsement by the graduate chair. Faculty members were asked to

consider the outcomes, discuss these outcomes as appropriate, and to endorse these outcomes for

the department.

The development of the associated activities and assessment tools for the Department of

Agricultural Economics also involved stakeholders in a manner similar to that discussed above.

First, learning activities and assessment tools were discussed and refined within the context of


the broader College of Agriculture community through the efforts of the College of Agriculture’s

Graduate Council. Once the Graduate Council had agreed upon a set of learning activities and

assessment tools that were satisfactory to the group, members of the council were asked to take

the recommended activities and assessment tools to their respective departmental graduate

committees for review, input, and approval. After deliberations on the relevance of the proposed

activities and assessment tools for the individual departmental graduates training programs by

the members of the departmental graduate committee, a refined set of activities and assessment

tools were presented to the faculty in each respective department with the endorsement of the

graduate committee in that department. Faculty members were asked to consider the learning

activities and assessment tools, and to discuss these activities and assessment tools as

appropriate. Collection of data via assessment tools for the Department of Agricultural

Economics Department is accomplished through the participation of Graduate Advisors,

Graduate Advisory Committee Members, Graduate Students, the Chairperson of the Graduate

Committee, the departmental Graduate Committee, and the Graduate Coordinator.

Although student progress on learning outcomes is based on activities in a number of settings

(both inside and outside the classroom), and can be effectively monitored and assessed at many

stages in a student’s program, it has been the primary view of the faculty that the most

appropriate time to assess student learning outcomes is at critical points in the student’s program,

such as the thesis defense (in the case of M.S. students) and the dissertation prospectus and

defense (in the case of Ph.D. students). The rubrics currently used to assess student learning

outcomes are provided in at the end of this section. These rubrics are completed voluntarily at

the appropriate time by faculty members serving on the student’s advisory committee. In the

case of assessments regarding the ethical conduct of research, responsibility generally rests with

the major professor. Starting in 2010, the department has been using the iThenticate software in

a pro-active manner to screen students’ written work at early stages for signs of plagiarism.

Twice yearly (at the conclusion of the spring and fall semesters) the graduate chair reviews data

on performance metrics as measured using the learning outcomes rubrics. All metrics that

indicate patterns of performance below expectations at a rate greater than 10% of observed

metrics (or 2 standard deviations below the mean, as appropriate), are flagged for discussion with

the graduate faculty as necessary and appropriate. The strengths of our learning outcomes

assessment process are the following. First, the process in place is data driven, providing us with

an opportunity to make evidenced-based decisions regarding the program. Second, the process

for collecting data has broad faculty participation. Although we do not require faculty to

complete rubrics, voluntary faculty compliance has remained relatively high (approximately

75%). Third, the process is transparent, providing an opportunity to communicate expectations

to students.

Data collection began in the fall of 2008. Based on initial experiences, the rubrics were revised

slightly in 2009 (but in a way that provides continuity of data). Data reported in Table VIII-8

show that, as of this time, we have assessed final learning outcomes from the cohorts of students

who completed the M.S. or Ph.D. programs starting in 2008-09 (through July 2011), or

completed a Ph.D. prospectus during the same period. A total of 51 students completed the M.S.

degree during this time, 25 students completed the Ph.D. and 28 students defended a Ph.D.

prospectus, providing a total sample size of 104 students. For these students, we have 276


faculty assessments regarding overall student performance as well as performance on specific

metrics.

Table VIII-8: Summary of Sample Data for Learning Outcomes in Agricultural Economics

Students Faculty responses Response rate

MS defense 51 113 74%

PhD prospectus 28 84 75%

PhD defense 25 79 79%

Total 104 276 75%

Table VIII-9 provides a breakdown of the available data by year and event. (Note that in some

cases not all faculty members provided ―overall evaluations‖ for students; as a result, counts

provided in tables VIII-8 and VIII-9 may differ slightly from counts in figures VIII2 through

VIII-7 presented below).


Table VIII-9: Sample Data for Learning Outcomes in Agricultural Economics, by Program and

Year

MS Defenses PhD Prospectuses PhD Defenses

2008 7 6 3

2009 11 7 9

2010 17 12 8

2011 16 3 5

Total 51 28 25

Note: data for 2011 complete through July only.

The Learning outcomes data have been compiled using standard data management software and

then converted for analysis and presentation using Stata. The complete set of statistical results

generated using this process is available from the graduate program chair. Overall assessments

are reported below in a series of six charts (figures VIII-2 through VIII-7). A summary of

available findings indicates satisfactory or above satisfactory overall performance for the vast

majority of students.

We believe that our current sample is likely to be too small for forming definitive conclusions

regarding our program or student performance at this time. It is also not clear whether

performance patterns, if they prove to be credible indicators, suggest more than heterogeneous

performance and assessment. However, several areas have been identified for ongoing

monitoring. In particular, we are paying special attention to students' oral and written

communication skills and remaining attentive to opportunities to strengthen student development

in these areas, which seem to be flagged most often as ―below expectations.‖ In addition, in the

coming year the graduate program chair will undertake an effort to analyze these outcome data in

light of student characteristics at the time of admission (e.g. GRE scores, GPAs) to highlight

opportunities to improve the screening and admission processes, and to establish interventions to

improve student success.


Figure VIII-2: Learning Outcomes Assessment: Overall Performance, M.S. Written Thesis

(2008-11)

Figure VIII-3: Learning Outcomes Assessment: Overall Performance, M.S. Oral Defense (2008-

11)


Figure VIII-4: Learning Outcomes Assessment: Overall Performance, Ph.D. Prospectus (2008-

11)

Figure VIII-5: Learning Outcomes Assessment: Overall Performance, Ph.D. Oral Prospectus

(2008-11)


Figure VIII-6: Learning Outcomes Assessment: Overall Performance, Ph.D. Dissertation (2008-

11)

Figure VIII-7: Learning Outcomes Assessment: Overall Performance, Ph.D. Oral Defense (2008-

11)


Rubrics for assessing graduate student learning outcomes


Department of Agricultural Economics Rubric for Evaluating M.S. Oral Defense

Attribute Unacceptable Performance

1

Below Expectations

2

Meets Expectations

3

Exceeds Expectations

4

Superior Performance

5

Communication (spoken delivery, presentation, etc.)

CLARITY & ORGANIZATION of the oral presentation

Ability to COMMUNCATE clearly during the presentation

Knowledge and scholarship

Ability to demonstrate CRITICAL THINKING skills

Quality of RESPONSES to questions

Quality of ARGUMENTS during questioning

OVERALL Assessment

Specific comments:

Completed by:__________________________________________ Date:__________________


Department of Agricultural Economics Rubric for Evaluating M.S. Written Thesis


1

Below Expectations

2

Meets Expectations

3


4


5

Quality of research and demonstration of critical thinking

Motivating arguments

Statement of objectives

Understanding of literature

Originality and insight

Potential for success

Contribution to discipline and significance of research

Discovery of new knowledge

Expansion of prior research

Publication potential

Quality of writing in the thesis document (strength of writing, freedom from errors, organization)

Writing

Organization

Documentation

Evidence that the work adheres to ethical standards and was conducted in responsible manner

OVERALL Assessment

Specific comments:


Completed by:__________________________________________ Date:__________________ Department of Agricultural Economics Rubric for Evaluating Ph.D. Oral Prospectus


1

Below Expectations

2

Meets Expectations

3


4


5


CLARITY & ORGANIZATION of the oral prospectus






OVERALL Assessment

Specific comments:



Department of Agricultural Economics Rubric for Evaluating Ph.D. Written Prospectus


1

Below Expectations

2

Meets Expectations

3


4


5








Potential for discovery



Quality of writing in the prospectus document (strength of writing, freedom from errors, organization)

Writing

Organization

Documentation

Evidence that the work adheres to ethical standards and will be conducted in responsible manner

OVERALL Assessment

Specific comments:



Department of Agricultural Economics Rubric for Evaluating Ph.D. Oral Defense


1

Below Expectations

2

Meets Expectations

3


4


5


CLARITY & ORGANIZATION of the oral presentation






OVERALL Assessment

Specific comments:



Department of Agricultural Economics Rubric for Evaluating Ph.D. Written Dissertation


1

Below Expectations

2

Meets Expectations

3


4


5








Discovery of new knowledge



Quality of writing in the dissertation document (strength of writing, freedom from errors, organization)

Writing

Organization

Documentation

Evidence that the work adheres to ethical standards and was conducted in responsible manner

OVERALL Assessment

Specific comments:


Section IX, Page 1

IX: EXTENSION PROGRAM

Challenges are ongoing for all Extension programs across the country including Purdue.

Funding and maintenance of the human resources to develop and deliver educational

programs and materials are at the top of that list. Over time, most of our department’s

Extension staff have successfully added undergraduate teaching to their duties. Now high

undergraduate enrollments in the department are putting even greater pressure on the time

available to deliver their Extension programing. The weakness of state and federal

government funding is well documented and the implications for Land Grant institutions

are clearly understood. Yet, our dynamic world is generating important new needs and

opportunities for Extension education. Tight financial resources make it challenging to

maintain relevant existing programs and also be responsive to these new needs.

Given this resource challenged environment, the department continues to maintain a

strong Extension component. How has that been accomplished? Here are three reasons.

First, is the broader support for Extension at the college, university, and at the state level.

Purdue University and the State of Indiana have sustained a county based Extension

presence that provides the framework and cooperation for development and distribution

of departmental outputs. Secondly, the department’s Extension staff are affiliated with

two centers that are helping to maintain Extension resources and potentially provide a

means of increased future funding. These include the Center for Food and Agricultural

Business (CAB) and the new Center for Commercial Agriculture (CCA). As an example,

Farm Credit Services of Mid-America provided a large grant to develop farm

management materials and educational programs for a select group of their clients.

Purdue staff developed and delivered those educational outputs to those private clients,

but that material has now been made available for general Extension distribution. This

has allowed privately funded programs to become available for the broader public good.

The new Center for Commercial Agriculture has also generated funds that will hire staff

that will be supportive to Extension specialist efforts in farm management, commodity

marketing, and related areas.

Third, Extension staff members have been very successful in securing substantial funding

for their Extension programs. In terms of large funding sources, there has been an

increasing requirement to provide both research and Extension components in successful

grants. Departmental Extension staff, with our strong link to a county educator system,

have often been successful in winning these awards and in meeting these dual objectives.

In a related manner, most Extension specialists have some financial support from

organizations and clients they work closely with. This ranges from full-costs recovery

fees, to partial-costs recovery fees, to donations to cover sponsored meals and travel

expenses.

Purdue faces these on-going funding challenges but is committed to maintaining a center

of excellence in commercial agriculture programs while selectively pioneering programs

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on the new educational frontier. One of these new areas in recent years has been the

development of an Extension program in ―Small Business Management and

Entrepreneurship.‖ Another example is Extension programming in energy education as

agriculture has become increasingly integrated with the energy industry. The department

must continue to evaluate needs of important clientele groups and set priorities on which

programs we have the resources to meet at the high level of competency our clients

deserve. This will primarily be done by staff members pursuing subject areas where

funding is available and through the departmental priorities that are established in hiring

new staff members.

Retirements in coming years mean the department will need to make decisions on staff

needed for Extension education in crop insurance, income tax education, strategic

management, legal affairs, farm management and commodity marketing. Retirements are

both a threat to programming, but also an opportunity to make resource reallocation

decisions.

The department also continues to integrate a bit more with neighboring Land Grant

institutions namely the University of Illinois, Michigan State University, and The Ohio

State University. Diminished resources in the future make us all see the advantages of

consolidation and integration. The department’s Extension staff plan to re-examine

successful multi-state programs and to initiate further discussion with these sister

institutions.

The department has maintained a large FTE base in Extension and the programming has

been impressive in magnitude, breadth and impact. Below is an overview of Extension

programming in the following categories: Small Business Management and

Entrepreneurship; State and Local Government and Rural Development; Agricultural

Finance; Energy and Natural Resources; Farm Management and Marketing; and Policy

and General Education.

Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Food Entrepreneurship Program (FEP)

Maria Marshall

The Food Entrepreneurship Program is in collaboration with the Food Science

Department with the objective to help potential food entrepreneurs make more informed

business decisions on the viability of their ventures. A food industry needs assessment for

Indiana provides basic data for demand components of food businesses. The program

provides educational materials and technical assistance on starting and running a food

business is provided by Ag Economists. The Food Science Department provides the

educational materials and technical assistance related to food processing. The FEP has

received $120,000 in grant funds from the Indiana Department of Agriculture to provide

technical assistance and educational programming. Outputs include a bi-annual workshop

titled, ―Introduction to Starting a Specialty Food Business in Indiana‖ sponsored by

Purdue Extension, Indiana Small Business Development Centers (SBDC), and the

Indiana Board of Health

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Indiana MarketMaker

Maria Marshall

Indiana MarketMaker is an interactive mapping system that locates businesses and

markets for agricultural products in Indiana thus providing an important link between

producers and consumers. It is a powerful directory of state and regional food producers

and buyers. Indiana MarketMaker has 305 agriculture producers registered on its site.

Indiana MarketMaker is one of the most successful partner sites generating the most hits

of all 12 partner states since its launch in 2008. On average the site receives 99,648 hits

per month

Business Beginnings

Maria Marshall

Business Beginnings is an introductory business management education program directed

in Spanish to the Hispanic community. Reaching underrepresented groups is a new and

important focus for Extension. This course is taught in collaboration with the Business

Owners Initiative and The Central Indiana Women’s Center. The course focuses on

starting and managing a small business in Indiana and includes content such as business

planning, financial management, organizational structure, and marketing. As a result of

the course, participants have been able to identify key financial, marketing, and

regulatory concepts and issues. Approximately 30% of the attendees have gone on to start

a small business. Of those attendees who already had a business, 100% said the course

will help them manage their business better. Thirty percent of the attendees decided to

delay the start of their new venture to get better prepared.

Family Business and Disaster Recovery

Maria Marshall

Most small businesses are family businesses. Family business research has shown that the

family and the business are interconnected not only in terms of financial and human

resources, but also in terms of emotional support. Yet, systematic analyses of the business

development process in the context of the family are surprisingly scarce in the literature.

It is especially scarce when the focus is simultaneous stressors to the family and the

business from non-normative disruptions such as death and disaster. Two important

stressors for family businesses are 1) the transition of the business from one generation to

the next and 2) the recovery from a natural disaster. This program focus on discovering a

better understanding of business recovery from disaster and then the development of

educational materials to help businesses make better decisions in recovery.

Organic Agriculture

Corinne Alexander and Maria Marshall

Organic acreage and organic livestock operations are growing rapidly in Indiana;

according to certifiers the number of certified organic operations has more than doubled

since 2002. While the organic market is small, there is substantial demand for

information from producers. The focus of this program has been to increase the

availability of information on organic grain and dairy markets, through workshops and

publications. Currently, Drs. Alexander and Marshall are leading a research effort on

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organic vegetable production in Indiana, funded by the NIFA Organic Research and

Education Initiative which is expected to generate valuable information for future

Extension efforts.

Small Farm and Sustainable Agriculture Team

Corinne Alexander, Jennifer Dennis, Maria Marshall, and Kwamena Quagrainie

The Small Farms and Sustainable Agriculture Team is committed to providing

educational opportunities in the area of small farms and sustainable agriculture in order to

help producers establish or expand successful, sustainable farm businesses and strengthen

Indiana’s rural communities. Funded by the USDA’s, Sustainable Agriculture Research

and Education (SARE) program.

Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization Center (AICC)/New Ventures Team

Joan Fulton, Maria Marshall, Jennifer Dennis and Kwamena Quagrainie

AICC is a multi-faceted program with the goal of assisting existing small business

owners and new entrepreneurs to be more successful as a result of careful evaluation,

planning and implementation of the plan for their business in areas including human

resources, finance, marketing and management. It has been supported by external funds

from several sources (including a $1 million Innovation Center grant from the USDA

Rural Business-Cooperative Service as well as support from the state government and

other federal agencies) This multidisciplinary program has a significant Extension

component that is supported by a solid base of applied research. The multi-faceted

program includes workshops (in-person and using distance delivery), publications,

InVenture (the on-line business planner), and one-on-one counseling for business owners.

The New Ventures Team is deliberately structured to include campus specialists and

county educators to balance the need for a strong research based program that also

address immediate needs of the small business owners. This program makes extensive

use of partners including the departments of agriculture at the state and federal levels, the

Small Business Development Centers, local Chambers of Commerce and other business

development agencies as appropriate. External funding has been critical for this program

on both the Extension and research fronts. This group was awarded the Purdue

University Cooperative Extension Service Team Award in 2006, the American

Agricultural Economics Association Extension Section award for the Best Web Site in

2006, the Purdue University College of Agriculture Dean's Team Award in 2007 and the

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Distinguished Extension/Outreach

Group award in 2009.

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State and Local Government and Rural Development

Understanding State and Local Government Issues

Larry DeBoer

Program topics include: Understanding Property Taxes for both taxpayers and local

government officials; Farmland Property Taxes; Local Option Income Taxes;

Understanding the State Budget; and General Economic Outlook. Audiences include a

wide range of local government groups such as the Indiana School Business Officers

Association, School Superintendents Association, Association of Indiana Counties,

Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, Association of County Commissioners,

Association of Fire Chiefs, and the Indiana Libraries Association as well as presentations

to the general population at Extension meetings, Chamber of Commerce programs, and

for other organizations. Outputs include a host of meetings, media broadcasts, a monthly

column, web casts, a web sites and videos on YouTube. The program also works closely

with the state government to contribute to the annual state revenue forecast, and provide

models for policy analysis of the sales tax, tobacco tax, alcoholic beverage tax, and

others.

Director Training for Cooperative Councils

Joan Fulton

In partnership with Drs. Susan Hine and James Pritchett from Colorado State University

Fulton has developed and delivered interactive Director Training programs for the farmer

directors of the agricultural cooperatives in that state. These innovative programs are

deliberately structured to be highly interactive to enhance learning and understanding of

the duties and responsibilities that cooperative directors face. The programs have been

highly rated with participants asking for repeat programs.

Rural Capacity Building

Janet Ayres

These workshops range from two hours to three days and focus on building the capacity

of rural community leaders and professionals from state and federal organizations that

work in rural areas. The programs focus on dealing with rapid change in an increasingly

diverse world and contentious agricultural and natural resource issues. Specific topics

include communication, issue framing, conflict management, collaborative problem

solving and decision making, and other leadership competencies. Approximately 70

workshops are conducted each year with over 2,200 participants. Partners include the

Indiana Department of Agriculture, Indiana Association of Soil & Water Conservation

Districts, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Indiana Department of

Environmental Management, and USDA/Rural Development.

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Agricultural Finance

Midwest Agricultural Banking School

Freddie Barnard

This is a three-day educational program for commercial bankers involved in making

loans to agricultural producers and businesses, who have less than 5 years of experience.

A set curriculum is used to address basic topics needed to evaluate agricultural loans. The

school is co-sponsored by the Indiana Bankers Association, Illinois Bankers Association,

Kentucky Bankers Association, Michigan Bankers Association, The Ohio Bankers

League, and the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. The

average registration for the past 5 years has been 21. The school is evaluated using a

student evaluation and a committee of bankers who review the curriculum annually.

Registration and out-of–pocket costs are handled by the Indiana Bankers Association

with the department coordinating and delivering the program.

Advanced Agricultural Lenders Workshop

Freddie Barnard

This is a two-day educational program for commercial bankers involved in making loans

to agricultural producers and businesses, who have more than 5 years of experience and

are usually at the senior management level. The school is co-sponsored by the Indiana

Bankers Association, Michigan Bankers Association, The Ohio Bankers League, and the

Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. An in-depth area of lending

is typically covered (i.e., credit analysis for complex businesses, marketing agricultural

loans, futures and options, etc.). The average registration for the past 5 years has been

35. The school is evaluated using a student evaluation and a committee of bankers who

review the program annually. Registration and out-of-pocket costs for the school are

handled by the Indiana Bankers Association and the department coordinates and delivers

the program.

Indiana Bankers Agricultural Clinic

Freddie Barnard

This is a one-day educational program for commercial bankers involved in making loans

to agricultural producers and agricultural businesses. The clinic is co-sponsored by the

Indiana Bankers Association and the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue

University. The Clinic program focuses on topics of interest for the agricultural lending

community (i.e., commodity price outlook, legislative changes, credit market outlook,

etc.). The Clinic is planned by a committee of agricultural bankers, the Indiana Bankers

Association, and Professor Barnard who meet annually. Average registration for the past

5 years has been 112. This program is also evaluated by the attendees and a committee of

bankers. Registration and out-of-pocket costs for the Clinic are handled the Indiana

Bankers Association and the department coordinates and delivers the program.

Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

Freddie Barnard

This is a one-day continuing education program that also serves as the annual meeting for

the Indiana Chapter. The program is coordinated by the chapter officers and Professor

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Barnard, who also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer for the chapter. The average

registration for the past 5 years has been 77. The program is evaluated each year by the

chapter officers. A fall tour is also held annually. The chapter handles registration and all

costs for the program.

Energy and Natural Resources

Energy Economics

Wally Tyner

The department has an active research program in energy economics and policy analysis

headed by Wally Tyner. As a result there are many Extension applications and Wally has

an active extension program in energy economics and policy. He makes 20+ Extension

presentations to international, national, and regional audiences on various energy

economics and policy topics each year. In 2010 he had 7 extension publications related

to biofuels economics and policies. He does scores of media interviews each year and is

frequently quoted in regional and national media including the New York Times, Wall

Street Journal, Economist, Los Angeles Times, Feedstuffs, and many others. Also as part

of his Extension efforts he prepares policy briefs for congressional staff on various

energy policy issues. In 2010-11 he was co-chair of the National Academy of Science

committee on the economic and environmental impacts of biofuels.

State Utility Forecasting Group (SUFG)

Paul Preckel-Faculty Director to SUFG

This interdisciplinary group of engineers and economists provides outreach and

educational support to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC). There are

currently four full-time staff and a one half time administrative assistant. There are two

regular outreach publications – a biannual, long-term (20 year) forecast of Indiana

electricity demand, pricing, and generation capacity needs; and an annual compendium

documenting the current usage of renewable energy resources within the state. In

addition, the group provides educational programs and special study reports to the State

Regulatory commission and other stakeholders such as the Indiana State Legislature,

utilities, Indiana’s Office of the Consumer Counsel, environmental groups, etc. Past

studies have assessed impacts of restrictions on air emissions from power plants

(including SOx, NOx, mercury, CO2, and other pollutants) and estimated consequences

of expansion of the wind power industry. The project is also involved with the

educational missions by typically employing 3-6 graduate research assistants and an

occasional undergraduate student.

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Farm Management and Marketing

Indiana Farm Management Tour

Alan Miller and staff

The tour is a two-day statewide educational event held annually to demonstrate superior

management practices of successful Indiana farm operators. The objective is to teach

farm management principles by seeing how they work in practice. As such, the tour

focuses on new technologies; challenges faced by managers; the strategies employed; and

the planning processes they have found successful. The tour provides an opportunity for

other farmers to see and to learn about modern farm management from their fellow

producers. Commercial sponsors provide $5,000 to $7,000 annually to help fund this

event.

Farming Together Workshop

Alan Miller, Craig Dobbins, Janet Ayres, Gerry Harrison, Angela Gloy, Maria Marshall

and Nicole Olynk

This two-day workshop provides information and advice on bringing new managers into

a farm business. It helps farm families initiate a plan for bringing new managers, and

ultimately new owners, into the business. The workshop challenges participants to: 1)

develop a plan for effective business communications, 2) create a shared vision for the

future of the business, 3) determine if resources are adequate, 4) define the future role of

each management team member, and 5) identify the steps that will be involved in

completing the management succession plan. In addition to participation in the initial

two-day workshop, many of the participants take advantage of the instructors’

commitment to provide one-on-one follow-up counseling for workshop participants. The

Farming Together Workshop program has led to a variety of educational presentations

related to succession planning, intergenerational property transfer planning, farm

business entity and business structure planning, and asset protection planning.

Intergenerational Transfers for Strong and Sustainable Farm Family Businesses

Maria Marshall, Janet. Ayres, Craig Dobbins, Roman Keeney, and Alan Miller

An integrated research, Extension and education project funded by a USDA AFRI grant.

The overall objective of this succession planning research is to identify the plans and

processes that have been used by farm and non-farm rural family businesses for

successfully making the management transition and for transferring business resources to

a new generation. This work examines not only the family and the business but also the

interactions that simultaneously influence the success of rural family farm and non-farm

family businesses, where success may be a qualitative measure of perceived achievement

of family and business goals and/or a quantitative measure of business profit and

household income. Primary data for this research is being collected through 30 minute

interviews with small and medium sized farm and non-farm food businesses in Indiana,

Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio.

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Farm Succession Planning

Angela Gloy

Dr. Gloy is currently providing leadership for developing an initiative to increase the

reach and impact of Extension programming in farm succession planning statewide. A

team of extension educators will: 1) build on the team’s own knowledge and

understanding of planning issues, 2) develop program resources available for stakeholder

use, 3) implement a hands-on, one-on-one farm family assistance program to enhances

planning success early in the process, and 4) evaluate program success using both

qualitative and quantitative metrics. The business model and topical coverage areas lend

themselves to working with a broader small business audience beyond the agricultural

community alone.

Enhancing Landlord/Tenant Relationships in Volatile Markets

Craig Dobbins and Alan Miller

This new initiative provides landowners and tenant farmers with resources for enhancing

landlord/tenant relationships by helping them to better understand each other’s situation

and objectives and identify ways to create win-win cropland leasing solutions. The

program will include webinars and face to face presentations, updating of the

department’s Internet-based leasing resources/planning tools, and staff development

opportunities for county Ag and Natural Resources Extension Educators. This

programming is being supported by a grant from the North Central Risk Management

Education Center.

Measuring and Analyzing Farm Financial Performance

Alan Miller, Craig Dobbins, Freddie Barnard, Michael Boehlje, and Nicole Olynk

This program outlines measures farmers can use to evaluate financial performance. It

provides instruction on how to use these metrics and provides participants with an Excel-

based tool to evaluate financial performance. The computer program also allows farmers

to evaluate the impact proposed changes in the operation have on financial performance.

During the past year this computer program was updated to include the additional

financial measures recommended by the Farm Financial Standards Council. Revision of

the associated Extension publication Measuring and Analyzing Farm Financial

Performance is close to being completed. A comprehensive case study that has been used

extensively in financial management training programs for farmers is also in the process

of being revised and updated.

Making Financial Decisions in Agriculture

Brent Gloy, Craig Dobbins, Alan Miller, Nicole Olynk, and Michael Boehlje

The Center for Commercial Agriculture has partnered with Farm Credit Services of Mid-

America to offer Making Financial Decisions in Your Farm Business. The workshop

guides participants through the process of improving farm profitability and financial

performance. Intended to help farmers accurately assess the strengths and weaknesses of

their operation, the program includes sessions on thinking like a CFO, cash income and

earnings, financial performance, managing risk, ratio analysis, and profitability analysis.

Program participants develop a better understanding of the drivers of profitability in the

farm operation, repayment capacity, and financial management.

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Top Farmer Crop Workshop

Brent Gloy, George Patrick, Corinne Alexander, Craig Dobbins, Nicole Olynk, Mike

Boehlje, Chris Hurt and other staff

The Top Farmer Workshop is a three day intensive workshop on the latest technologies

and research in crop production. It is held on campus each summer and attracts

participants from 8 Midwestern states. The educational material comes from three

components: researchers, industry representatives, and farmers. The workshop provides

information on the newest crop technology and management practices, tools that help

farmers decide if a technology or management practice fits their operation, and a forum

to debate cropping strategy with scientists, agribusiness leaders and other large scale

growers. It is well attended each year and is covered by the national crop production

media. The program is client fee based and self-supporting.

Purdue Income Tax Schools

George Patrick

The Purdue University Income Tax School programs are intended for tax professionals

and are designed to provide up-to-date training on current tax laws and regulations. The

two-day programs are held in ten convenient locations throughout Indiana. The program,

which is revised and updated annually, provides an in-depth review of a number of tax

areas and coverage of newly enacted laws, regulations, and procedures. Practical

information for filing individual and small business tax returns is stressed. Instruction is

provided by experienced tax professionals including CPAs, Enrolled Agents, an attorney

and others. The program provides 16 hours of continuing professional education credit (1

hour of ethics) for public accountants, CPAs and Enrolled Agents. Attorneys receive 12.9

hours (1 hour ethics) of continuing legal education and Certified Financial Planners

receive 16 hours of continuing professional education. The program is fee based and

generates revenue above direct costs.

Tax Planning for Farmers

George Patrick

Each year farmers need an update of changes in tax laws and refreshers on tax

management and planning. The program is a practical, management-oriented discussion

of recent tax changes and the implications for farmers, farm families and farm

businesses. Topics include a review and discussion of depreciation alternatives involving

additional first year depreciation, Sec. 179 expensing and regular depreciation.

Deducibility of health insurance premiums by the self-employed and other health care

changes are reviewed. Other topics include deductibility of prepaid expenses, deferral of

income, farm income averaging, reporting crop insurance indemnities and distress sales

of livestock. Tax planning and management is highlighted.

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Strategic Business Planning for Commercial Producers

Mike Boehlje, Craig Dobbins, Alan Miller, Allan Gray

This is a comprehensive curriculum available on-line for educators to use in teaching

commercial farm managers to be highly effective business managers. To be successful,

farm managers must either have or acquire a comprehensive set of strategy, finance,

marketing and risk management tools. Purdue University has developed this resource, in

collaboration with Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, to teach these skills. This

resource includes: 1) Written lessons on finance, strategy, and marketing; 2) PowerPoint

presentations; 3) Exercises to apply the management concepts.

Purdue Crop Guides

Alan Miller and Craig Dobbins

Crop budgets are widely used by tenants, landlords, Extension educators, agribusiness

managers, and in undergraduate classes to understand the costs structure and potential

returns to crop production. Budgets are developed for three Indiana land qualities and for

various rotations including continuous corn, corn-soybeans, and corn-soybeans-wheat-

double crop soybeans. Budgets are first published in September for the upcoming year in

order to help evaluate whether to seed winter wheat. The budgets are then updated in

January as production decisions turn to corn or soybeans for spring seeding. Budgets are

developed in close coordination with Purdue Agronomists, Weed Scientist and Plant

Pathologist.

Land Values and Cash Rents

Craig Dobbins

An annual survey of agricultural lenders, FSA personnel, farm managers, rural

appraisers, and other professionals with knowledge of farmland is conducted to gather

data about values and cash rents. The survey is conducted each year in June and covers

three levels of soil productivity in 6 regions of the state of Indiana. Results are widely

used by Extension Educators, land owners and tenants throughout the state. Results

provide a basis for education regarding the driving forces of land values and rents and a

framework for developing the outlook for land values and rents. The annual survey has

been completed since 1974 and this long time series makes the results very useful in

research projects and in undergraduate classes.

Indiana Custom Rates

Alan miller and Craig Dobbins

A custom rate survey is conducted periodically. Rates for machinery operation including

land preparation, chemical application, planting, crop and hay harvesting, and other

operations is collected. Rapidly changing costs of machinery and fuel in recent years has

made the periodic cycle too infrequent. A decision will need to be made on the costs and

benefits of updating this information at more frequent intervals than in the past.

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Commodity Marketing Alternatives

Chris Hurt and Corinne Alexander

This program provides in-depth education on how to use pricing alternatives of futures

and options markets for agricultural producers and agribusiness managers. The emphasis

is on using pricing alternatives to manage risk and is geared to either grain or livestock

industries. The program is available in workshop format, or individual segments can be

the foundation for shorter educational segments.

Managing Margin Risk

Chris Hurt, Corinne Alexander, and George Patrick

Managing margin risk has become incredibly important for producers given commodity

price volatility and input cost increases. While record profits are possible, producers must

simultaneously manage product price risk and input cost risk to maintain profitable

margins. The objective of this program is to provide producers with the tools to

determine their breakeven prices, participation in government programs, marketing plans,

crop insurance decisions, and land leasing alternatives with the end goal of being able to

―lock in‖ profitable margins. This program has been presented in a 5 part series or in

individual segments. The audience is grain and livestock producers and grain elevator

managers.

Agricultural Outlook

Chris Hurt, Corinne Alexander, Larry DeBoer, Roman Keeney, Phil Abbott, Craig

Dobbins, Alan Miller, Bruce Erickson, and Nicole Olynk

The latest issues impacting the farm economy are examined and these may include

general economy issues like GDP growth, interest rates, and inflation. The agricultural

trade prospects and farm policy are summarized. Commodity outlooks are provided for

corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle, hogs, dairy, farm inputs, land values and cash rents. The

central focus is to examine the implications for Indiana agricultural managers and to

assist in their strategic management decisions. Outlook also provides a framework for

doing economic education. Audiences are commercial farmers, agribusiness managers,

and land owners. Meetings are hosted by County Extension, Agribusinesses and

Commodity organizations throughout the year. Each of the Purdue staff develop their

own programs in their specialized areas. The group generates many media contacts and

extension articles around these outlook topics. Financial support is through local banks

and agribusiness that tend to jointly sponsor outlook programs with county Extension

offices.

Economically Optimal Dairy Management Strategies and Technologies

Nicole Olynk

In collaboration with the Purdue University Extension Dairy Team, the dairy

management program provides support for on-farm decisions surrounding adoption of

various management strategies or technologies available for use in modern dairy

production systems. Analysis surrounding adoption of different dairy cattle breeding

strategies and various human resource management strategies have been completed. A

dairy breeding model is used to assess options for management strategies and technology

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adoption decisions in various Extension settings. Materials and presentations, including

the use of the decision model, are provided annually at the Indiana Regional Dairy

Meetings, reaching about 100 people annually.

Aquaculture Production and Management

Kwamena Quagrainie

The aquaculture extension program involves working with fish farmers on issues relating

to production, marketing, and risks related to farming fish. We’ve held a range of

workshops, provided outreach materials such as financial spreadsheets and videos, and

provided a wide range of advice to clients, reaching about 200 annually. Some clients

were talked out of getting into the aquaculture business because of their unrealistic

expectations of profitability. For the past 5 years funding has been secured from USDA-

RMA, USDA-ERS, USDA’s North Central Region Aquaculture Center, NOAA Sea

Grant and the Indiana Soybean Alliance.

Legal

Estate and Family Farm Business Transfer Planning

Gerry Harrison

Subject matter includes: Planning Goals, Objectives and a Vision for Family Business

Transfer, Property Ownership Law and Implications for Estate Planning, Without a Will,

Wills, Avoiding Probate, Living Wills, Long Term Care Insurance, Health Care Consent,

Durable Powers of Attorney; Federal Gift, Estate Taxes and Indiana Inheritance taxes

including Special Valuation of Farmland; Choices for Family Business Arrangements;

Buy-Sell Agreements; Estate Planning with Living Trusts; Charitable Planning—Income,

Gift and Estate Tax and Indiana Inheritance Tax Planning plus Conservation Easements.

Audience is for farmers, spouses and their adult family, landowners, agri-business

community, small business owners, Extension educators, lawyers and accountants.

Policy and General Education

Ag Policy Analysis and Education

Roman Keeney and staff

Ag policy is a historic strength of the department. A number of staff members are

involved with state and federal policy formulation in their individual specialty areas.

Within the farm bill, Purdue provides analysis to the Indiana political delegation in

Washington. Policy analysis is also provided to commodity groups and farm policy

organizations such as the Farm Bureau. Education is provided to farmers and land owners

on specific farm bill decisions such as the economic evaluation of participation in the

DCP program versus the ACRE program.

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National Ag Policy Initiatives

Otto Doering

Otto continues to be engagement with federal agricultural policy decisions especially

with the conservation titles working with state and federal level FSA and NRCS staffs

and with farm audiences. He also engages a broad national scientific and policy audience

through his work with EPA and the National Academies and their reports. He chaired

EPA’s Integrated Nitrogen Committee that has just released its report on reactive

nitrogen in the environment and is on EPA’s Science Advisory Board that advises the

Administrator on the quality of science used in rule making and regulation. He also

serves on several National Academy committees dealing with water quality issues. As

Director of Purdue’s Climate Change Research Center he oversees outreach for that

center to Extension and other stakeholders.

Farm Bureau Supper Series

Ken Foster and staff

The Department co-hosts a biannual supper event with the Indiana Farm Bureau named

the Purdue-Farm Bureau Supper Series. Invitees include leadership staff of Indiana Farm

Bureau as well as faculty, students, staff, and Purdue administrators. This event provides

the opportunity for sharing ideas and concerns around important areas of interest to our

common stakeholder. The event plays an important role in leveraging our scholarship

through Farm Bureau’s network, in providing Purdue input to public policy, in helping us

refine our efforts in all mission areas, and in solidifying the support of farm stakeholders.

Recent topics have included: Animal Agriculture and CAFOs, Purdue’s Strategic Plan,

Property Tax Policy, Local Government Finance, Community Leadership Development,

College of Ag Strategic Plan, Indirect Land Use from Biofuel Production, Animal

Welfare, Alternative Energy Opportunities, Electricity Demand Forecasting,

Agroecology, the Role of County Extension, Antibiotic Use, Center for Commercial

Agriculture, Cellulosic Ethanol, Agricultural Outlook, and Energy Policy.

Purdue Agricultural Economics Report (PAER)

Gerry Harrison, Alan Miller, Chris Hurt, Phil Paarlberg, Jeff Greiner and staff

The PAER is a quarterly publication of the department. It is an outlet for Extension and

applied research results. The audience is composed of farmers, land owners, agribusiness

managers, state legislators, commodity groups, and others interested in agricultural and

rural issues. Distribution is primarily web based, but hard copies subscriptions are also

available for a modest fee.

Learning Tuesdays

Extension staff

Learning Tuesdays is a training program to update our County Ag and Natural Resources

Extension Educators with new information from the AgEcon Department. It consists of

monthly lessons on the second Tuesday of each month from October through March. The

1.5 hour updates are broadcast on Adobe connect and are available to all county Ag

Educators. Topics are chosen from work being completed on campus. Topics may

include land values, crop budgets, outlook updates, and new program offerings.

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Departmental Extension Web Site

Jeff Greiner and staff

The Departmental web site has an Extension section. Many of the publications and other

outputs of the Extension staff are available at this site. The challenge remains to keep the

site updated, relevant, and properly linked to other sites at Purdue.

That site is http://www.ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/extension.aspx and a more

complete list of departmental Extension program offerings is at

http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/extension/programs/2009prog.asp

http://www.ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/extension.aspx

http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/extension/programs/2009prog.asp

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X. CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS (CAB)

Workforce Development (Education or Training Programs Offered Off Campus & On Campus)

Agribusiness Management Webinar Series One of the primary goals of the Center is to

provide resources that help food and agribusiness managers perform more efficiently and

effectively in their jobs. Combining industry-based research with academic tools, our faculty are

able to create resources with practical implications for the way managers lead their

organizations. The Agribusiness Management Webinar Series is a collection of web-based mini-

lectures that provide insight into new or relevant topics for managers in the food and

agribusiness industries. These free webinars are offered several times each year, and are also

available to view as an archive after the events have taken place. In Fiscal 2007, the Center

offered three webinars: Real Options and Strategic Decision Making; MS-MBA in Food and

Agribusiness Management Virtual Open House; and, Managing Your Second Season: Getting the

Most Out of Your Sales Team.

Bigger Profits through Targeted Sales The Bigger Profits through Targeted Sales workshop

helps small businesses improve their profitability and positively impacts the Indiana economy.

Marketed to entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to grow their business, this

workshop attracts audiences from both rural and urban areas. It has drawn well over 350 people

who are new to Extension programming. Focusing on marketing and sales, the workshop

instructors coach participants through the process of developing their own marketing action plan

and selling strategy. Each participant leaves with a marketing action plan and selling strategy

that can be immediately implemented in their business. This workshop was initially offered

jointly with CAB and AICC/New Ventures. It is now offered as an AICC/New Ventures

program.

Management and Culinary Program for Executive Chefs of China This project strengthens

an already successful and long-standing working relationship between the Center for Food and

Agricultural Business and the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue.

This year‘s project drew from the Center‘s capacities to professionally manage the project with

the financial sponsor (the Cochran Fellowship Agency of the Foreign Agricultural Service of

USDA) and the capacities of the Department of HTM to provide technical expertise in restaurant

and culinary topics. The purpose of this project was to provide the Chinese chefs with a

professional educational experience that would improve their ability to incorporate U.S./Western

approaches to management, and that would also improve their acceptance and utilization of U.S.

food products in the hotel kitchens of China. This program focused on key functional restaurant

management topics as well as food and culinary topics, and provided the opportunity for

participants to discuss and apply the concepts to their own respective restaurant operations. The

format combined time in the classroom for lecture and discussion, culinary and cooking

demonstrations in the kitchen laboratories of HTM, field visits to successful restaurants in

Indiana and the Chicago area, and facilitation of the experience at the National Restaurant Show

in Chicago. We expect that the experiences of this program will have high impact and will be

long-lasting and meaningful. We also anticipate that it will have a high probability of being put

to use in the participants‘ own hotel restaurants in China.

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CSM Executive Management Program Tias Business School (The Netherlands), Krannert

Executive Education Programs, and the Center for Food and Agricultural Business teamed up to

deliver the second module of an executive development program for CSM, a global bakery and

food ingredient supplier based in The Netherlands. Managers from across global divisions were

immersed in on-going projects during the program. Winning Customer Advantage was the

theme of the one-week module delivered on the Purdue University campus. Instructors and

industry guests addressed market leadership, the sales organization as a way to further the

company‘s strategic advantage, product leadership and customer intimacy, process management,

supply chain management, and general issues surrounding strategic cost management.

An Overview of Management Principles for Sinograin As part of a broad project involving

Purdue‘s Post-Harvest Education and Research Center and the Office of International Programs

in Agriculture, the Center for Food and Agricultural Business coordinated the program and also

developed a management development component of the program for corporate level executives

and high-level managers of provincial offices in the Sinograin firm of China. The purpose of the

program was to raise awareness of the capacities of Purdue University in both the technical and

management areas in order to establish a long-term relationship with Sinograin. It is expected

that as a result of this initial program, there will be numerous opportunities for the Post-Harvest

Education and Research Center and the Center for Food and Agricultural Business to collaborate

in order to develop future programs for Sinograin. To this end, the program concluded with a

signing ceremony of a Letter of Intent between all three parties.

The objectives of the technical part of the program were to focus on the U.S. grain industry, to

feature Purdue‘s Post-Harvest Education and Research Center, and to provide a closer look at the

operations of U.S. grain firms. The objectives of the management part of the program were to

draw upon the expertise of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business and to study U.S.

principles of management, including strategy, marketing, human resource management, financial

management, and organizational structures of U.S. Firms.

Fifteen Chinese managers completed the program, which involved in-class presentations on

fundamental topic areas of management, interviews with U.S. managers of grain firms, and field

experiences to the Post-Harvest Education and Research Center, research laboratories and test

plots, and the Chicago Board of Trade.

Management Development Program for Food Retailers of Latin America and the

Caribbean The Management Development Program for Food Retailers of Latin America and the

Caribbean tapped the Purdue knowledge base in global and domestic retailing and paired that

with the U.S. food system for an in-depth look at retailing in the U.S. food sector. This program

was a collaboration between Dr. Frank Dooley of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Dr.

Patricia Warrington of the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, and Dr. Richard

Widdows, Head of the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing.

The audience of 23 managers from the Latin American and Caribbean food industry was very

diverse. Participants came from the countries of Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador,

Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, Chile, Costa Rica, and Anguilla B.W.I. This audience

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also had a wide variety of interests, from logistics and supply chain management to the consumer

end of the food system, focusing on merchandising and point-of-sale topics.

The Center developed a custom program based on three over-arching themes: (1) Comparisons

and Contrasts between Traditional Retailers and New Generation Retailers; (2) Understanding

the Strategies leading to Success of New Generation Retailers; and (3) Challenges and

Opportunities for New Entrants to the Marketplace. This thematic approach engaged the Fellows

in a realistic way and helped them develop strategies to better compete in their marketplace

today – as well as helped them to prepare for future challenges.

China Food and Agribusiness Program The Center for Food and Agricultural Business, in

conjunction with the Tippie Business School at the University of Iowa, partnered with the

Franklin Institute of Management, Inc. to teach in their food and agricultural business MBA

program in China. The Center‘s role was to develop and teach four food and agribusiness

management courses: Strategic Management for Food and Agribusiness Firms; Marketing

Management for Food and Agribusiness Firms; Operations Management II for Food and

Agribusiness Firms; and The Macroeconomic and Trade Environment for Food and Agribusiness

Firms. Two of these courses, taught by Dr. Jay Akridge and Dr. Dave Downey, were conducted

in Fiscal 2005 and the final two were conducted in Fiscal 2006.

Dr. Frank Dooley traveled to Beijing to teach Operations Management II—the advanced course

in operations management. This course continued the examination of the linkage between a

firm‘s product-market strategy and the role of the operations function. Students learned how

efficient consumer response, the supply chain management strategy for the food industry, is

affecting operations management in the food and agribusiness sector. Specific topics included

forecasting, inventory management, material requirements planning, production activity control,

and just-in-time systems. For each topic, the intent was to introduce the student to the concepts

and to help them appreciate the interrelationships within the food and agribusiness supply chain.

The final food and agribusiness course, The Macroeconomic and Trade Environment of the

Global Food System, was delivered by Dr. Wally Tyner. The objective of this course was to

expose students to the nature and importance of linkages between agriculture, international

markets, and global macroeconomic policies. During the course, the students examined theories

and methods that helped them to quantify these linkages and helped them to evaluate the

consequences of alternative policies. The focus was on adopting economic analysis as a tool for

understanding these issues from a managerial perspective.

Food and Agricultural Products to China: A program developed for Yuan Import

Company The Center provided an orientation and overview program for one of China‘s most

successful importers of commodity minerals. The Yuan Import Company sought to expand the

firm‘s understanding of the U.S. food system and to expand the firm‘s imports to include U.S.

food and agricultural products. The purpose of the program was to acquaint managers with the

U.S. agricultural system, and to focus on value-added agricultural products produced in Indiana.

The Center coordinated activities with the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and Purdue‘s

Extension New Ventures Team and hosted principals of the Chinese firm at meetings with ISDA

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representatives and on-site discussions with representatives of food and agribusiness firms in

Indiana.

Key Account Management Key Account Management is a program with particular draw among

field-level sales professionals. The activities of key account managers more closely mirror

management activities than traditional selling activities—utilizing strategic planning, resource

allocation, information analysis, formal structured planning, and use of sophisticated selling

tools. Complex customers report that communication between team members and support

systems is the biggest challenge they face. This program discusses many of these issues through

case scenarios and real-life examples for organizations inside and outside of agriculture.

Kentucky Agricultural Leadership Program: A Focus on Business Strategy The Kentucky

Agricultural Leadership Program was designed for individuals who want to be on the cutting

edge of decisions that affect agriculture, rural communities and society in the 21st century. The

state-wide agricultural leadership program for farmers and agribusiness professionals focuses on

leadership skills, economic subject matter (such as trade, globalization, state and federal farm

policy, etc.) and enhancing participants‘ management skills. Purdue agribusiness instructors

developed one of the 10 seminars that focused on business strategy, understanding customers and

stakeholders, creating a brand and thinking strategically about the future for a business/farming

operation, organization or community. Participants used a broad spectrum of case studies to

discuss concepts and think about what it means to take a strategic approach to decision making.

Ideas were generated from cases that examined the marketplace outlook of MBC Farms all the

way to Harley Davidson.

Midwest Food and Agribusiness Executive Seminar The Midwest Food and Agribusiness

Executive Seminar, sponsored by Purdue University and Wells Fargo Bank, is targeted to

chairmen, CEOs, and senior decision makers of Midwest food and agribusinesses. Through case

studies, industry panels, and faculty and industry speakers, this three-day seminar challenges

participants to analyze critical industry issues and give thoughtful consideration to the strategic

response needed at the industry and firm level. It also allows participants to have meaningful

discussions with a group of peers regarding domestic and global issues affecting the food and

agricultural marketplace. In March 2010, a group of 55 key stakeholders—from the farm gate to

the retail shelf—attended the center‘s second offering of this seminar. The executives immersed

themselves in the challenges facing the value chain and the strategic responses needed, in

addition to examining concepts and best practices. Case studies for 2010 focused on navigating

through food safety challenges; building a sustainability strategy; branding in the agronomy

business; managing through commodity price volatility from multiple perspectives in the

fertilizer supply chain; and the role of government, industry, and producers in the dairy industry.

The program featured several keynote speakers, including Peter Zeihan from STRATFOR and

Robert Berendes, global head of business development at Syngenta AG. Chris Policinski, CEO

of Land O‘Lakes, gave the executive keynote speech on the final day of the program.

Precision Selling: Building Relationships with Large Farmers Because large farmers have

needs in areas that extend beyond the basic products, services, and information provided to

traditional customers, this program specifically addressed strategies for working with large

producers in the evolving agricultural marketplace. Participants discussed the complexities of

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working with large growers and explored the areas of strategic planning, resource allocation,

information analysis, and the use of sophisticated selling tools. Throughout the program, each

sales professional developed their own strategic action plan that focused on building a stronger

relationship with one of their target key accounts. The program also included a producer panel

that enabled the group to get a real-world look into a commercial producer‘s specific needs and

expectations.

Sales Management and Leadership Prioritizing relationships based on opportunities for profit

has broad ramifications for how salespeople spend their time and build value with customers.

Sales Management and Leadership focused on the implications for managers leading this

process. The program gave participants the opportunity to interact with one another and industry

experts to learn advanced sales management and coaching techniques. Instructors used case

studies to demonstrate the application and use of ideas and strategies generated throughout the

program. They also used an interactive ―speed coaching‖ exercise to give participants a chance

to practice some of the concepts they discussed in the classroom.

Structuring Decisions: Innovating Through Turbulence This three-day program introduced

and illustrated tools that managers can use to analyze decisions at their companies. Instructors

led participants through a process of bringing definition and structure to decision-making where

uncertainty is a given and innovation is a mandate. Through lecture, case study analysis, and

decision-making tools, such as heat mapping and risk scorecarding, the group developed a

reasoned, systematic approach to making important decisions and mitigating downside risk.

Participants also had the option to apply some of the tools discussed in class to a project of their

own. For those who chose to create a personal case study, the instructors spent one-on-one time

during breakfast each morning discussing the successes and/or difficulties they were having

applying the tools to their projects.

Strategic AgriMarketing Understanding the relationships between all the elements in the

marketing mix is a key to success in agri-marketing, as well as a key objective of the Strategic

AgriMarketing program. Designed to provide agri-marketers with new ways to analyze

marketing issues, this program placed significant focus on strategy and decision-making tools.

Instructors Dave Downey, executive director of the center, and Tom Funk, professor emeritus of

agricultural marketing at the University of Guelph, led participants through the use of cutting-

edge marketing tools that were demonstrated through case studies based on actual agribusiness

situations. Participants worked through five case studies during the weeklong program. The agri-

marketers also tested their strategic plans and assumptions by learning how to model marketing

decisions using popular software that is easily transferred back to the work environment.

Retail Executive Management Forum The Retail Executive Management Forum brings

retailers from across North America and beyond together to discuss current issues. Invitations are

intentionally limited to executives of top retail agronomic businesses who the center believes to

be aggressive, out-of-the-box thinkers and who are highly respected by their peers. Facilitated by

Purdue agribusiness faculty, industry guests bring real-world perspectives to in-depth discussions

among a group of executives that share challenges. The 2010 forum included a panel discussion

on economic and industry trends with three leaders who shared their perspective on current and

future market environment opportunities and risks. Economists on the panel included Jason

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Henderson, vice president and branch executive for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City;

Dave Asbridge, president of NPKFAS; and Ed Cooper, senior vice president of food and

agribusiness at Wells Fargo Bank. Participants also explored why sustainability has become such

a hot issue in agribusiness and its implications for the retail sector. During the second day of the

forum, Purdue faculty led an interactive discussion based on Gottfredson and Schaubert‘s

popular and practical book The Breakthrough Imperative: How the Best Managers Get

Outstanding Results. The program concluded with a session on leadership challenges in the ag

retail industry.

Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Recipient Commercialization Training The

objective of this project was to create and deliver Developing a Commercialization Plan, an

integrated, distance-based course, for small business decision makers who received Phase I

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding from the Cooperative State Research,

Education and Extension Service and would be applying for Phase II. A commercialization plan

is now required in the SBIR Phase II application. Course components consisted of a central Web

site, downloadable lectures, two live Webinars, commercialization plan review and a course

evaluation.

The course was structured into content segments, each focusing on a commercialization plan

component. Each segment (Introduction, Industry Analysis/Porter‘s Five Forces Analysis,

Competitor Analysis, Defining Your Target Market, Penetrating Your Target Market: Pricing

Strategies, Developing Your Financial Plan, Protecting Your Intellectual Property) was designed

to be completed in approximately 90 minutes. It involved reading the materials for that week,

listening to a downloadable lecture and completing assigned activities. Course content was

initially developed in consultation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture SBIR staff through

Siva Sureshwaran, then national program leader.

The course ran from July 2007 to January 2008, with 70 of the 100 Phase I recipients

participating. Out of these 70 decision makers, 31 commercialization plans were submitted for

review. In addition, 21 course participants scheduled conference calls with Joan Fulton or Maria

Marshall to discuss their plan and how to improve it. This course was initially offered jointly

between CAB and AICC/New Ventures. It is now being offered by AICC/New Ventures.

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Corporate Partnerships

ARA Leadership Academy The ARA Management Academy, a partnership between the

Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) and the center, filled to capacity as leaders

from retail location sacross the country looked to Purdue for management expertise. First

offered in 2007, the academy is designed as a general management program for retail

managers who provide leadership within their organizations. At its core, the program

helps participants sharpen their management, leadership, and decision-making skills

through sessions focused on understanding industry trends, discussing sales and

marketing best practices, examining profitability strategies, managing the people side of

the business, and evaluating operational strategies. Faculty members from Purdue‘s

Department of Agricultural Economics and College of Technology engaged the group

with presentations on financial management, operations and logistics, creating and

delivering value, thinking strategically, competitive positioning, and organizational

leadership. The program format also encouraged participating leaders to network and

share ideas with their peers from across different market areas. ARA advocates before

Congress and the Executive Branch on behalf of the agricultural retail and distribution

industry. The academy is part of the organization‘s Excellence in Management Initiative,

which provides educational opportunities that will help retail businesses achieve long

term success.

ASTA Management Academy Skills Committee is charged with providing education

and professional development programs in the area of business management for more

than 800 seed industry members. Through its partnership with ASTA, the center helps

serve this industry need by offering the ASTA Management Academy. The academy is

based on a set of core courses in finance, strategy, marketing, and organizational

leadership. It is the center‘s longest-running program and celebrated its 23rd year in

2010. Each year, the faculty and staff work to blend current issues and trends into the

courses to create a comprehensive, timely experience for participants. Hands-on

exercises, case studies, and small-group work help bring relevance to the topics and

concepts taught. The case studies focus specifically on the seed industry in an effort to

enhance learning and understanding. Participants at this year‘s academy explored key

business topics, and the discussions on finance, sales and marketing, supply chain, human

resources, and research and development led participants to think about the cross

business implications of the decisions that they make. Purdue agribusiness faculty and

industry experts, including Jerry Monk, ASTA chairman and president of Warner Seeds

in Hereford, Texas, used real-world knowledge to cover objectives that included the

changing agribusiness environment, implications for seed companies in the future, and

strategies and tools to help make decisions and keep businesses profitable and growing.

ASTA Executive Management Forum The objective of the ASTA Executive

Management Forum was to bring together a key group of executives to further develop

and deepen relationships with industry colleagues; bring new strategic thinking resources

to the table; broaden perspectives; and create a venue for personal and business

development. The program armed participants with insights, concepts, and knowledge

that benefit them in a rapidly changing marketplace. It was also an environment for idea

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creation – ideas instrumental for tackling issues the industry will face in the next five

years. The participants represented all sectors of the seed industry and all sizes of

companies, as well as all geographical areas of the U.S. The Forum created an

environment for sharing ideas, discussion, and interaction with a group of senior leaders

responsible for moving their companies forward in a very complex marketplace. Key

influencers from all segments of the seed industry engaged in a discussion of topics

ranging from big picture trade policy issues to decision making under uncertainty to

effective leadership for the senior manager. In the 2006 program, executive-level guest

speakers from John Deere, Bunge, Proctor & Gamble, and Willis and Stein contributed

insight and perspective from outside of the seed industry.

EMERGE: A management and leadership development experience for CGB

Enterprises emerging leaders The Center developed and delivered a custom

management and leadership development experience in collaboration with a new client,

CGB Enterprises, Inc., an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and

transportation industries. The result of this collaboration is EMERGE, an educational

experience created for individuals who have shown promise as emerging CGB leaders.

The program is designed to help these individuals hone their business, leadership, and

decision-making skills in order to prepare them for the more diverse and demanding

general management responsibilities and the leadership roles they will face in the future.

In Fiscal 2006, three of four total sessions were successfully delivered by Purdue staff

and faculty.

CIH: Agriculture in the 21st Century Agriculture in the 21st Century was a two-day

program conducted for the Case IH Agricultural Equipment senior management team.

Agribusiness faculty as well as a guest commercial producer provided the background for

discussions that examined the global agribusiness climate, trends driving the North

American agricultural marketplace, the large producer commercial as a target group of

customers, and leveraging brand value in the field. The program served as an important

senior management team retreat for a newly appointed president and key staff.

CNH - Business Comprehension Training: The World We Face Business

Comprehension Training: The World We Face was developed and conducted for a group

of high-potential CNH Global employees with less than three years‘ experience in the

equipment industry. The program focused on providing a broad overview of the North

American agricultural marketplace, including factors that influence a farmer‘s decision to

buy capital equipment, parts and service. The selected managers spent one day

participating in intensive sessions that included a thought-provoking view of the current

and anticipated agricultural marketplace and an in-depth look at the way farmers make

buying decisions. The second day included a facilitated farm tour that allowed the group

to better understand the decision making process of the large, commercial farmer.

Deere Parts and Service The parts and equipment areas represent potential business

opportunities for John Deere dealers and for Deere as a manufacturing organization. Parts

and service have historically been over-the-counter types of revenue generators.

Recently, the emphasis on establishing deeper relationships with growers by emphasizing

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value has meant that more dealers are bringing parts and service value to the relationship

through on-farm visits. This creates some challenges within the culture of the dealer

organization and requires new levels of customer interaction skills for dealer personnel

charged with initiating these relationships. Center faculty and staff members worked with

leaders of the John Deere Training Center to create a two-day module in which dealer

parts and service staff could deepen their understanding of field-level sales and marketing

approaches. The program was piloted on the Purdue campus with dealer staff and a

Train-the-Trainer section was conducted at the Training Center in Lenexa, Kansas.

Materials development included video production and a unique partnership with

educational resource design completed by Center staff.

Pioneer: Preparing for the Future Ag Marketplace The Heartland Management Team

of Pioneer Hi-Bred International held their annual area team meeting in a professional

development workshop at Purdue University. Topics and discussions focused around

helping the sales management team think broadly about drivers of the agricultural

marketplace and strengthen their strategic thinking, management, and leadership skills.

Center faculty led discussions around successful strategies for crop input suppliers, forces

shaping agriculture, U.S. commodity farm policy, and key account management. Faculty

from the Department of Agronomy at Purdue University led an open forum to talk about

and answer questions relating to current issues with soybean and corn acres.

Royster-Clark: Growing Excellence: A Strategic Management Development

Program The Growing Excellence program was designed to build upon the existing

managerial experience of the Royster-Clark regional sales directors. This program

offered an important opportunity to spend time away from the pressures of the day-to-day

work environment and focus on key concepts, as well as hands-on tools beneficial for

looking at the business strategically. At the core of the program was a practical

examination of strategic, financial, and marketing management that included exercises to

address issues Royster-Clark faces in the marketplace.

Business of Tomatoes: A marketing series sponsored by Syngenta The Business of

Tomatoes workshop is the direct result of Purdue‘s success in working with Syngenta‘s

marketing organization and their public relations agency, Gibbs & Soell. In Fiscal 2006,

Purdue staff and faculty deepened this existing relationship, expanding the offering of a

workshop originally designed for U.S. potato growers, and designed a similar workshop

for significant U.S. tomato growers. This program is a vehicle by which Syngenta was

able to provide elite customers unique and important information of strategic benefit, and

thereby enhance and differentiate the mutual relationship.

The content focus of this educational effort was placed on the tomato grower‘s operation

from a business management perspective. In the workshop, participants discussed the

strategic, financial, and human resource management aspects of running their businesses,

and were provided with concepts and tools they could readily apply. In total, the

workshop was a unique and uncommon opportunity to dedicate time, thinking broadly

about the strategic, financial and human resource management areas of their businesses—

without distraction.

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Business of Potatoes: A marketing series sponsored by Syngenta In an effort to build

and deepen relationships with key grower customers, Syngenta, working through its

public relations agency, brought this opportunity to Purdue. The Purdue-developed

workshop offered important potato grower customers the opportunity to focus on

strategic and financial management issues important to the operation. Strategic, Human

Resource, and Financial Management were at the core of this seminar, surrounded by a

set of topics of special interest to U.S. potato growers. A case study developed around a

potato operation was utilized for discussion of issues including business expansion and

diversification. The resulting educational workshop served as a vehicle through which

Syngenta was able to provide elite customers unique and important information of

strategic benefit, and thereby enhance and differentiate their mutual relationship.

Keithly Williams - Field Marketing: A Strategic Approach to Selling Key Accounts

Field Marketing: A Strategic Approach to Selling Key Accounts was a custom eight-week

program developed for sales staff at Keithly-Williams Seeds. As agricultural markets

become more fragmented into different segments with vastly different needs, and as

customer sizes continue to increase, it is imperative that companies develop strategies to

deal with these changes. This course involved focusing resources on segments that are

most important, identifying specific high potential prospects within these segments, and

tailoring and delivering ‗value bundles‘ for these key accounts.

The program introduced participants to topics in strategic selling, marketing, and time

management. The goals of the program included: teaching the sales staff how to build

better and more profitable long-term relationships; understanding the importance of

honesty and integrity in the sales process; and evaluating an account‘s business and

personal needs.

The Field Marketing course was organized into eight distance-delivered modules that

included lectures, activities, field assignments, interaction with instructors and other

participants. Over the eight weeks, each participant developed a detailed field marketing

action strategy for a key account. This was done in conjunction with the participant‘s

supervisor. It was expected that the field marketing plan would be fully ‗actionable‘ and

implemented during and following the course of study.

Final course evaluation was based on accumulated evaluation of assignments, field

activities and the quality of the Field Marketing Strategy Action Plan developed for the

targeted key account.

GSI Group: Empowering Future Leaders through Management Development Faced

with a consolidating market and all-time high commodity prices, the GSI Group has

grown their operation significantly over the past two years. This growth and marketplace

change has spurred senior managers to evaluate how consumer buying behaviors have

evolved and what impact that will have on their industry. They also examined the

competencies needed by key district managers who will play a critical role in the future

success of the company‘s Grain Systems Division.

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As a result, the center teamed with GSI to create an intense management development

program to increase the business savvy of the targeted managers and key dealers by

improving their business-planning skills. The program created a common language for

dealers and district managers, while increasing their understanding of an ever-evolving

marketplace. Through this process, managers worked to become a resource for their

dealers in facilitating the development of useful planning tools, while at the same time

deepening their relationships with dealers.

The centerpiece of the program was a case study based on a GSI dealer. This case was

designed with modeling capability and close integration of GSI‘s future dealer

certification process. It included a mechanism to bring a dealer face to the case —

through live interaction in which dealer personnel representing the case addressed

questions.

Beck’s Superior Hybrids: Marketing Financial Analysis and Precision Selling

Workshop

The complexity of farm operations and an ever-changing marketplace requires a unique

approach to understanding how a seed company continues to provide and enhance value

to key customers. Larger producers have needs in areas that extend far beyond the basic

products, services, and information provided to smaller, traditional customers. This

workshop addressed strategies for the Beck‘s Superior Hybrids‘ sales organization as

they pursued key customer accounts and developed new customer relationships.

As Beck‘s prepared for their 2009 sales season, the Marketing Financial Analysis and

Precision Selling Workshop allowed the entire sales team to focus on tools, ideas, and

product knowledge needed for an effective sales approach with customers. Key to this

workshop was a focus on field marketing—how to approach the sales process with a

marketing mentality. Complementing the field marketing topic was a look at precision

selling in terms of what it takes to build the right customer relationships and the right

value proposition. A session on fundamental financials furthered the sales team‘s

knowledge about how their agreements with customers affect the bottom line.

Precision Selling at Church & Dwight: Building Relationships with Large Farmers

In 2008, Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition, a subsidiary of Church & Dwight, moved

forward with a strategic approach to their marketplace that included the careful building

of the Dairy Enterprise and Channel sales teams. As a result of carefully building the

sales organization with the right people—in the right seats—they turned to the center‘s

Precision Selling program to examine how they could differentiate themselves in the

marketplace and truly provide value to their large, sophisticated customers. The Purdue

workshop intended to help the sales teams better understand large producers and their

decision-making processes, approach the sales process in a broader and more strategic

way, and provide tools that could be quickly implemented after the program.

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Instructors David and Scott Downey helped to deepen the sales organization‘s

understanding of how sales teams work together so that the concepts of precision selling

can be applied and incorporated into the sales process. The instructors also led an

interview with a large dairy producer and a nutritional expert to help participants think

about the impact that influencers have on the sales process. The university classroom

setting provided an open environment in which to discuss the decision-making processes

of these guest speakers.

Farm Credit Services of Mid-America: Making Financial Decisions in Your Farm

Business

The strong partnership between the center and Farm Credit Services of Mid-America has

resulted in three programs offered annually to audiences that include Farm Credit

customers, as well as financial service officers and business analysts. The center

delivered Making Financial Decisions in Your Farm Business in Trafalgar, Indiana, to

Farm Credit customers from the southern areas of Indiana.

The program provides financial management information and new methods and tools that

enable customers to improve the financial management of their farm operation. The

program is also designed to help strengthen the relationship between Farm Credit

representatives and their customers.

Farm Credit Services of Mid-America: Understanding Key Customer Accounts

The center designed Understanding Key Customer Accounts to enable financial services

officers and business analysts at Farm Credit Services of Mid-America to better serve the

needs of their key customers and to strengthen their business relationships. The program

provides insight and information from both a strategic-directions and financial-

profitability perspective, while considering how a lender makes decisions from a debt-

servicing perspective. This program is delivered annually for both new and tenured

personnel.

Focusing on managerial finance and key account management, this weeklong program

devotes several days to the decision-making process from the farmer/customer viewpoint.

Taking on the mindset of their key customers, participants work through a case study and

other program exercises and discussion questions to make financial and strategic

decisions while standing ―in the farmer‘s shoes.‖ Participants apply this insight to

managing their key customer accounts in the field, where their added value can result in

enhanced selling success.

Precision Selling at Willard Agri-Services: Building Relationships with Large

Farmers The complexity of large farm operations requires a unique approach to understanding

how agribusinesses provide value. Large producers have needs in areas that extend far

beyond the basic products, services, and information provided to traditional customers.

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This program specifically addressed strategies for Willard Agri-Service‘s sales team to

use while working with their large commercial producers and their dealers in the

evolving agricultural marketplace.

Participants explored the complexities of working with large growers and farmers and

discussed the ways in which these customers are distinctive and unlike others.

Salespeople must explore the needs of these farmers and influencers in intentional ways

to establish actionable goals. Managing these key accounts requires a diverse skill set.

Willard‘s sales team, under the direction of David and Scott Downey, delved into the

areas of strategic planning, resource allocation, information analysis, formal structured

planning, and the use of sophisticated selling tools. This program was designed to guide

the group through the process of establishing a framework for handling key sales

accounts.

The DMI Large Herd Dairy Producer Relationship Development Effort: Adding

Value through Defined Service and Knowledge Gaps The demographics of dairy

production are changing rapidly to a scenario where 10% of all dairy operations produce

80% of the milk. Large herd producers are complex, with layers of management, unique

financial pressures, sophistication, and varying levels of industry engagement. This

complexity requires communication methods that differ from traditional mass market

approaches that DMI utilizes to reach traditional producers. As the gap between large and

traditional producers widens, the need for unique marketing approaches to meet the needs

of each segment increases.

The DMI Large Herd Dairy Producer Relationship Development Effort was developed in

response to the marketing challenges being faced in the dairy industry. There are four

phases to program: Preparation, Discovery, Development, and Implementation. The

multi-session program kicked off in May of 2007 with a session focused on discovery

planning. The program will continue in the winter of 2007 to help the group reach the

objectives of developing knowledge and confidence in serving large producers. The focus

of this effort is in developing specific activities that will build strategies for serving

individual large producers and confidence in deepening these complex relationships.

Bunge - Focusing in the Field: Developing Co-Created Value for Customer Farmers

and Leading it in the Field Grain marketing specialists from Bunge North America

gathered on campus to develop strategies for better understanding large commercial

producers. Hands on exercises allowed participants to segment and prioritize their market

area as well as develop a key account plan. After classroom sessions, the group worked

in a team effort to further develop a strategy and set goals for the following year.

ALPs (Syngenta) Agribusiness Leadership Plus at Purdue In fiscal year 2010, the

center‘s faculty and staff continued their decade-long partnership with Syngenta, a global

leader in the crop protection and high-value commercial seeds market. Patterned after an

MBA and customized to Syngenta‘s businesses and markets, ALPs is a non-degree, 16-

month program that focuses on management and leadership needs for future positions. It

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is offered from Syngenta Learning and Development in partnership with the center, and

more than 150 Syngenta employees have completed the program.

Throughout the 16 months, the class participates in a series of core courses, special-issue

sessions, business simulations, field experiences, and team research projects—each

contributing to the aggregate goal of diversifying the employees‘ thought processes and

enabling them to more effectively approach general management challenges and

opportunities.

Bayer CropScience: Serving the Needs of Today’s Large Commercial Producer

through Precision Selling This program specifically addressed strategies for Bayer

CropScience‘s sales team to use while working with large commercial producers and

dealers in the evolving agricultural marketplace. It guided the team through the process of

establishing a framework for handling key sales accounts by understanding the

customer‘s values, goals, and needs.

Purdue faculty helped participants explore the complexities of working with large

growers and farmers and discussed the ways in which these customers are unlike others.

Managing these key accounts requires a diverse skill set. Bayer‘s sales team discussed the

areas of strategic planning, resource allocation, information analysis, formal structured

planning, and the use of sophisticated selling tools.

Executive Institute for Commercial Producers Held in Louisville, Kentucky, on the

site of the National Farm Machinery Show, the Executive Institute for Commercial

Producers (EICP) Alumni Workshop drew 30 commercial producers, who are also

customers of Farm Credit Services of Mid-America. Purdue faculty led discussions of the

economic outlook for farming in 2010 and the effects of government policy on

agricultural operations. One of the highlights featured guest speaker Professor Wes

Jamison of the Palm Beach Atlantic University, who presented information about

extreme animal rights activists and examined how commercial producers can respond

effectively. All of the sessions were highly interactive and provided opportunities for

participant questions and debate. Alumni participants also spent time strengthening their

friendships and business relationships that were forged during the EICP program. The

center delivered the original EICP workshop in 2001 and has continued to work closely

with Farm Credit Services of Mid-America to provide an alumni program each year.

Independent Professional Seed Association Annual Conference and Trade Show Taking an innovative approach to its custom-programming capabilities, the center

developed and delivered general and break-out sessions for the Independent Professional

Seed Association‘s (IPSA) 21st Annual Conference and Trade Show. By partnering with

IPSA‘s board of directors and business development committee, the center created a

program that benefited IPSA members and offered educational opportunities for all levels

of management represented at the conference, which drew almost 300 attendees.

Professors Mike Boehlje and Allan Gray kicked off the conference by providing their

perspective on domestic and global challenges facing independent seed companies. The

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afternoon was filled with informative workshops in four key tracks that match the

functional areas of most seed companies–owners, sales, human resources/information

technology, and production. Attendees selected one or several tracks to attend, based

upon their job responsibilities and interests.

IPSA President David Hingst with Hoegemeyer Hybrids in Hooper, Nebraska, served as

chairman of the planning committee and offered this assessment: ―This partnership

delivered great content to our members at a level they can benefit from directly and

immediately.‖

Food and Agribusiness Market Experience The Food and Agribusiness Market

Experience (FAME) is an intense professional development opportunity offered jointly

by three leading New Zealand universities—Otago, Lincoln, and Massey—that exposes

participants to the food value chain in Europe, Japan, China, and the United States.

The group‘s U.S. visit started at Santa Clara University in California and included site

visits to Whole Foods, Safeway, and Costco. They then traveled to the Purdue campus,

where they explored the heartland of commodity agriculture at a farm visit and learned

about U.S. agricultural policy, the global impact of biofuels, and developments in the

soya industry from Purdue University agricultural economists. The group also spent part

of an afternoon working through a case study with students enrolled in the MS-MBA in

Food and Agribusiness Management program. The FAME participants spent their last

morning at Fonterra in Chicago before leaving for Europe.

The weeklong program in the United States allowed participants to: (1) observe different

approaches to management practices in U.S. companies; (2) understand the food value

chain in the American marketplace; (3) look at market access issues; (4) observe

international competition; and (5) gain insight into best practices in the U.S. marketplace.

Land O’Lakes Executive Agribusiness Program The Land O‘Lakes Executive Agribusiness Program (LEAP) is a management and

leadership development program that is designed, developed, and delivered in close

partnership with Land O‘Lakes, Inc. LEAP participants are high-talent managers from

local cooperatives that are members of the regional Land O‘Lakes cooperative system.

The program is patterned after an MBA and customized specifically to enhance business

management competencies to levels necessary to succeed in senior leadership and CEO

positions at Land O‘Lakes member cooperatives.

LEAP is comprised primarily of a set of core management courses that include strategy,

finance, organizational development and leadership, sales and marketing, and economics,

trade, and policy. In addition, the curriculum includes field visit experiences, advanced

case study analysis, special issues sessions, and a Pinnacle Team Project that allows the

application of core content learned in the classroom to each participant‘s cooperative.

Designed as an 18-month program, LEAP includes seven sessions that are delivered both

on-site as a classroom residency and online using distance-education technology.

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During fiscal year 2010, LEAP participants gathered at Purdue for their third session,

which focused on growth and innovation. Purdue faculty and industry guests delivered

presentations on capital budgeting and financial analysis, growth through merger and

acquisition, and the United States agricultural outlook. One evening during the residency,

the class had an opportunity to interact with Land O‘Lakes CEO Chris Policinski and two

cooperative CEOs during a fireside chat at the Courtyard Marriott in Lafayette.

Argentina served as the location for the program‘s fifth residency session in March 2010.

The center relied on its partnership with the University of Austral to successfully plan

this residency. During the trip, LEAP participants met with Argentine agribusiness

managers in Buenos Aires and Rosario and discussed opportunities and challenges in

their respective countries. The group discovered that they were more alike than different,

but the differences were very important. Exploring these differences and the reasons for

them was a key focus of the residency.

The program schedule in Argentina included field visits, tours, and interactive

management presentations and discussions with several agribusiness companies of

Argentina, including the Association de Cooperatives Argentinas (the oldest national

cooperative in Argentina) and a visit to a cooperative retailer in the small town of

Conesa, where the challenge of recruiting qualified professionals to the small town

environment was found to be a common challenge that the group enjoyed discussing. The

LEAP group also spent time with managers of Pioneer, John Deere, Rosario Board of

Trade, and Terminal 6 (a partnership of Bunge and AGD).

The NOV–Purdue Sales Management Program: Building World-Class Capabilities The NOV–Purdue Sales Management Program: Building World-Class Capabilities The

center, in collaboration with the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, created

this program for National Oilwell Varco (NOV), a worldwide leader in the design,

manufacture, and sale of comprehensive systems, components, and services to the

upstream oil and gas industry. The nine-month program is designed for NOV sales and

sales management professionals who have shown promise as emerging or current leaders.

Participants are nominated to attend the program. Through three on-site sessions,

distance-delivered coursework and assignments, a global account project, and one-on-one

coaching from Purdue experts, the NOV sales professionals enhance their advanced

management skills. The center first offered this program in 2008.

Program instructors help the participants prepare for the future by challenging and

motivating them to reach sales goals that stretch their current level of performance.

Program content focuses on five key themes: Leading NOV‘s Growth—Strategic

Approaches in the Field; Creating Competitive Advantage—Managing NOV‘s

Leadership Position; Growing Financial Savvy and Understanding—Financial Tools for

Sales Manager Impact; Developing Leadership Ability—Individual Growth and Leading

the Team; and Building Value in Teams—The Global Account Projects.

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Pioneer Webinar Series: Building Success Through Management and Leadership

Development Pioneer Hi-Bred International‘s highest-performing agencies had an

opportunity to participate in Building Success Through Management and Leadership

Development, a six-part Webinar series designed and delivered by the center. Pioneer

offered the series to the agencies that won the company‘s Platinum Club Award and

Executive Club Award for their sales efforts. The company‘s main objective was to

enable agencies to more effectively approach general management challenges by

diversifying thought processes and enhancing their business management competencies.

With that objective in mind, the center focused on honing the agencies‘ business,

leadership, and decision-making skills by refining their understanding of core business

functions and the linkages between them.

One of the Webinars featured Professor Rodney Vandeveer from the Department of

Organizational Leadership and Supervision discussing leadership, personnel

management, and the many elements of managing people to build a more effective

enterprise. He explored in-depth topics that included job descriptions, setting

expectations, recruiting, interviewing, hiring, selection and salary setting, and evaluating

employee performance. Professor Mike Boehlje gave the final lecture of the series,

Preparing for Success in 2010, which focused on the current economic conditions and

implications for the upcoming year. Boehlje also hosted a discussion with four of

Pioneer‘s most successful agencies from across North America, who shared some of their

secrets of success.

By delivering the program online, participants avoided time away from home and the

office, while still engaging in a valuable educational experience. Additionally, this

anytime, anywhere model allowed participants the flexibility to participate in the live

event or watch the recorded session after the fact.

Syngenta Seeds: Building Customer Relationships The center hosted a group from

Syngenta Seeds for a sales program and internal meeting at Purdue‘s Beck Agricultural

Center, located at the Agronomy Center for Research and Education, in January.

Professor Scott Downey led the program and focused the day on the value of service,

trust, and building relationships with customers. This program was part of the Syngenta

team‘s sales season kick-off. Some of the topics discussed during the one-day session

related to working with large commercial producers and other concepts presented in

Precision Selling: Building Relationships with Large Farmers, which the center offers

annually as part of its open enrollment program portfolio.

Select Sires: Thinking Strategically for the Future A group of managers and high-

level executives from Select Sires Inc. and its cooperatives across the country came to

Purdue‘s Dauch Alumni Center to attend Thinking Strategically for the Future, a program

developed specifically for the company. The managers took part in strategy analysis,

discussed possible scenarios and their implications on the dairy industry, and developed a

company action plan with both short- and long-term objectives. David Thorbahn,

president and CEO of Select Sires Inc., also discussed the future of dairy cattle breeding

with the group.

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Center instructors Allan Gray and Nicole Olynk partnered with Mike Schutz and Terry

Stewart, professors in Purdue‘s Department of Animal Science, to create the program and

ensure it met the company‘s objectives.

Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc. is North America‘s largest artificial

insemination organization and is comprised of 10 farmer-owned-and-controlled

cooperatives. The company provides highly fertile semen, as well as herd and

reproductive management services and programs, to dairy and beef producers across the

globe.

John Deere: Financial Decision Making for Field Managers More than providing

information that field managers must utilize in order to monitor performance, financial

analysis tells a story. John Deere field managers spent two-and-a-half intense days on

campus developing the ability to translate the quantitative aspects of financial analysis

into a story that becomes a useful planning tool and helps them deepen their relationships

with their dealers. As they worked through a uniquely developed case study, the field

managers learned how to ―think like a CFO,‖ which will help them communicate with

financial experts in dealerships.

In order to develop confidence in their abilities, participants created a presentation that

they would make to the dealer represented in the case study. Delivering these

presentations truly translated what they learned into terms and advice that will be

meaningful to the dealers they work with in their territories.

The center and John Deere first offered Financial Decision Making in 2005, and more

than 200 managers have successfully completed the course.

Website: https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab/

https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab/

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XI: CENTER FOR GLOBAL TRADE ANALYSIS PURDUE (GTAP)

The Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), now in its 20th

year, engages a worldwide

network of over 10,000 participants representing 164 nations, of which approximately

30% reside in developing countries. With intellectual oversight by a 27-member

international Advisory Board, GTAP is widely regarded as the premiere source of

globally consistent economic data that underpins many of contemporary quantitative

analyses of global economic issues.

The Center’s mission is to provide leadership in economic policy analysis through better

data, fostering collaboration, and research.

Among the many ways network members support, and their organizations are enriched

by GTAP activities, are through the GTAP technical and working paper series,

participation in live forums, the Annual Conference, and short courses in Global Trade

Analysis. Network agencies are from academia, consulting firms, financial institutions,

government, and non-governmental organizations.

GTAP’s Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, an annual international event

since 1998, promotes the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative

analysis of global economic issues with particular emphasis on applied general

equilibrium methods, data, and application. The average attendance is 200 economic

researchers and policy makers from more than 40 nations including 15-20% annually

from third world countries. It has been held at Purdue University and around the world

co-hosted by local GTAP network organizations in Denmark, Australia, Taiwan, The

Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and in recent years by United Nations agencies in Malaysia,

Ethiopia, Chile and Finland. Future conferences will be hosted in Switzerland and China.

The Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis introduces participants to a

standardized framework for conducting global trade analysis in an applied general

equilibrium setting. Since 1993, more than 600 individuals have attended. It has been

held in the United States, Germany, South Africa, The Netherlands, United Kingdom,

Argentina, Greece, India, Ethiopia, and Thailand.

Biennial Short Course in Dynamic Global Trade Analysis is an introduction to the

dynamic model designed for conducting global trade analysis in an applied general

equilibrium setting. Held biennially since 2000 in the United States at Purdue University,

nearly 70 individuals have participated.

GTAP Data Base

The GTAP Data Base is the centerpiece of the project. The GTAP Data Base is a fully

documented, publicly available global data base which contains complete bilateral trade

information, transport and protection linkages among regions for all GTAP commodities.

The latest release, the GTAP 7 Data Base, has a 2004 reference year and includes 57

sectors and 113 regions. On target for a December, 2011 release, is the GTAP 8 Data

Base.

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GTAP Network

The GTAP Network consists of all registered members of the GTAP website. As of July

2011, the network was comprised of just over 10,000 members representing 164

countries. Regional distribution of the network follows:

Region Network Breakdown Per Capita

Africa 10.9% 1.3

Asia 34.7% 0.9

Europe 24.1% 4.1

North America 20.5% 4.2

Oceania 4.0% 12.9

South America 5.9% 1.7

GTAP Contributors

A subset of the GTAP Network are nearly 4,000 professionals that attend a GTAP-

sponsored education program, purchase a GTAP product, and/or serve on a GTAP special

project team or similar. Regional distribution of the contributors is:

Region Network Breakdown Per Capita

Africa 9.3% 0.3

Asia 27.8% 0.2

Europe 28.2% 1.1

North America 23.2% 1.1

Oceania 6.2% 4.6

South America 5.2% 0.3

GTAP Resource Center

The GTAP Resource Center is an online repository of over 2,800 publications submitted

by Network members. A sampling of these resources is:

GTAP Resource Classification Total Resources

GTAP Applications 980

GTAP Technical Papers 30

GTAP Working Papers 62

GTAP Research Memoranda 21

Documentation 311

Conference Papers 1,479

GTAP Consortium and Advisory Board Members

Guidance and financial support for the project is provided by the GTAP Consortium and

its members are represented on the GTAP Advisory Board. The Board advises the

Center on matters of policy, data base development, research agenda, and funding and

consists of almost all of the well renowned international and regionally-based trade

organizations, as well as a large number of national institutions in the USA, Europe and

Japan:

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Agricultural Economics Research Institute (The Netherlands)

Asian Development Bank (Philippines)

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Australia)

Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Information Internationales (France)

Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office (Japan)

Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (United

States)

Electric Power Research Institute (United States)

European Commission (Belgium)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)

Institute of Food and Resource Economics (Denmark)

Inter‐American Development Bank (United States)

International Food Policy Research Institute (United States)

International Trade Centre (Switzerland)

Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (Germany)

Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (United States)

Nathan Associates Inc. (United States)

Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (France)

Productivity Commission (Australia)

Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan)

The World Bank (United States)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Switzerland)

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Ethiopia)

University of Hohenheim (Germany)

US Department of Energy (United States)

US Environmental Protection Agency (United States)

US International Trade Commission (United States)

World Trade Organization (Switzerland)

GTAP Graduate Students

A doctoral degree in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University prepares students for

careers in academia, agribusiness, consulting firms, financial institutions, government, or

non-governmental organizations. Currently, the Center employs six graduate assistants,

which are Ph.D. candidates in the Agricultural Economics or Economics programs, to

assist with research and education programs. Coming from around the world, 35 students

have completed the program and are now employed worldwide, many at GTAP network

member organizations.

Center Staff and Departmental Research Associates The Center employs a team of uniquely talented professionals organized around the

different and complimentary activities undertaken: data, research, education and

outreach. The Center’s staff is:

Angel Aguiar - Research Economist and Data Base Construction Specialist

Meghan Alexander - Program Manager

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Ginger Batta - Communications and Information Technology Specialist

Thomas Chappuis - Economist

Alla Golub - Research Economist

Thomas Hertel - Professor and Executive Director

Csilla Lakatos - Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Robert McDougall - Deputy Director

Monica Miller Woods - Managing Director

Badri Narayanan - Data Base Manager and Research Economist

Jevgenijs Steinbuks - Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Monika Verma - Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Nelson Villoria - Research Assistant Professor

Terrie Walmsley - Director and Research Associate Professor

Intra-department Collaborations

The Center also interacts closely with faculty and staff in the Agricultural Economics

Department. In particular there are a number of Departmental Research Associates who

contribute to the Center activities in the areas of data, research, education and outreach.

Roman Keeney - Departmental Research Associate

Kemal Sarica - Departmental Research Associate

Farzad Taheripour - Departmental Research Associate

Wally Tyner - Senior Policy Advisor and James and Lois Ackerman Professor of


Research Faculty Dr. Terrie Walmsley was appointed one of the newly defined research associate professor

posts at Purdue University, a testimony to the volume and importance of research being

conducted by the Center for Global Trade Analysis.

Areas of Research The Center participates in quantitative economic analysis of pressing global concern in

the areas of trade and development and global environmental issues. Sponsoring

organizations have included the National Science Foundation, World Bank, Food &

Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Electric Power Research Institute, U.S.

Department of Energy, U.S. International Trade Commission, and as well collaborative

projects with research-driven institutions such as Stanford University, Harvard

University, and the University of Chicago.

GTAP Environmental and Energy Research

During the past decade, the Global Trade Analysis Project has filled an important need in

the integrated assessment (IA) community by providing regular updates of world-wide

input-output and bilateral trade data sets with significant disaggregation of regions and

sectors, plus energy volume data; and has also been extended to include land use by agro

ecological zone (AEZ). The GTAP model and database have also been extended to

evaluate costs of abatement and to assess the spill-over effects of greenhouse gases

(GHG) abatement policies via international trade and sectoral interaction. The GTAP

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framework has also been used to assist national agencies in the analysis of the

macroeconomic implications of recently proposed Clean Energy Standard, and to assist

international agencies in the analysis of the impacts of carbon price policies on the global

livestock industries. The GTAP Model and data base were utilized in the analysis of the

indirect land use change (ILUC) impacts of corn ethanol and other food crop based

biofuels for California Air Resource Board (ARB). In April 2009, the ARB adopted a

regulation to implement the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) calling for the reduction

of greenhouse gas emissions from California's transportation fuels by 10% by 2020. In

the Standard, calculations of the carbon intensity of biofuels include emissions from

ILUC calculated with the GTAP model.

Trade, Migration and Poverty

Analysis of international trade issues remains at the forefront of the GTAP project with

analysis of agricultural trade policies, special safeguard mechanisms, non-tariff barriers,

multi-lateral and regional trade agreements. The Center has also extended the GTAP

Modeling framework to include analysis of poverty and migration, and link general

equilibrium with detailed partial equilibrium analysis. The poverty research led to the

development of a book examining the impact of the Doha development round on poverty

in developing countries which was widely cited during the Doha round. The bilateral

labor migration model and data base have been used extensively to examine the impact of

migration in North America and the impact of migration on demographic changes in

Asia.

Capital Flows and Dynamic Modeling

The Dynamic GTAP Model (GDyn) is the result of continuing research aimed at

extending GTAP's standard modeling framework to incorporate capital flows and

dynamic behavior. It includes all the special features of the standard GTAP model, such

as the sophisticated consumer demands and inter-sectoral factor mobility, as well as

incorporating a new treatment of investment behavior and additional accounting relations

to keep track of foreign ownership of capital. This model has been used extensively to

examine the impact of accession to the WTO and of Free Trade agreements in Asia, as

well as in recent work on greenhouse gases (GHG) abatement and land use.

New Ventures

GEOSHARE

Spearheaded by Professors Thomas Hertel and Nelson Villoria from the Center for

Global Trade Analysis, a workshop at Purdue University in May 2011 brought together a

global audience to discuss the use of geospatial data for analysis of the global agricultural

system as a solution. Discussed was a proposed solution to develop a consistent, open-

source, spatially explicit global data set, along with regional companions on agriculture,

resources, and the environment that is maintained by a network of research nodes. The

GEOSHARE kickoff workshop was sponsored by the Global Policy Research Institute

and hosted by the Purdue Climate Change Research Center and the Purdue Center for

Global Food Security.

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Africa Project

Funded by the World Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,

this project aims to improve data and modeling efforts in Africa. The project will include

updating and extending coverage of African economies in the GTAP Data Base, the

development of an Africa-based GTAP model and educational and mentoring

opportunities for African economists.

FACE-IT

A five-year project proposal has been submitted to the National Science Foundation to

develop an infrastructure to perform multiple data manipulation processes related to

climate, economics and impact using various data sources and software through a single

web-based interface termed Framework to Advance Climate, Economic, and Impact

Investigations with Information Technology (FACE-IT). New digital data sources – e.g.

datasets with unprecedented resolution on expected future climate, soil characteristics,

economic activity, historical weather, population, and land-cover – could have a

transformative impact on research, but only if they can be made accessible and usable to

multiple communities. Using shared resources to advance the intellectual community,

Badri Narayanan and Rob McDougall from the Center will be members of a collaborative

research community with representatives from the University of Chicago, Columbia

University, University of Florida, The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and

Improvement Project (AgMIP) and The Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate

and Energy Policy (RDCEP) bringing the project to fruition. Once developed, the openly

archived and freely available data and processing tools of FACE-IT can have a

transformative impact on human-natural systems studies.

Website: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/

https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/

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XII: AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION CENTER

(AICC)/New Ventures

In 2002 Purdue University responded to the need for research, Extension and educational

programs to assist new and small business owners get established and become more

profitable. Purdue’s New Ventures Team was established in 2002, deliberately structured

with membership including County Extension Educators and Campus Extension

Specialists. This mix of team membership allowed for recent research results to be

integrated with grass roots needs to deliver programing for small businesses across the

state. In 2003 Purdue University was successful in being awarded one of ten Innovation

Center Grants from USDA, Rural Development creating the Agricultural Innovation and

Commercialization Center (AICC). Purdue’s AICC/New Ventures Team is an

interdisciplinary team that exemplifies excellence in teamwork, dedication, creativity,

and impact in support of agriculture and economic development. The strategy for

Purdue’s AICC/New Ventures program is multi-faceted, addressing the need for research,

Extension and education through:

Applied Research and Contributions to the Literature: Research projects have analyzed

consumer demand for processed fruit products, the factors that are important for

entrepreneurs to be successful, as well as the potential for value added business ventures

through stochastic simulation. AICC/New Ventures research has explored business

development in the U.S. as well as internationally. Since 2002 this research has resulted

in over 25 published articles in refereed journals and over a dozen M.S. theses and Ph.D.

dissertations.

Extension Publications: to assist in evaluating new business opportunities, a series of 21

new AICC/New Ventures branded publications have been developed and are available in

print form and via the Internet. Worksheets help users apply abstract concepts to their

own business. The series of AICC/New Ventures branded publications are a key resource for businesses. The 2010 downloads report from the Purdue Extension Education Store illustrates the value that users find from these publications. The publication with the most downloads (and almost 10% of all downloads) was “Industry Analysis: The Five Forces” from the New Ventures/AICC series. As measured by number of downloads, three of the top five publications and six of the top eleven publications were from the New Ventures/AICC series.

Workshops and Conferences: Purdue AICC/New Ventures has been active in the

leadership, development and delivery of workshops and conferences throughout Indiana

as well as for national and international audiences, often in partnership with other state

and federal agencies.

SBIR Commercialization Plan Training: Since 2007 AICC/New Ventures has worked

collaboratively with NIFA/USDA to develop and deliver a distance based program to

entrepreneurs who have received a Phase I SBIR project. This project involves an

integrated web page, on-line lectures, webinars and links to key resources and

publications. The users work through this phase of the program at their own pace, gaining

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background knowledge on why it is important to develop a commercialization plan and

how to write one. The second phase of the program involves a multi-stage review of the

draft commercialization plans by the Purdue team. First, one of our graduate students

reviews the plan, followed by either Joan Fulton or Maria Marshall reviewing the plan.

After the plan, containing the comments, has been returned to the entrepreneur one of

Fulton or Marshall has a 30-minute conference call with the entrepreneur and his/her

team. This project has been very successful measured by the increasing number of

participants each year (participation is voluntary), strong evaluation scores as well as an

observation of higher quality commercialization plans over time. The program has

evolved over the 5 years so that an integral part of the program is training and experience

for two graduate students each year.

Web-Based Business Planner: INVenture, https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/planner/ is an

Internet-based business planning tool that guides entrepreneurs through a business

planning process in stages. INVenture received the 2006 Outstanding Agricultural

Economics Extension Website award from the American Agricultural Economics

Association Extension Section and currently has over 6900 registered users.

Individual Consultation: Members of AICC/New Ventures meet with individuals and

groups considering a new business opportunity and help them effectively evaluate these

opportunities.

Undergraduate Teaching: Purdue AICC/New Ventures is active in incorporating research

knowledge and adapting Extension materials to benefit Purdue undergraduate students.

Several undergraduate honors theses have resulted from this program. Purdue students in

the Purdue Entrepreneurship Certificate program use INVenture as a core instructional

tool to generate business plans.

Indiana Marketmaker (http://in.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/) is a vital resource for both small business sellers and purchasers for Indiana agricultural products. In the past year (March 2010- March 2011) there have been:

- 1,002,320 hits to the website

- 40 new producers have registered on Marketmaker, resulting in 355

producers currently registered

- Non-farm food businesses registered on Marketmaker have increased by

5,000 resulting in 20,778 businesses currently registered

- 14 new Farmer’s Markets have registered on Marketmaker, resulting in 117

Farmer’s Markets currently registered

- 1 new winery has registered on Marketmaker, resulting in 14 Wineries

currently registered

Purdue AICC/New Ventures received the Purdue University Cooperative Extension

Specialists Association Team Award in 2006, the Purdue University College of

Agriculture Dean’s Team Award in 2007 and the Agricultural and Applied Economics

Association Extension Group Award for an Outstanding Outreach Program.

https://www.agecon.purdue.edu/planner/

http://in.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/

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XIII: CENTER FOR COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE (CCA)

The mission of the Center for Commercial Agriculture (CCA) is to be the leading

source of management education and knowledge generation for the farmers in the

business of producing the world’s agricultural products. The Center accomplishes this by

conducting applied research on issues important to the business of commercial

agriculture, developing educational programs for farm managers and employees, and

creating unique educational opportunities for undergraduate students who will manage

the farms and agribusinesses of the future.

Brent Gloy is Director of the Center. CCA consists of professionals and faculty

dedicated to producing knowledge for farmers leading today's production agriculture. It

offers workshops, webinars, custom training, field events and online educational

resources to help farmers better manage their agricultural operations. It also creates

educational opportunities for the undergraduate and graduate students who will manage

the farms and agribusinesses of the future.

Founded in 2010, the Center is committed to providing unique, highly-

experiential educational opportunities to the undergraduate students that will manage the

farms and agribusinesses of the future. The educational enrichment opportunities are

designed to add to the traditional educational experience by giving students the ability to

participate in high-impact activities not found in traditional educational programs. One

of the core educational philosophies is that exposure to real-world businesses

opportunities and situations significantly broadens the student experience and cements

class room lessons.

CCA recently announced the establishment of an industry advisory council. The

council will support the center's vision of being a leading source of management

education and knowledge generation for commercial farmers. "We are pleased that five

leading agribusinesses have chosen to become founding members of our industry

council," Gloy said. "The council will help keep us focused on issues relevant to

commercial farms and undergraduates in the College of Agriculture."

The founding members of the council include AGCO Corp., Dow AgroSciences,

GROWMARK, Farm Credit Services of Mid-America and Syngenta "All of the

companies on the council have made significant financial contributions that will allow us

to accomplish some great things in the area of commercial agriculture," Gloy said.

"Those financial resources will be used to develop innovative educational programs for

farmers, react to timely research needs in commercial agriculture and provide

undergraduate students with out-of-classroom opportunities for engagement on

commercial farms. Additionally, each company has agreed to commit a key executive to

participate in council meetings and priority-setting discussions.

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Industry council representatives are:

Doug Griffin of Duluth, Ga., vice president of global marketing and brand

management, AGCO Corp. Griffin joined AGCO in 2002, where he develops

global branding and marketing programs. He received a bachelor's degree in

agricultural engineering from Purdue and has completed executive training

programs at Bradley University and Emory University. He was named a 2011

Purdue Distinguished Agricultural Alumnus.

Vern Hawkins of Greensboro, N.C., president of commercial operations and

regional director for North America, Syngenta. Hawkins is a 26-year Syngenta

veteran, rising through the ranks from sales territory manager to his current

positions in the company's crop protection and seed businesses. He received a

bachelor's degree in agronomy from Purdue and an executive MBA from Temple

University. He was named a 2011 Purdue Distinguished Agricultural Alumnus.

Stan Howell of Indianapolis, vice president of North America Regional

Commercial Unit, Dow AgroSciences. Howell is responsible for overseeing the

company's agricultural chemical, turf and ornamentals, urban pest, healthy oils,

and seeds and traits businesses in the United States and Canada. He also is

president of Phytogen Seed Co. He received a bachelor's degree in marketing

from Indiana University.

Dick Poe of Louisville, Ky., senior vice president of financial services, Farm

Credit Services of Mid-America. Poe oversees the management and sales of 43

Farm Credit Services offices in Indiana, Ohio and northern Kentucky. He began

his Farm Credit career in 1982 as a loan officer in Washington Court House,

Ohio. Poe received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of

Kentucky.

Jim Spradlin of Bloomington, Ill., vice president of agronomy, GROWMARK

Inc. Spradlin leads the company's seed, crop protection, plant protection, plant

food and facility planning and supply divisions, and GROWMARK's Agronomy

Marketing & Agronomic Services. He joined GROWMARK in 1982 after

receiving a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from

Illinois College.

Website: http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/commercialag/

http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/commercialag/

Section XIV, Page 1

XIV: INDIANA COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION (ICEE)

The Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE), is an affiliate of the

National Council on Economic Education (NCEE). The ICEE is a non-profit, educational

organization located at Purdue University. Founded in 1954, the ICEE is a

comprehensive partnership of leaders from business, labor, agriculture, education, and

government dedicated to increasing economic literacy in Indiana. Its mission is to prepare

students to become active citizens and productive member of our economy by providing

them with the ability to make sound economic decisions.

Website: http://www.econed-in.org/

http://www.econed-in.org/

Section XV, Page 1

XV: CENTER FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CRD)

The Center for Rural Development was established in the College of Agriculture

at Purdue in 1989. The center provides a broad range of educational programs which

contribute to the development of Indiana's human and physical capital. The Center for

Rural Development was established to: 1) bring University resources together to assist

public and private sectors as they work toward solving rural development problems; 2)

provide a broad range of educational programs which contribute to the development of

Indiana's human and physical capital; 3) coordinate and support research that improves

our understanding of economic and community development issues, problems and

opportunities; and, 4) provide issue-relevant information to individuals and groups

interested in rural development. The Center meets its objectives through educational

programs, contract and other research, and information dissemination.

Website: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/crd.aspx

http://www.ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/crd.aspx

Section XVI, Page 1

XVI: SITE-SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER (SSMC)

The SSMC mission is to develop and disseminate information about site-specific

management methods that are profitable and practical for agricultural producers and

those who supply inputs or process products. Site-specific management (precision

farming) uses GPS based technologies to tailor soil and crop management. Site-specific

management, also called precision farming, prescription farming, and even variable rate

application technology, is an old idea that has been given new life by the advent of

technologies based on global positioning systems (GPS). These GPS based technologies

are used to tailor soil and crop management to match conditions at every location in a

field. The work of this center is fundamentally interdisciplinary, involving Agricultural

Economics, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Agronomy.

Website: http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/ssmc/

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/ssmc/

Section XVII, Page 1

XVII: SPACE, HEALTH and POPULATION ECONOMICS – (ShaPE)

Many of today’s real-world problems have an explicit spatial dimension and are

in need of an integrated analysis. For instance, large income differences across the world

are a persistent phenomenon that can be explained by geographical features, population

dynamics and the health of the population. The same interplay of factors is relevant at the

national and the regional level, and public policy is used to impact the spatial distribution

of wealth, people and access to resources. A vast array of issues can therefore profit from

a spatially explicit analysis that integrates economic, demographic and possibly health-

related factors. These issues range from economic growth and development to firm

demographics in the manufacturing industry, food production and food security,

demographic profiles and movements of people, land use and transportation, health care

access and the obesity epidemic.

To inform public policy, the work of our group centers on:

producing state of the art knowledge regarding the way in which spatial, health

and population dynamics relate to real-world problems,

utilizing and developing cutting-edge spatial data analysis and modeling

techniques, and considering different spatial scales ranging from neighborhoods

to the global scale

Website: http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/shape/

http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/shape/

LIST OF APPENDICES

A. Teaching / Extension / Research Appointments

B. Faculty and Staff Profiles

C. Faculty and Staff Awards

D. Faculty and Staff Peer Recognition

E. Publications Summary

F. Publications List

G. Theses and Dissertations

Appendix A, Page 1

APPENDIX A

TEACHING / EXTENSION / RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS STAFF LIST

Professors (28) %Teaching %Extension %Research

Abbott, P.C.

35

0

65

Ayres, J.S.

15

85

0

Baker, T.G.

50

0

50

Barnard, F.L.

35

65

0

Binkley, J.K.

30

0

70

Boehlje, M.D.

20

50

30

DeBoer, L.P.

30

60

10

Dobbins, C.L.

20

80

0

Doering, O.C., III

30

35

35

Dooley, F. J.

70

10

20

Eales, J.S.

40

0

60

Florax, R.J.

40

0

60

Foster, K.A.

20

40

40

Fulton, J.R.

45

25

30

Gray, A.W.

30

45

25

Harrison, G.A.

15

85

0

Hertel, T.W.

30

0

70

Hurt, C.A.

25

75

0

Lee, J.G.

20

0

80

McNamara, K.T.

15

20

65

Paarlberg, P.L.

40

10

50

Patrick, G.F.

15

60

25

Preckel, P.V.

40

10

50

Sanders, J.H.

15

0

85

Shively, G.E.

30

0

70

Tyner, W.E.

10

60

30

Waldorf, B.S.

25

35

40

Wang, H. H.

40

0

60

Total FTE

8.30

8.50

11.20

Percent

29.6

30.4

40.0

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Associate Professors (7.3)

%Teaching %Extension %Research

Alexander, C.E.N.

20

50

30

Balagtas, J.V.

40

0

60

Dennis, J. H. (30 Agec/70 HLA) 9

18

3

Gloy, B. A.

25

50

25

Keeney, R.

40

0

60

Marshall, M. A.

15

55

30

Walmsley, T.L. (Research faculty, non-tenure) 0 0 100

Wu, S.Y.

40

0

60

Total FTE

1.89

1.73

3.68

Percent

25.9

23.7

50.4

Assistant Professors (6)

Downey, W. S.

30

45

25

Gramig, B.

40

0

60

Olynk, N.J.

0

50

50

Ricker-Gilbert, J.

35

0

65

Sesmero, J.P.

30

0

70

Villoria, N. (Research faculty, non-tenure)

0

0

100

Total FTE

1.35

0.95

3.70

Percent

22.5

15.8

61.7

TOTAL FACULTY (41.3)

11.54

11.18

18.58

Percent

27.9

27.1

45.0

Post Doctoral Positions (4)

Lokatos, C. (Hertel)

100

Sarica, K. (Tyner)

100

Steinbuks, J. (Hertel)

100

Verma, M. (Hertel)

100

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Professional Staff (31.7)

%Teaching %Extension %Research

Aguiar, A.

0

0

100

Alexander, M.

0

0

100

Batta, G.

0

0

100

Baugh, L.A.

65

0

35

Braunlich, E.

100

0

0

Cochran, A.L.

80

20

0

Cook, K.A.

40

30

30

Day, H.R.

40

30

30

DeMay, L.

0

100

0

Gloy, A.

0

100

0

Golub, A.

0

0

100

Good, A.

0

100

0

Gopalakrishnan, B.

0

0

100

Greiner, J.L.

50

50

0

Hufford, J.

20

30

50

Jones, B.S.

0

100

0

Kapetanovic, K.

0

100

0

McDougall, R.A.

0

0

100

Miller, W.A.

10

90

0

Oppy, A.

100

0

0

Pava, P

100

0

0

Quagrainie, K. (70 AGEC, 30 FNR)

0

70

0

Quirk, D.

0

100

0

Sanson, J. H.

0

100

0

Sauer, A.

0

100

0

Sheridan, M.

0

100

0

Stanish, L.

0

100

0

Taheripour, T.

0

0

100

Weber, D.L.

30

30

40

Williams, J.L.

100

0

0

Wood, C.J.

30

35

35

Woods, M.

0

0

100

Total FTE

7.65

13.85

10.20

Percent

24.1

43.7

32.2

Appendix A, Page 4

Adjunct Appointments (3)

Karshenas, M.

Thompson, S

Vernon, J.

Emeriti in Krannert (6)

Atkinson, J.H.

Connor, J.M. Until 12/11

Pond, M.T.

Taylor, R.W. Until 12/11

Uhl, J.N.

Uhrig, J.W.

Tenure Home for Staff

Housed Outside

Krannert (4)

Akridge, J.T. - AGAD Dean

Lowenberg DeBoer, J -

AGAD - Dir IPIA

Martin, M. - AGAD –

Assoc Dir ARP

Mintert, James R.- AGAD -

Asst Dir CES

AGECON SUMMARY

T

E

R TOTAL

Total Permanent Faculty

11.54

11.18

18.58 41.30

Professional Staff

7.65

13.85

10.20 31.70

Total Faculty and Professional

Staff

19.19

25.03

28.78 73.00

Subtotal

146.00

Adjunct Staff (3)

Emeriti in Krannert (6)

Total Staff in Krannert

155.00

Appendix B, Page 1

APPENDIX B

FACULTY AND STAFF PROFILES

Philip Abbott

Professor, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Abbott conducts research on both international trade and

international agricultural development. He has taught courses on

mathematical programming, international trade, agricultural

development, macroeconomics and trade policy. Professor Abbott has

consulted for several domestic and foreign government agencies, the

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the OECD, the

World Bank, commissions on food policy issues, and private agencies.

He has been on the editorial boards of the American Journal of

Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Development Economics.

Professor Abbott served on the steering committees of the

congressionally-mandated USDA study on Export Embargoes and Surplus Disposal of

Agricultural Commodities, the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, regional

research project NC-194, "Organization and Performance of World Food Systems," and the

USDA-USTR Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Grains, Feeds and

Oilseeds. He is also now conducting research on cotton and cocoa in West Africa, on trade and

development in Vietnam, on volatile food prices in international markets, and on trade and

stabilization policy responses by developing countries. Four of his students have won national

awards for the quality of their dissertations.

Corinne Alexander

Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Professor Corinne Alexander serves as an Extension specialist in the

area of grain marketing. Her goal is to assist farmers and agricultural

businesses with the marketing of their grain both in commodity markets

and in specialty markets. Her research generally focuses on interactions

between members of the supply chain, with a particular interest in

contractual relationships. Her current research interests examine how

farmer’s production decisions interact with their marketing decisions.

This includes several projects: a) evaluating the costs and benefits of an

on-farm quality assurance program (Grainsafe developed by Dr. Dirk

Maier at Purdue) and b) how European regulations preventing the import

of non-approved transgenic crops has affected Indiana farmers’ decisions to adopt Bt corn

resistant to corn rootworm. Dr. Alexander has two Extension programs. The first program

focuses on price risk management and provides information about new marketing tools such as

new generation grain marketing contracts. The second program focuses on marketing value-

added products, with a focus on food-grade grains and organic products.

Appendix B, Page 2

Janet Ayres

Professor, Extension Specialist Leadership Development,

Ph.D. Purdue University

Professor Ayres works in the area of community leadership

development. She develops state and national level programs to

build the capacity of rural residents, and state and federal

professionals who work in rural areas, to address community

change, create a strategic direction, deal with conflict and build

leadership for local decision making and action. She has worked in

over 200 rural communities in Indiana and over 100,000 people

have participated in her training programs. Currently her programs

include the Leadership Institute with the Indiana Conservation

Partnership http://www.in.gov/isda/files/LI_brochure.pdf, the Rural Development Online

Interactive Course with USDA/Rural Development, and a new curriculum titled, Public

Discourse on Controversial Public Issues. Janet’s current research interests include examining

the impacts of confined animal feeding operations in regards to community relationships and

trust, conflict, and land use policies.

Timothy Baker

Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University

Professor Baker's research interests are in the area of farm financial

management, stochastic and dynamic models, risk management,

financial markets, and land values. He teaches an undergraduate course

in agricultural finance and graduate courses in agricultural finance,

production economics, and risk. Professor Baker's recent publications

include: "Risk Sharing Versus Low Cost Credit Programs for

International Development," American Journal of Agricultural

Economics, (Nov. 1990); "A Farm Level Financial Analysis of

Farmers' Use of Futures and Options Under Alternative Farm

Programs," American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Nov. 1990);

"Farmers' Choice of Fixed and Adjustable Rate Loans," American

Journal of Agricultural Economics (Nov. 1988); and "The Theoretical Effects of Farm Policies

on Optimal Leverage and the Probability of Equity Losses," American Journal of Agricultural

Economics (Aug. 1988).

http://www.in.gov/isda/files/LI_brochure.pdf

Appendix B, Page 3

Joseph Balagtas

Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Professor Balagtas conducts research on the economics of agricultural

markets and policy. His published work includes empirical studies of

agricultural commodity prices, industrial organization of U.S. dairy

markets, and economic consequences of U.S. dairy policy. He has

published in the top field journals, including the American Journal of

Agricultural Economics (AJAE) and the Australian Journal of

Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE). His paper on the

impact of the Australia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement on U.S. dairy

markets won 2006 best article in the AJARE. His research on dairy

policy is the foundation for an outreach program aimed at informing

industry groups and policy makers of consequences of alternative

policies. Dr. Balagtas is active in the profession, serving currently as

Associate Editor of the AJAE, and recently as the Chair of the Food and Agricultural Marketing

Policy Section of the AAEA. Dr. Balagtas is currently a Fulbright Research Scholar in the

Philippines, where he is teaching and conducting research on rice markets as a Visiting Research

Fellow at the International Rice Research Institute and a Visiting Professor in the Department of

Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines, Los Banos.

Freddie Barnard

Professor, Ph.D. University of Illinois

Professor Barnard’s Extension interests include agricultural

finance and farm management. He has had extensive experience in

agricultural lending. Professor Barnard’s responsibilities include

serving as director of the Midwest Agricultural Banking School,

which is cosponsored by the Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,

Michigan, and Ohio Bankers Associations and the Department of

Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. The school is held

annually at Purdue. In addition, he is the coordinator for the

annual Indiana Bankers’ Agricultural Clinic and the Advanced

Agricultural Lending Workshop. He also serves as the

Secretary/Treasurer for the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and

Rural Appraisers. Professor Barnard is currently a member of the Technical Committee for the

Farm Financial Standards Council, which recommends guidelines for financial reporting and

analysis in agriculture. Professor Barnard teaches the Agribusiness Management course in the

department and counsels undergraduate students.

Appendix B, Page 4

James Binkley

Professor, Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Professor Binkley has worked on a wide range of issues, most

relating to commodity and food markets. He has published in a

variety of journals, ranging from the American Journal of

Agricultural Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics

to the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the

International Journal of Obesity. His recent research has focused

on the retail sector, food away from home, and consumer demand

for nutrition, especially the role of income in nutrition demand and

more generally in health behavior. This has included an analysis of

the puzzling fact that low income consumers have relatively high

demands for cigarettes, despite the cost. Current research on the

retail sector is focused on price search, including its role in market

discipline and maintaining competitive seller behavior

Michael Boehlje

Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University

Professor Boehlje conducts research and teaches in the area of farm

and agribusiness management and finance. His research interests

include alternative systems of coordination of the food and industrial

product chain, innovation and risk and uncertainty. Professor Boehlje

teaches a graduate/undergraduate course in agricultural finance and a

graduate course in economics of strategy in the MS/MBA

program. He teaches in the executive development programs of the

Center for Food and Agricultural Business, as well as in schools and

workshops for farmers, lenders and agribusiness leaders on

finance/management/strategy topics. Boehlje is also involved in

applied research and Extension education programs on critical

risk/finance/strategy issues facing farmers as part of the Center for

Commercial Agriculture. He is a Fellow of the American Agricultural

Economics Association and of the International Food and Agribusiness Management

Association.

Appendix B, Page 5

Lawrence DeBoer

Professor, Ph.D. Syracuse University

Professor DeBoer studies state and local government public policy,

including such topics as government budget and taxing options,

issues of property tax assessment, local government revenue options,

and the fiscal impact of economic development. He has worked with

the Indiana Legislative Services Agency on tax and finance issues

since 1988. He contributes to the annual state revenue forecasts. He

helps maintain a model of the property tax used by the Indiana state

legislature to analyze the impacts of assessment and tax policy

changes. DeBoer directed a study on market value property tax

assessment for the Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners during

1995-97. He directed the staff work for Governor O’Bannon’s

Citizen’s Commission on Taxation, 1997-98, and contributed research to Governor Daniels’

Commission on Local Government Reform in 2007. He writes a monthly column about Indiana

and national economic topics, Capital Comments, and maintains a website devoted to Indiana

state and local government issues. DeBoer writes the macroeconomic outlook section of the

Agricultural Economics Department's annual outlook program. He teaches an undergraduate

course in macroeconomics with an enrollment of 250 to 400 each semester, and has authored a

macroeconomics textbook, called MacroPolicy. DeBoer was the 2009 recipient of Purdue’s

Hovde Award for service to the rural people of Indiana, and the 2010 recipient of the Indiana

Association of Public School Superintendent’s Distinguished Service Award.

Jennifer Dennis

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics and Horticulture and Landscape Architecture,

Ph.D. Michigan State University

Professor Dennis joined the Purdue Agricultural Economics faculty in

June 2004 working in the areas of extension, teaching and research in

marketing of specialty crops and consumer behavior. Dr. Dennis’

Extension, research, and teaching program focuses on providing

marketing expertise and guidance to horticulture specialty crop

producers. She has an extremely unique research/teaching/Extension

program that teaches stakeholders how to identify and evaluate

marketing opportunities for various types of horticulture businesses

by conducting applied research in consumer behavior and market

channels. She works heavily with direct marketers; greenhouse,

nursery, and floriculture producers; and fruit and vegetable growers

disseminating applied research results and creating educational

programming to address the needs of competing with mass merchandisers, understanding

consumers, and determining market demand. Dr. Dennis’ Extension program integrates a

regionally recognized program with a strong, peer-reviewed applied research program in

horticultural marketing. Dr. Dennis is a key contributor to team efforts in creating Extension

programs with colleagues from Horticulture & Landscape Architecture and Agricultural

Economics, across the region, and U.S. Her teaching record shows her ability to help students

Appendix B, Page 6

learn key marketing principles that come from theory and her applied research. She is one of two

people in the U.S. to have a horticultural marketing research program focusing on consumer

research. Dr. Dennis works the Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) Diversity

Specialist, to coordinate projects and minimize duplication of effort on horticulture and specialty

crops for ISDA and has worked internationally with Dr. Kwamena Quagrainie on marketing

supply chain issues for aquaculture farmers in Kenya and Ghana. Dr. Dennis has taught:

Horticulture 435 (Horticulture Marketing), 445 (Marketing Capstone), and AGEC 429 (NAMA

Capstone Course). Dr. Dennis is recognized nationally through her efforts in the Multi-State S-

1021 project and by her work as Marketing and Economics working group chair for American

Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS).

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Craig Dobbins

Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University

Dr. Dobbins has assumed new responsibilities as Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs.

In this position, he oversees all aspects of the curriculum serving the

550 undergraduate students in the Department of Agricultural

Economics. His responsibility is to ensure there is a direct link

between the skills needed by students seeking employment with food

and agribusiness companies, the learning outcomes of our students,

and the coursework offered by the Department of Agricultural

Economics.

Professor Dobbins originates and delivers on-campus courses,

Extension education, and farm management research. On-campus,

Professor Dobbins teaches two undergraduate courses: AGEC 411 –

Farm Management and AGEC 412 – Farm Business Management Workshop. AGEC 411

provides a farm management capstone experience for undergraduate students. The course

integrates production, strategy, financial management, production economics, and human

resources. The AGEC 412 workshop provides students the opportunity to develop a succession

plan for joining the family business. Dr. Dobbins has also taught AGEC 552 – Introduction to

Mathematical Programming, a key course in the Department’s MS program.

Professor Dobbins provides leadership for key Extension education offerings. These include the

Top Farmer Crop Workshop, Farm Management Tour, Making Financial Decisions in Your

Farm Business, Farming Together Workshop, and the Department’s fall outlook program.

Professor Dobbins also provides Extension education offerings on farmland economics, farmland

leasing, and crop economics. These education offerings are delivered through the Center for

Food and Agricultural Business, Center for Commercial Agriculture, and as individual programs.

Professor Dobbins research address issues associated with farmland values, farmland leasing,

crop economics, and farm financial management.

Appendix B, Page 7

Otto Doering

Professor, Director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, Ph.D. Cornell University

Professor Doering has teaching, research and outreach extension

responsibilities in the Department. He is a public policy specialist on

economic issues affecting agriculture, natural resources, and energy. He

has served the U.S. Department of Agriculture working on the 1977 and

1990 Farm Bills. In 1997 he was the Principal Advisor to USDA’s

Natural Resources Conservation Service for implementing the 1996

Farm Bill and served again with NRCS in 2005. From 1985 to 1990 he

was director of Indiana’s State Utility Forecasting Group. In 1999 he

was the economic assessment team leader for the National Hypoxia

Assessment of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. He served in 2007

on the National Academies Committee on the Mississippi River and the

Clean water Act and the National Research Council’s Committee on the Water Implications of

Biofuels Production in the United States and is on the Academies’ Water Science and technology

Board. He also serves on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and

chaired their Integrated Nitrogen Committee. He was 2007-2008 President of the Agricultural

and Applied Economics Association and has twice received the AAEA’s Distinguished Policy

Contribution Award as well as its Extension Economics Teaching Award. He was part of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change group that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and

directs Purdue’s Climate Change Research Center.

Frank Dooley

Professor, Provost Fellow, Ph.D. Washington State University

Professor Frank Dooley has an international reputation as being a gifted

and innovative teacher, as well as creative researcher. He currently is

serving as a Provost Fellow at Purdue University.

Dr. Dooley has primary teaching responsibility for AGEC 20300 -

Introductory Microeconomics for Food and Agribusiness and AGEC

53300 - Supply Chain Management for Food and Agribusiness. He has

won 19 awards for outstanding teaching and advising, including the

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Outstanding

Undergraduate Teacher in 2011, the David C. Pfendler College of

Agriculture Outstanding Counselor Award in 2004, and the Charles B.

Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Purdue

University, in 2009. He was named a Faculty Fellow in Purdue University's Teaching Academy

in 2002, and became a member of Executive Council in 2007, serving as chairperson in 2010-11.

He also is an active presenter in programs at the Center for Food and Agricultural Business. His

research program in agribusiness focuses upon transportation and supply chain management.

His work has studied issues in the food manufacturing and retailing, ethanol, transportation, and

country grain elevator industries. His publication record includes chapters in 6 books, and over

200 articles or other publications.

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Appendix B, Page 8

W. Scott Downey

Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Center for Food and Agricultural Business,


Professor Downey works with agribusinesses to help them improve

their efforts to build value for farmers. He focuses on the buyer-seller

interface and the facets of management that make this interface most

effective. He conducts open enrollment and custom programs in the

areas of precision selling, sales management, and marketing through the

Center for Food and Agricultural Business. He brings his interaction

with industry into the classroom to help students gain practical

experience in sales. Dr. Downey’s courses in selling are popular across

many majors on campus. He advises the Purdue Agricultural Sales and

Marketing Club, which works with industrial firms to solve real world

marketing challenges. In 2011 he received a national award for

teaching from the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association. His scholarship is focused in

two areas. First, he has developed extensive classroom materials to support sales educators and

has completed research on teaching methods that help address the challenges of teaching in a

large lecture classroom. Second, he works to understand how segments of farmers make buying

decisions. He is part of a team of researchers that have worked on Purdue’s Large Commercial

Producer research project. His dissertation work, completed at Purdue in 2007, focused on

ruralpolitan buyers and adds to this area of study.

James Eales

Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Professor Eales conducts research in the area of agricultural marketing

and demand analysis. His research interests include marketing,

microeconomic theory, and econometrics. Professor Eales teaches

AGEC 220 (Economics of Agricultural Markets), AGEC 451

(undergraduate econometrics), and AGEC 605 (graduate price analysis).

Dr. Eales recent publications include: Coelho, A., D. Aguiar, and J.

Eales, (2010) “Food demand in Brazil: an application of Shonkwiler &

Yen two-step estimation method.” Estudos Economicos (USP.

Impresso), v. 40, p. 185-211. Stepchenkova, S.and J. Eales. (2011).

Destination Image as Quantified Media Messages: The Effect of News

on Tourism Demand. Journal of Travel Research, 50(2), 198-212.

Unnevehr, L. J. Eales, H Jensen, J. Lusk, J. McCluskey, and J. Kinsey

(2010). "Food and Consumer Economics." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92(2):

506-21. Durham, C. and J. Eales (2010).“Demand elasticities for fresh fruit at the retail

level.” Applied Economics, 42(11): 1345-1354.

Appendix B, Page 9

Raymond Florax

Professor, Ph.D. University of Twente, The Netherlands

Professor Florax holds degrees in economics and sociology from

universities in his native country, the Netherlands. Currently, he is

professor of spatial and environmental economics in the Department of

Agricultural Economics. He is also associated with the Department of

Spatial Economics of the VU University Amsterdam and the Tinbergen

Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research deals with topics

in regional and urban economics and in environmental economics, and

he also specializes in quantitative techniques, such as spatial

econometrics and meta-analysis. He has taught undergraduate and

graduate classes on these topics, and was advisor of numerous graduate

students. He is an active member of the international research community, and served a ten-year

tenure as editor-in-chief of the international journal Papers in Regional Science, published by

Wiley-Blackwell. Currently, he is a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute (TI), the Spatial

Econometrics Association (SEA), the Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE), and the

Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS). His latest publications include a collected

volume on energy efficiency and a journal article on spatial Poison regression models.

Kenneth Foster

Professor and Department Head, Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Professor Foster's research interests are in the fields of production economics

and marketing with special emphasis on dynamic models in the livestock and

meat sectors. His work has included a dynamic analysis of investment and

supply in the U.S. beef cattle industry, measuring technical change in

agriculture, the management of livestock waste, demand for heterogeneous

products, and the use of contracts in agricultural production. Foster’s

research and outreach activities have included testimony to Senate

committees and state legislative study committees on the competitiveness of

livestock markets and the use of contract production. Likewise, his work has

impacted the decisions of private stakeholders in the livestock and meat

industry. Most notable, perhaps, is his coauthored book Positioning Your

Pork Operation for the 21st Century which provided guidance to the

international pork industry during a time of dramatic technological and managerial revolution.

Professor Foster teaches applied econometrics, has experience working in Latin America, China,

and Africa, and serves as an extension specialist in the area of livestock production economics.

Foster served as Associate Head and Graduate Program Director from 2004 to 2008 and was

named Interim Department Head in 2008. In 2009, he was appointed as head of the department.

Foster serves on the College of Agriculture Academic Leadership Council and as an ex-Officio

member of the Board of Directors for the Agribusiness Council of Indiana. Among his many

awards, Ken has been recognized by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

for Distinguished Graduate Teaching with 10 or More Years’ Experience, by the College of

Agriculture for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor, and has received the Purdue Agriculture

Team Award on three different occasions. He is currently the Chair of the National Association

of Agricultural Economics Administrators.

Appendix B, Page 10

Joan Fulton

Professor, Associate Department Head, Director Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization

Center, Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Professor Fulton teaches a senior level undergraduate marketing course

as well as the advanced quantitative methods course in the MS/MBA

program. Dr. Fulton is active in Extension programming. She is Chair

of Purdue’s New Ventures Team and Director of Purdue’s Agricultural

Innovation and Commercialization Center (AICC) where she is active in

the development and delivery of programs to assist individuals and

groups evaluate new business opportunities.

Dr. Fulton’s research focuses on problems related to marketing and

business structure both in the United States and internationally. Her

recent work examined word-of-mouth marketing among farmers in the

United States. In West Africa she has explored the importance of alternative extension

programming for technology transfer and adoption of improved technologies. She is currently

examining the factors that contribute to successful entrepreneurship for women selling street

food in West Africa and other developing countries.

Dr. Joan Fulton joined the Purdue Agricultural Economics faculty in July 1997. She completed

her Ph.D. work at the University of Minnesota where she explored the impact of centralized

versus decentralized decision-making authority in grain marketing cooperatives. She previously

held assistant professor positions at the University of Alberta and Colorado State University.

Brent Gloy

Associate Professor, Director, Center for Commercial Agriculture, Ph.D. Purdue University

Professor Gloy teaches and conducts research and Extension programs

in the areas of agricultural finance and agribusiness management. The

majority of his research has focused on issues related to the supply and

demand for credit. Dr. Gloy currently serves as the Director of the

Center for Commercial Agriculture and an Associate Director of the

Center for Food and Agricultural Business. He teaches an

undergraduate course in Agricultural and Food Business Strategy. Prior

to arriving at Purdue, Dr. Gloy was an associate professor in the

Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell

University. There he taught undergraduate courses in Agribusiness

Strategy and Agricultural Finance and a graduate course in Agricultural

Finance. In addition to his traditional classroom teaching, Dr. Gloy participated and led classes

on a number of international and domestic farm and agribusiness field studies. These included

trips to Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Holland and Australia. Domestic farm management field

study destinations include California, Texas, Florida, and Georgia.




Appendix B, Page 11

Ben Gramig

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State

Professor Gramig teaches an undergraduate environmental and natural

resource economics course and a PhD course on dynamic economic

analysis. His research activities are focused primarily on

environmental and natural resource economics, with an emphasis on

the interface between agriculture, energy and the

environment. Gramig's research is motivated by public policy and the

role of human activity in environmental change. Ben has a strong

interest in applied micro-economic theory and inter-disciplinary

research that integrates economics with natural or physical sciences to

analyze applied problems. His research interests include intertemporal

decision making, information economics, climate change, markets for

environmental goods and services, invasive species management, and spatial dimensions of

environmental and natural resource management. Ben’s dissertation research focused on

empirical and theoretical analysis of livestock disease management issues including on-farm

adoption of biosecurity and health management practices, design of government indemnification

programs in the presence of asymmetric information, and modeling disease and behavioral

dynamics in a decentralized setting.

Allan Gray

Professor, Director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business,

Director of the MSMBA in Food and Agribusiness Management, Ph.D.

Texas A&M University

Professor Gray joined the agricultural economics faculty at Purdue

University in August 1998. As director, Allan provides strategic

direction for the center and MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness

Management, a dual-degree, distance-delivered program offered in

partnership by Purdue and Indiana University. He works with food and

agribusiness managers in the center’s professional development

programs, while also continuing to teach statistics for decision making

at the master’s level, strategic agribusiness management at the doctorate level and quantitative

analysis in the MS-MBA program. Allan’s research interests are agribusiness management,

strategic planning, decision making in uncertain environments and simulation. He’s also the lead

researcher for the Large Commercial Producer Survey, conducted every five years by the center,

that explores the attitudes and buying behaviors of large commercial producers. Allan has also

researched the impacts of alternative farm policy proposals and the management implications of

real options thinking. Allan has won numerous awards, including the American Agricultural

Economics Association’s Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award, the Purdue

University Dean’s Team Award and the United States Distance Learning Association’s

Excellence in Distance Teaching Award.

Appendix B, Page 12

Gerald Harrison

Professor, Ph.D. Iowa State University; J.D., Indiana University-Law, Indianapolis

Professor Harrison's research, Extension education and teaching focuses

on numerous topics including: farm management, estate planning,

business organization, federal tax law and numerous legal topics with

emphasis on Indiana. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles,

papers, and publications for 40 years at Purdue. He has served for over a

dozen years as a resource specialist on the Purdue Land Use Team. He

presents seminars on Estate and Family Farm Business Transfer Planning

and on other legal topics throughout Indiana. His seminars serve farmers

and landowners but also provide continuing education credits for

Indiana: lawyers, accountants and insurance producers. He the founder

and instructor for AgEC455, Ag Law; and AgEC456, Federal Individual

Income Tax Law. Gerry was a co-founder in 1973 and serves as the editor of the Purdue

Agricultural Economics Reports available: on paper by paid subscription and is free

electronically four times a year. He is online daily via listservs sharing information with lawyers

and accountants.

Thomas Hertel

Distinguished Professor, Executive Director, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP),

Ph.D. Cornell University

Professor Hertel is a Fellow, and Past President of the Agricultural and

Applied Economics Association (AAEA). He is also the founder and

Executive Director of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) which

now encompasses 10,000 researchers in 150 countries around the world

(https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/). His most recent research has

focused on the impacts of energy and climate policies on global land use

and poverty. Previously, Professor Hertel has conducted extensive

research on the impacts of multilateral trade agreements, including the

linkages between global trade policies and poverty in developing

countries. His book on the poverty impacts of a WTO agreement (co-

edited with Alan Winters) received the AAEA Quality of Communication

award. Other AAEA awards include: Distinguished Policy Contribution

and Outstanding Journal Article.

https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/

Appendix B, Page 13

Christopher Hurt

Professor, Extension Coordinator, Ph.D. University of Illinois

Professor Hurt joined the department in 1981. He teaches an

undergraduate course in livestock and meat marketing. Professor

Hurt's areas of specialty include examination of family farm market

problems, pricing strategies, and livestock futures market problems,

pricing strategies, and livestock futures market performance. In

extension education, he provides analysis for participation in

government programs, teaches marketing principles and alternatives,

evaluates the livestock industry structure, and provides price analysis

and outlook of live cattle and live hogs. Recently he has examined the

factors influencing the structural changes in the pork industry, and

evaluated the adoption of new technologies in moderate size

Midwestern farms. Professor Hurt helps coordinate a fee-based market

newsletter and report service published jointly with the University of Illinois. He serves as editor

of the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report. Professor Hurt has received the USDA Superior

Service Group Award, an American Agricultural Economics Group award, as well as two

Indiana Extension Service Awards.

Roman Keeney

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University

Roman Keeney began his appointment with the agricultural

economics faculty of Purdue University in August 2005 as assistant

professor of farm and rural household economics. Prior to that

Roman was a Ph.D. student in the Purdue AgEcon department.

Roman’s research program explores how farm households and rural

residents respond to and are impacted by changes to farm and farm

related policies. Roman has worked extensively on the interaction

between U.S. domestic farm programs and international trade

barriers, focusing in particular on the distribution of gains and losses

across the population of U.S. farmers. Recently, Roman has taken on

Extension responsibilities for analysis and education of farm

payment programs. In addition to research and Extension, Roman

teaches the department’s undergraduate math programming course and graduate level production

economics course.

Appendix B, Page 14

John Lee

Professor, Associate Director of the Center for the Environment, Ph.D. Texas A&M University

Professor Lee primarily researches in the area of natural resource

economics. His specialty areas include water resource economics,

soil and water conservation policy, and assessment of agricultural

and environmental risk. His current research is focused on linking

international trade and the environment. This work ranges from the

potential impact of livestock diseases to multi-functionality in trade

negotiations. Dr. Lee teaches AGEC 200 "Introduction to

Agricultural Economics," AGEC 604 "Fundamentals of Welfare

Economics," and AGEC 616 "Natural Resource Economics and

Policy."

Maria Marshall

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Kansas State University

Professor Maria Marshall conducts an applied research and

Extension program in small and family business management, food

marketing, and entrepreneurship.Dr. Marshall is an Extension

Specialist in small business development. Her Extension program

seeks to increase economic development by providing research-

based decision making tools for entrepreneurs and small business

development practitioners. Specifically, the focus of her Extension

program is on small business development via educational programs

aimed at increasing the number, profitability, and sustainability of

small businesses. She has mainly concentrated on micro-enterprise

development by providing business management assistance, and

developing research-based instructional materials and publications

that can be used with diverse audiences. Dr. Marshall’s applied research is the foundation of her

Extension program and focuses on small business development, family business management,

and rural economic development. Her small and family business research is focused on areas

such as the firm birth process, business management, and succession. Her rural economic

development research focuses on alternative enterprises, small farms, and disaster recovery. Her

main research goal is to determine the resource exchange between the family, the community

and the business.

Appendix B, Page 15

Kevin McNamara

Professor, Assistant Director, International Programs in Agriculture,

Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Professor McNamara's Research interests in regional economics and

economic impact analysis include analysis of factors influencing

manufacturing growth, infrastructure investment trend analysis, impact

of public development policy on local income and employment growth,

economic impact analysis, land price analysis, and linkages between

agriculture and the non-agricultural economy. Current research includes:

farmland price analysis, agricultural sector and market analysis, regional

growth analysis, food manufacturing industry growth analysis,

assessment of rural manufacturers’ technical assistance needs, and

growth sector analysis. Dr. McNamara works with federal, state, and

local government officials, development organizations, and industry

groups as well as other faculty to research rural economic growth alternatives and evaluate

development policy options. He has published over 70 research articles, 9 book chapters, and

numerous extension and trade articles. Dr. McNamara, as a principle investigator, has received

more than $7 million to support his program.

Dr. McNamara’s international development activities include institutional capacity building,

faculty development, development research, extension training, and faculty short-term and

degree education in Afghanistan, Austria, Germany, Ghana, Honduras, Morocco, and Syria.

Since 2002 Dr. McNamara has given leadership to Purdue’s efforts in Afghanistan. This effort

has engaged over 70 Purdue faculty in programmatic activities to support agricultural capacity

building/development in Afghanistan through higher education, USDA/USAID programs, DIFD,

and DOD programs. Dr. McNamara has secured more than $46 million to support Purdue

program activities in Afghanistan.

Nicole Olynk

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University

Professor Olynk’s research and extension activities are focused

primarily on farm business management and production economics.

Much of Nicole’s work focuses on assisting with and providing support

for agricultural producer decision making. She has a strong interest in

applied research which incorporates both the economic outcomes of an

on-farm decision and the intricacies of the biological processes

underlying the production system employed. Nicole has a strong

interest in inter-disciplinary research which provides support for on-

farm decision making regarding technology adoption, analysis of

producer costs and benefits associated with alternative production

processes, support for management of purchased inputs, and providing

insight into the implications of changing consumer demand and preferences for agricultural

producers.

Appendix B, Page 16

Philip Paarlberg

Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University

Professor Paarlberg's research interests include the economic impacts of

livestock disease plant outbreaks. He has had extensive experience in

the Economic Research Service (ERS) from 1977-1985 where he

analyzed global oilseed markets, global grain markets and international

trade policy issues. In 1991-1992, Professor Paarlberg was a visiting

professor at the University of Goettingen. During 2005, 2007, and 2009

- 2011 Dr. Paarlberg has spent time at the Centers for Epidemiology and

Animal Health, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO.

In 2010 and 2011 Dr. Paarlberg served as a member of the National

Academies of Science committee reviewing the site specific risk

assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility. His awards

include a USDA Superior Service Award, an award for superior research by ERS, an American

Agricultural Economics Association award for his Ph.D. thesis, and outstanding journal article

for 2003 by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. His teaching responsibilities

include an undergraduate level course in agricultural policy and a graduate level course in

international agricultural trade.

George Patrick

Professor and Extension Economist, Ph.D. Purdue University

Professor Patrick’s areas of research include the evaluation of risk

management strategies, farmers’ risk attitudes and responses to risk,

forward pricing by producers and effects of changes in income tax law.

Professor Patrick coordinates the Purdue Income Tax School for tax

professionals. This two day program enrolls about 1,000 tax

professionals annually and is conducted at 11 locations throughout

Indiana. He also conducts programs on tax management and risk

management for producers. Dr. Patrick teaches AGEC 456, Federal

Income Tax Law, for over 80 students in the spring semester. Dr.

Patrick’s Extension program was recognized as the Distinguished

Extension Program- Individual by the American Association of

Agricultural Economics (AAEA) in 2004. He received the Purdue University Cooperative

Extension Specialist Career Award in 2002. During the 1999 to 2004 period he served as

Director, President-Elect, President and Past-President of the AAEA Extension Section. Dr.

Patrick received the 1997 Tax Award from the Quality for Indiana Taxpayers Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Patrick was President of the Board of Directors of the Land Grant University Tax Education

Foundation, Inc. from 2001 to 2008 and he continues as a Director. Dr. Patrick was a member of

the RuralTax.org group which received the Western Agricultural Economics Association

Extension Award in 2011.

Appendix B, Page 17

Paul Preckel

Professor, Faculty Director of Indiana’s State Utility Forecasting Group

Ph.D. Stanford University

Professor Preckel researches and teaches in the areas of decision

analysis and mathematical modeling. He has had extensive experience

in developing applications and methods over a wide range of subject

matter areas. His current areas of interest are focused on energy

economics, supply chain management, assessment of the effects of

policy across an economy's income spectrum, and applications and

methods for optimization and numerical integration. He has served as a

consultant to Control Analysis Corporation, Electric Power Research

Institute, Hudson Institute, Land O’ Lakes, U.S. Agency for

International Development, University of Delaware, World Bank,

Chemonics International, and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State University

Professor Ricker-Gilbert joined the Department in August 2011. He

conducts research related to economic growth and poverty reduction in

developing countries and has a special interest in how technology, market

access, and public policy affect peoples’ decisions and well-being. He

has international experience in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Jacob’s

dissertation research evaluating the impact of fertilizer subsidies on farm

households in Malawi won the 2009 T.W. Schultz award for best paper at

the Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Agricultural

Economics. Prior to his doctoral studies, Jacob worked as an economist

at the Economic Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture

from 2005 to 2007.

Appendix B, Page 18

John Sanders

Professor, Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Professor Sanders spent almost twelve years overseas doing his PhD

fieldwork and working for the Ford Foundation in Brazil (Fortaleza,

Ceara), as the economist in the Bean Program in CIAT (Cali,

Colombia) and representing Purdue in a university development

program in Portugal (Evora) before joining the Purdue faculty in West

Lafayette. Since 1983 he has been at Purdue teaching economic

development and doing field research in Sub-Saharan Africa. During

this time (1983-2011) he has made over 100 trips to Sub-Saharan

Africa recently concentrating his activities in Mali, Niger, Senegal and

Burkina Faso. Since 2003 to the present (2011) he has been involved

in a technology-marketing strategy extension program for farmers in

these four counties. This Production-Marketing project also includes facilitating the evolution of

farmers’ associations into marketing coops and the development of markets for sorghum and

millet. Sanders has specialized in the economics of technological change. He has done many

impact studies including three journal articles on the impact of agricultural technologies on

women. As of mid-2011 he has 107 professional publications (65 journal articles and 42 book

chapters). In 1996 his work with his graduate students of 13 years in Africa was published in The

Economics of Agricultural Technology in Semiarid, Sub-Saharan Africa (co-authored with two

of his former graduate students). Presently, he focuses on implementing the technology and

marketing recommendations advocated in this book in the major Sahelian countries of West

Africa.

Juan Sesmero

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Nebraska

Professor Sesmero completed his Ph.D. in agricultural economics at

the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Juan's teaching and research

activities are focused primarily on energy, natural resource and

environmental economics. He has a strong interest in the

assessment of the economic viability and environmental implications

of alternative energy pathways. Juan is also interested in the role of

technological progress in resource extraction and the resulting

ecological sustainability of production systems. His research also

includes measurement of environmental and marketing efficiency in

the biofuels industry and agricultural productivity growth in China.

Appendix B, Page 19

Gerald Shively

Professor, Associate Department Head, Director of Graduate Programs,

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Professor Shively conducts nationally and internationally recognized

research on agriculture, the environment, and natural resource

management. His research focuses on the links among poverty, land and

labor use, and natural resource management in developing regions of

the world. His interests also include the environmental and

distributional implications of sectoral and macroeconomic policies, and

dynamic household models incorporating risk. Prof. Shively's

international experience includes research in numerous African and

Asian countries.

Wallace Tyner

Professor, James and Lois Ackerman Professor of Agricultural Economics,

Ph.D. University of Maryland

Professor Tyner is an energy economist and James and Lois Ackerman

Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. He received his

B.S. degree in chemistry (1966) from Texas Christian University, and his

M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in economics from the University

of Maryland. Professor Tyner’s research interests are in the area of

energy, agriculture, and natural resource policy analysis and structural

and sectoral adjustment in developing economies. He has over 200

professional papers in these areas including three books and 70+ journal

papers, published abstracts, and book chapters. His past work in energy

economics has encompassed oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, biomass,

ethanol from agricultural sources, and solar energy. His current research

focuses on renewable energy policy issues and climate change. He

teaches a graduate course in benefit-cost analysis, which incorporates risk

into the economic and financial analysis of investment projects. In 5 of the past 7 years, his

students have received the department’s outstanding thesis award. In June 2007, Senator

Richard G. Lugar of Indiana named Tyner an “Energy Patriot” for his work on energy policy

analysis. In 2009 he received the Purdue College of Agriculture Outstanding Graduate Educator

award and was part of a group that received the College Team award for multidisciplinary

research on biofuels. He is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee

on Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels.

Appendix B, Page 20

Nelson Villoria

Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Purdue University

Professor Villoria is a research assistant professor in the Department of

Agricultural Economics. His research interests are in the areas of

international trade and production economics. Much of his work uses

bilateral trade flows to study the transmission of demand and supply

shocks across countries. His current interests are in the modeling of

global land supply and productivity and the interaction between

weather fluctuations and trade patterns.

Brigitte Waldorf

Professor, Ph.D. University of Illinois

Dr. Waldorf came to the Department of Agricultural Economics at

Purdue University in 2005. In her research, Professor Waldorf

combines a topical interest in population, urban and transportation

issues with a methodological interest in spatial and quantitative

analysis. Among her research topics are regional demographic change

due to migration and fertility, the growth of a knowledge-based

workforce, the urban-rural interface, and the transportation needs of the

elderly. Throughout her career, Dr. Waldorf has regularly taught

undergraduate and graduate courses on statistics and quantitative

methods as well as on population issues. Currently she teaches AGEC

250: The Economic Geography of Food and Resources. Dr. Waldorf is

associated with the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD)

and Purdue’s Land Use Team (LUT). Dr. Waldorf serves on the North American Regional

Science Council, the Editorial Board of the Annals of Regional Science, the Board of Directors

of the Western Regional Science Association. She is the book review editor of Papers in

Regional Science: The Journal of the Regional Science Association International.

Appendix B, Page 21

Terrie Walmsley

Research Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP),

Ph.D. Monash University

Professor Walmsley joined GTAP as a post-doctoral research fellow

after completing her PhD at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Following the post-doc she spent three years as a Lecturer at the

University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, where she taught

macroeconomics, International Trade and International Economics. Her

research interests include international trade and modelling international

capital and labour movements. Walmsley developed a global bilateral

migration model and database that has been used to examine issues

related to migration in Asia and North America. This database was also

used in the World Bank's 2006 Global Economic Prospects and was

recently extended to create a times series bilateral migration database by

gender. Walmsley is also co-editor of a new book to be published later this year which

documents the Dynamic GTAP model and provides a number of illustrative applications of the

model to global trade and environmental policy. Terrie is also involved in organizing the Center's

courses and conference, supervising graduate students and oversees the team constructing the

GTAP Data Base.

Hong (Holly) Wang

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University

Professor Wang joined the department in 2007. She worked at

Washington State University for ten years prior to that as Assistant and

then Associate Professor. Her research has been focused on

agricultural risks, insurance, and food safety. She has published over

40 peer reviewed journal articles, a book and many book chapters. Dr.

Wang has advised ten PH.D. students as their major professor, and

most of them are working in the finance industry today. She has taught

Ph.D level courses in supply and demand systems, decision analysis,

and marketing; Master level courses in econometrics and agribusiness

marketing; as well as undergraduate courses in corporative finance and

Chinese economy. Dr. Wang is interested in international issues, especially agricultural risks,

finance and food safety in China. She has developed a broad professional network in China as

collaborators in research, graduate student advising, and undergraduate teaching. Dr. Wang is

the past President of Chinese Economists Society (www.china-ces.org), a US based organization

focusing on the research of Chinese economic issues, and the founding Chair of China Section of

AAEA.

http://www.china-ces.org/

Appendix B, Page 22

Steven Wu

Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Professor Wu has been an associate professor at The Ohio State

University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of

Applied Contract Theory and Incentive Systems, Applied

Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Regulation and Public

Policy related to Agricultural Contracting. He earned his Ph.D. from

the University of California Berkeley in Agricultural and Resource

Economics in December 2001. Much of his work centers around

contract theory and applied contracting issues in agriculture. His

current interests are in contract regulation and contract legislation in

agriculture; the empirical testing of incentive systems; and the design

of optimal pricing and incentive schemes for marketing, production,

and supply contracting. He is also interested in the study of informal

incentives used by individuals and organizations to manage performance and regulate economic

activity, both in developed and developing countries. Steve is also on the Research Faculty at

the Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory at Purdue, a Research Fellow with the

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, and a Honorary Fellow on the Faculty

of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne.

Appendix B, Page 23

POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Csilla Lakatos


Upon completion of her doctorate, Dr. Lakatos joined the Center for

Global Trade Analysis working with the U.S. International Trade

Commission in Washington, D.C. expanding the capacity of analysis in

the policy implications of services and/or investment related policy

measures. Dr. Lakatos is currently developing a model which focuses on

foreign direct investment and the activities of multinational companies in

a computable general equilibrium setting. The objective of this work is to

broaden the Commission’s capacity to provide expert analysis and information to Congress and

the executive branch via both formal reports and informal technical assistance. In addition, this

collaboration is aimed to further develop the USITC-GTAP relationship.

Kemal Sarica

Ph.D. Bogazici University, Turkey

Dr. Sarica works in the field of energy economics with Dr. Wallace Tyner

including data collection, economic analysis and energy policy research on

a wide ranging set of energy policy issues. His principal research is energy

market modeling, and he is currently investigating the electricity market,

using an agent based modeling scheme with in a network constrained

infrastructure utilizing AC OPF in his PhD thesis. He also has an interest

in policy design / implementations and resulting market responses in terms

of price volatility / levels and investments.

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

Ph.D. George Washington University

Dr. Steinbuks’ areas of expertise are in energy and environmental

economics, and the economics of financial markets with a particular focus

on households’ and firms’ investment problems. He is currently working

on a large research project in collaboration with the Center for Robust

Decision Making under Uncertainty at the University of Chicago on the

optimal allocation of global land use and GHG mitigation in agriculture in

the presence of uncertainty and irreversibility. He is also taking the lead on

the processing of IEA Energy data for the GTAP Data Base and collecting inputs for a

restructuring of the GTAP energy module. Dr. Steinbuks has extensive experience in academia,

public sector and international institutions.

Appendix B, Page 24

Monica Verma


Dr. Verma works in the Center for Global Trade Analysis conducting

GTAP-based analysis of climate change. She is currently investing the

relationship between the energy and commodity markets including the

aspects of climate change and energy policy mandate. This work is being

done in collaboration with Stanford University and is funded by the U.S.

Department of Energy. She is also looking into the relationship between

climate induced yield uncertainty and implied uncertainty in trade flows.

Appendix B, Page 25

ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Angel Aguiar

Database Construction Specialist, Ph.D. Purdue University

Dr. Aguiar joined the Department in 2010 as a Research Economist and

Data Base Construction Specialist working for the Center for Global

Trade Analysis (GTAP). His research interests include economic

modeling of international trade and movements of factors of production.

He also teaches the GTAP Short Courses and works with Input-Output

data contributors in their efforts to contribute quality data.

Meghan Alexander

Program Manager, Center for Global Trade Analysis, M.Ed. University

of Missouri-St.Louis

Meghan Alexander joined the Department of Agricultural Economics as

Program Manager in July 2007. Her responsibilities include managing

the Center's programs both at home and abroad, marketing the Center's

programs and products, building relationships with the Center's funding

bodies and University departments, developing new programs, seeking

new funding opportunities, and overseeing the Center's finances, book

and paper series.

Ginger Batta

Communications and IT Specialist, B.S. Purdue University

Ginger Batta joined the Department of Agricultural Economics as the

Communications and Information Technology Specialist for the Center

for Global Trade Analysis in December of 2004. Her primary

responsibilities include the design, development, and maintenance of the

GTAP website, GTAP Short Course preparatory websites, and the

AgEcon 618 course website. Outside of this, she is also responsible for

the sales, distribution, and reporting of all GTAP products as well as the

online organization of the Center’s core events including the Annual

Conference on Global Economic Analysis and Short Courses in Global Trade Analysis.

Appendix B, Page 26

Lou Ann Baugh

Graduate Coordinator, B.S. Purdue University

Lou Ann serves as Graduate Coordinator and Graduate Advisor to the

departmental graduate program of 90+ students in the Master of

Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs. She develops the

graduate recruitment program for Agricultural Economics, and serves

as the thesis format advisor and iThenticate Administrator. Lou Ann is

the Building Deputy for Agricultural Economics which includes 250+

rooms in the Krannert Building. She also serves as Editor of Keeping

Track, the Departmental monthly online newsletter.

Liza Braunlich

Distance Education Specialist, B.S. Purdue University

Liza has been the Distance Education Specialist for the center since

2/2000. She develops and delivers distance-delivered and web-supported

programming, manages the development of password-protected website

features and content to fulfill instructional programming needs, trains

faculty, teaching assistants and students on the course tools used in

distance delivery, benchmarks, evaluates and implements new features in

distance delivered educational opportunities, assists in the development of

new programming in conjunction with center Project Managers and

faculty, works with Project Managers of custom non-degree programming

to determine the consistency of content and mapping of participant

workload, collect and assess evaluation results and integrate feedback to improve curriculum and

its delivery, plans and develops websites for non-credit web supported courses and non-credit

courses delivered totally via distance.

Amy Cochran

Academic and Internship Coordinator

Amy Cochran is the Academic and Internship Coordinator for the

department. She is responsible for managing logistical, physical, and

operational aspects of two very popular courses within the school of

Agriculture (AGEC 331, Sales and Marketing, and AGEC 431, Advanced

Sales and Marketing). This includes the direct supervision of 10

undergraduate teaching assistants, program development, developing and

proposing operating budgets for these courses, and managing the

resources allocated to these courses. In addition, Amy develops and

maintains positive working relationships with industry professionals for

fund raising and the assistance with student projects within the Sales and

Marketing program. In her work with students, she assists with advisees in the sales and

marketing curriculum and maintains contact with Sales and Marketing graduates.

Appendix B, Page 27

Kim Cook

Assistant Computer Services Manager

Kim teaches AGEC 202, a required intermediate level course in

spreadsheets for undergraduate students. He is also an academic advisor

for 25-30 undergraduate Agricultural Economics majors, and assists with

the administration/maintenance of the Ag Econ computer network and its

clients.

Harlan Day

Executive Director, Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE), Ph.D., Purdue University

Dr. Day directs the Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE), an

organization dedicated to economic and financial literacy. Founded in

1954, the ICEE's helps K-12 teachers to be more effective in teaching

the basics of our economic system. The ICEE disseminates its

professional development programs and materials through a statewide

network of 11 university Centers for Economic Education. The ICEE,

housed in the Department of Agricultural Economics, is affiliated with

the Council for Economic Education in New York City. Some of the key

programs offered by ICEE include the popular Econ Camp for high

school teachers of economics, the statewide Economics Challenge, the

Economics Calendar Contest, and the Classroom Business Enterprise

program. ICEE has also developed the popular KidsEcon Posters website, which offers a wide

range of curriculum materials and activities for K-12 teachers and their students.

Dr. Day received his Ph.D. in 1984 from Purdue in Instructional Research and

Development. Before coming to Purdue he worked for nearly 14 years as an Economics

Education Consultant for the Indiana Department of Education. He has authored numerous

curriculum materials, including The Classroom Mini-Economy, Playful Economics, Trading

Around the World, Economics Experiences, Herschel’s World of Economics, What Personal

Finance Is About, and Energy, Economics, and the Environment.

Appendix B, Page 28

Luanna DeMay

Program Manager, Purdue/IU Kelley School of Business, MS/MBA in Food

and Agribusiness Management, Sawyer College of Business graduate

Luanna DeMay is the Program Manager for the MS-MBA in Food and

Agricultural Business program, beginning in July of 1999. She shares

responsibility for development, implementation and promotion of this

distance delivered graduate program. Luanna is also responsible for

scheduling, planning and implementing logistical details of on campus

residencies and serves as a point of contact for students, other professional

staff and the University. She is also the liaison for the Kelley School of Business Kelley Direct

program.

Angela Gloy

Farm Business Planning Specialist, Ph.D. Purdue University

Dr. Angela Gloy is a Farm Business Planning Specialist in the

Department of Agricultural Economics. Her emphasis is farm family

succession planning, including retirement and estate planning issues

that accompany the transfer process. She works closely with the farm

community on programming, developing written planning tools for

farmers, and promoting all of the planning processes (e.g., business,

marketing, estate, retirement, and succession) relevant to farm

businesses. In addition, Angela teaches AGEC 425: Estate Planning

and Property Transfer in the department.

Alla Golub

Research Economist, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Ph.D.,

Purdue University

Dr. Golub, an expert in modeling global land use issues is working on

various climate change mitigation policy issues related to land based

activities, including land use change impacts of biofuels and analysis

of global GHG mitigation potential in land using sectors. Dr. Golub

worked on the California Air Resources Board project to assess the

indirect land use impacts of biofuels production, and on the European

Commission project aimed at reconciling indirect land use impacts

from biofuels which have been estimated using diverse modeling frameworks.

Appendix B, Page 29

Aissa Good

Senior Program Manager, Center for Food and Agriculural Busienss

B.S. Middle Tennessee State University

Aissa Good serves as a senior project manager for the Center for Food and

Agricultural Business and the Center for Commercial Agriculture in the

Department of Agricultural Economics. In this role, she is responsible for

identifying engagement opportunities, managing client and sponsor

relationships, and designing and implementing professional development

programs for farmers and agribusiness managers both domestically and

overseas. More specifically, Aissa cultivates client relationships and leads

curriculum development in collaboration with client management and

program faculty. Projects under her direction range from multi-session

business management development programs to workshops enhancing key account management

and market strategy planning skills of field sales and marketing personnel.

Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan

Database Administrator, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Ph.D., IGIDR

(Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research), Mumbai.

Since 2007, Dr. Gopalakrishnan has been working at the Center for Global

Trade Analysis on the construction of the GTAP database and its

documentation, teaching in the courses and conducting research on various

economic issues, particularly on international trade and industry-related

issues using CGE and econometric models. His other areas of interests

include Labour Economics, Productivity Analysis, Demand Analysis and

Environmental Economics. He has many publications in peer-reviewed

national and international journals and books. He has also presented many

of his research papers in national and international conferences.

Appendix B, Page 30

Jeff Greiner

Web Communications Coordinator, B.S. Northwest Missouri State

University

Jeff joined the Agricultural Economics team on August 20, 2003. His

major responsibilities are in providing the content for the departmental

web servers, assisting departmental employees conducting video

conferences, as well as course content delivery via the Blackboard

Curriculum system. He is responsible for the layout and design of the

PAER quarterly newsletter, as well and the monthly newsletter the

AgEcon Update. He also maintains the Departmental Twitter account.

Prior to joining Purdue, Jeff worked for the Southeast Kansas Education

Service Center (also known as Greenbush), located in Girard, Kansas.

His responsibilities included the delivery of technical support and staff development training to

the nearly 200 school districts that Greenbush serviced. During this time he was based out of

Lawrence, Kansas. Other past work experience includes serving as the Director of Technology

for the Hampton-Dumont Community School District in Hampton, Iowa, as well as being a math

and science teacher at Harding Middle School in Des Moines, Iowa.

Jill Hufford

Account Clerk IV, Business Office

Jill joined the department the end of April 2009 after being in the

Agronomy Business office for 6 ½ years. Her duties include: Graduate

student & Monthly payroll, Faculty Account management, Faculty &

Staff PAR’s, billings, reporting, supervising the Business office staff,

credit card management & reconciliations to name a few items.

Betty Jones-Bliss

Associate Director, Center for Food and Agricultural Business, M.S. Purdue University

Betty directs the development, design and delivery of custom

educational solutions which meet the needs of corporate clients. In this

role, she leads curriculum development in collaboration with client

company management and program instructors, develops individual

subject areas important to client learners, and cultivates and manages

new and existing client relationships. Specific projects under her

direction range from on-site, multi-seminar management and

leadership development programs for top-tier corporate professionals,

to executive level seminars designed to promote strategic thinking in

the food supply chain.

Appendix B, Page 31

Kristyn Kapetanovic

Marketing Assistant, B.A, Purdue University

Kristyn Kapetanovic is the marketing assistant for the Center for Food

and Agricultural Business. Kristyn’s focus is implementing the

center’s various marketing efforts for its open enrollment seminars and

conferences and custom programs. She coordinates the center’s data

management system, leads the production of program materials,

assists with the development and distribution of articles with trade

press, and manages program Web sites.

Robert McDougall

Deputy Director, Center for Global Trade Analysis, B.Commerce,

University of Melbourne

Robert McDougall has worked in quantitative economic analysis,

especially CGE modeling, with the Australian Industry Commission,

the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University, and now at Purdue.

He has led several CGE model development projects, including

TYCOON (finance sector extensions to a single-country CGE model),

SALTER (a multi-country model), ORANI-E (energy sector extensions

to a single country model), and a dynamic version of the GTAP model.

Current activities include maintenance and development of the GTAP

data base, development and applications with dynamic GTAP, and

application of entropy/information theory methods to data base construction.

Appendix B, Page 32

W. Alan Miller

Farm Business Management Specialist, M.S. University of Tennessee

Mr. Miller joined the staff at Purdue University in January, 1995.

Previously he had served eleven years as an Extension Economist for

Auburn University and five years as an Area Extension Specialist in

Farm Management for the University of Kentucky. He became a

Certified Public Accountant in 1991.

Mr. Miller's primary Extension education focus is on providing training

and educational materials for farmers in such farm business

management subject matter areas as accounting, business organization,

budgeting, finance, management development, and management

succession planning. He coordinates the annual Indiana Farm

Management Tour for the Agricultural Economics Department and co-coordinates the annual

Farming Together Workshop. He monitors agricultural input costs for the Department’s

Agricultural Outlook programs and is a co-author of the Purdue Crop Cost and Return Guides.

Mr. Miller taught AGEC 425, Estate Planning and Property Transfer, at Purdue University from

1996 -2010. He also co-taught AGEC 311, Accounting for Farm Business Planning, from its

inception in 1997 through 2000. Mr. Miller returned to teaching AGEC 311 in the fall of 2010.

Mr. Miller’s most recent refereed journal article is entitled “Farm Enterprise Analysis: Has It

Lost Its Usefulness,” which was published in 2010 in the Journal of the American Society of

Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. He is currently a co-principal investigator on a USDA

National Research Initiative grant entitled “Intergenerational Transfers for Strong and

Sustainable Small and Medium-Sized Farm Family Businesses” and on a North Central Region

Risk Management Education Center Grant entitled “Enhancing Landlord/Tenant Relationships in

Volatile Markets: Managing Financial, Legal, and Human Risks.”

Mr. Miller is a Past President of the national Farm Financial Standards Council, the Purdue

University Cooperative Extension Specialist's Association, and the National Association of Farm

Business Analysis Specialists.

Appendix B, Page 33

Kim Mullen

Business Manager / Training Coordinator

Kim spends half of her time as Ag. Econ’s Business Manager. Her

duties include: projections and financial reporting on the departmental

budget, annual budget preparation, management of the base budget,

special projects and coordinates business aspects for the

department. The other half of her time she serves as the business

office training coordinator for staff in the College of Agriculture,

Veterinary Sciences and Health and Human Sciences. Prior to joining

the Agricultural Economics Department, Kim worked as a Business

Assistant in the Biochemistry Business Office.

Andrew Oppy

Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Programs, B.S. Purdue University

In this position Andy advises undergraduate students in academic,

career, and personal planning. He also works to recruit incoming

students, assist with scholarship distribution and supports the

Academic Coordinator with various other functions of the department.

Andy is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Advisor award from

Purdue University Academic Advising Association, and he also

received the Outstanding New Advisor Certificate of Merit in the

Academic Advising-Primary Role category from the National

Academic Advising Association (NACADA). The award is presented

to individuals who have demonstrated qualities associated with

outstanding academic advising of students and who have served as an adviser for a period of

three or fewer years.

Penny Pava

Administrative Assistant, Schedule Deputy, B.S, Saint Mary of the

Woods

Penny is the administrative assistant for the undergraduate advising

area. She supports Prof. Craig Dobbins, Prof. Frank Dooley, Ms.

LeeAnn Williams and Mr. Andy Oppy and works closely with

undergraduate students. She began working in the Department of

Agricultural Economics in 2007, having been at Purdue University

since 1994. As Departmental Schedule Deputy, she builds the

departmental schedule of undergraduate and graduate classes within

the time-place-staff constraints each semester. Penny received the

department award for Outstanding Service. The award recognized Penny for her role as Course

Schedule Deputy and for her administrative professional support of the undergraduate programs

and advisors.

Appendix B, Page 34

Kwamena Quagrainie

Director of Aquaculture Marketing, Ph.D., University of Alberta

Dr. Quagrainie joined the department in 2005 as Director of

Aquaculture Marketing with a joint appointment in the departments of

Agricultural Economics (70%) and Forestry and Natural Resources

(30%). He is also affiliated with the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College

program as Aquaculture Economics and Marketing Specialist. His

research interests lie in the areas of market analysis, market definition,

facilitating the development of distribution and market structures,

identification of value-added opportunities for aquaculture products

and feeds, and development of enterprise budgets. Kwamena works

with the aquaculture industries in Illinois and Indiana, aquaculture producers, aquaculture

associations, distributors, restaurants, retail outlets, and consumers to develop viable markets for

Indiana and Illinois farm-raised aquaculture products.

Dr. Quagrainie’s primary extension responsibilities focus on providing assistance to aquaculture

producers in pursuing and realizing economic and market development opportunities. He also

provides training and educational materials for farmers and Extension Educators in the farm

business management area of enterprise budgets. Kwamena has a great interest in international

work. He directs an Aquaculture and Fisheries Collaborative Research Support Program

(AquaFish CRSP) in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania funded by USAID. Kwamena is an active

member of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), the International

Association of Aquaculture Economics & Management (IAAEM), and World Aquaculture

Society (WAS). He serves the aquaculture profession in various capacities including guest editor,

Aquaculture Economics and Management (AEM); session organizer, chair and moderator at

various WAS conferences; member of USDA National Organic Program (NOP) Aquatic Species

Task Force; member of the AquaFish CRSP Development Themes Advisory Panel; Indiana

representative & chair of the North Central Region Aquaculture Center (NCRAC) Extension

Technical Executive Committee; and the Indiana representative at the National Association of

State Aquaculture Coordinators (NASAC). Kwamena has co-authored a book on aquaculture

marketing and authored over 30 articles in peer-reviewed professional journals. In 2009, he

received the Distinguished Early Career Award from the US Aquaculture Society (USAS).

Appendix B, Page 35

Danielle Quirk

Event Manager, Center for Food and Agricultural Business, B.A, Ball State University

Danielle Quirk is an event manager for the Center for Food and

Agricultural Business. She is responsible for managing all of the

logistical details pertaining to hosting a center seminar, workshop or

conference. Danielle manages these programs on campus, statewide,

nationally, and even internationally depending on the location and needs

of the client with whom she works. Danielle’s goal in this position is to

provide thorough logistical planning and high-quality support to staff,

faculty and participants alike, by addressing all inquiries and requests

and facilitating a smooth and enriching Purdue learning experience.

Jeffrey Sanson

Assistant Director, Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE),

M.S., Purdue University

Jeff Sanson is responsible for ICEE program administration and project

development. He is also the statewide coordinator of the Indiana Stock

Market Game. Jeff works closely with the ICEE network of University

Centers for Economic Education as well to plan, develop and present

economic and financial education curriculum training sessions to K-12

teachers. He also serves as a liaison between ICEE and external

constituencies such as the Indiana Council for the Social Studies,

Indiana Business Educators, Family and Consumer Science Educators,

and the Indiana Jump$tart Coalition as well as the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and St.

Louis’s education outreach committees. In overseeing the ICEE’s technology enhanced

initiatives, he coordinates and manages ICEE digital outreach efforts through e-mail, blog, and

other social network sites. He has also designed and developed online teacher professional

development courses and webinars.

April Sauer

Managing Director, Center for Food and Agricultural Business, MBA

Wake Forest University

April’s primary responsibilities include serving as chief operating officer

and chief financial officer for the center. April manages daily operations

and staff, along with the yearly management and projection of workload

for the professional staff team. She monitors gross revenue of almost $2

million per year. April comes to the center after a 12-year career in

healthcare operations.

Appendix B, Page 36

Megan Sheridan

Marketing Manager, Center for Food and Agricultural Business, MBA

Baker College

Megan Sheridan is the marketing manager for the Center for Food and

Agricultural Business in the Department of Agricultural Economics at

Purdue University. In this role, Megan manages the marketing campaigns

for various professional development programs, as well as the overall

marketing strategy for the center. On a day-to-day basis, Megan writes and

edits copy, manages the production of printed and electronic

communication pieces, supervises a graphic design team, and strives to

enhance the image of the center and its programs through clear and consistent application of

marketing communications tactics.

Lee Stanish

Project Manager, Center for Food and Agricultural Business, M.S. Purdue

University

Lee Stanish’s primary responsibilities are business development,

relationship management with key agribusiness clients and

program/content development. Specifically, Lee focuses on establishing

new custom program opportunities and selling the center’s public

programs. He assesses client needs, designs program content and aligns

appropriate faculty resources, evaluates program effectiveness and

executes marketing campaigns. Lee joined the center after spending five

years in Purdue’s International Programs in Agriculture office where he

designed and coordinated international Extension education programs and research.

Shelly Surber

Program Coordinator, Indiana Council for Economic Education

Shelly joined the Indiana Council for Economic Education in May,

1998. Her duties include ICEE Account Management, budgets, proposals

& grants submission/reporting, reconciling ICEE accounts, financial

reporting, coordination of ICEE events, workshops, meetings, maintain

ICEE and KidsEcon Posters websites, design and distribute Hoosier

Economist and ICEE News.

Appendix B, Page 37

Farzad Taheripour

Energy Economist, Associate with the Center for Global Trade Analysis

(GTAP),

Ph.D. University of Illinois, Champaign

Dr. Taheripour’s research interests are in the area of energy, natural

resource, macro and micro economic modeling, and econometrics. He has

published several papers and chapter books in these areas in recent years.

His current research focuses on developing macro and micro economic

models to analyze and quantify economic and environmental consequences

of biofuel production and policy. He is a key person in developing GTAP-

BIO model and its database which have been frequently used by

independent researchers, governmental agencies, and international organizations to evaluate the

economic and environmental impacts of biofuels. He has received several research grants form

national and international organization.

His Ph.D. dissertation has been selected as an outstanding dissertation by the Department of

Consumer and Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Debby Weber

Assistant to the Department Head, B.A., Purdue University

Debby joined the department in 1999, and has broad responsibilities in the

daily operations, management, and communications of the department and

previously served as the department course schedule deputy. She

supervises the clerical support staff and manages work flow. She is the

Office of International Students and Scholars liaison and manages the

visiting scholar program and employee visa application/renewal processes.

She is the search coordinator and manager for faculty and administrative

professional searches, and as the Affirmative Action liaison ensures

procedural and records compliance. Debby is Managing Editor for the

Keeping Track annual newsletter.

Appendix B, Page 38

LeeAnn Williams

Director of Advising, Undergraduate Programs, M.S., Purdue

University

LeeAnn oversees the Department of Agricultural Economics

Academic Advising and Student Services. She manages four faculty

advising teams who provide academic advising for 400+

undergraduate students. LeeAnn provides regular detailed, timely

information updates throughout the semester for advisors, as well as

conducts periodic advisor meetings and directs implementation of

universities policies and procedures as they relate to the advising

office.

She manages day-to-day operation of advising activities including, but not limited to:

registration, Day on Campus, re-entry, readmission, retention, course substitutions, probation,

graduation audits, graduation rosters, plans of study, etc. LeeAnn develops appropriate policies

and procedures dealing with academic advising for Agricultural Economics students.

LeeAnn provides leadership to and directs the functions of student recruitment, career placement,

scholarship, and student development for the department and works with the College of

Agriculture Recruitment and Scholarship Coordinators to manage the activities of these various

functions. She is responsible for superv ising the development of recruitment materials and

communication with prospective and admitted students. LeeAnn manages the scholarship and

awards selections and the reporting process and provides leadership to the Agricultural

Economics Envoy student program.

She also advises 120+ undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Agricultural

Economics (including information about academic majors and careers, interprets test results,

maintains records, registration and schedule revisions). LeeAnn meets with new transfer and

CODO students and evaluates their academic history to develop a plan to meet their future

goals. She also teaches two sections of AGEC 298, Sophomore Seminar.

Appendix B, Page 39

Carol Wood

Computer Services Manager, M.A. Ball State University

Carol began her employment with the Department of Agricultural

Economics on October 1, 1990. She is responsible for the Ag Econ

computer network. The network consists of several Windows servers

for approximately 200 faculty, staff, clerical and graduate students as

well as WWW servers for instructional and informational use.

Included with the support of the network is technical support, software

installation, training and help desk support.

Monica Woods

Managing Director, Center for Global Trade Analysis, M.A. Ball State

University

Monica Miller Woods joined Purdue University's Center for Global

Trade Analysis as the Managing Director in April 2011. She earned a

Certificate in Organizational Management from the University of

Arizona, a six-year program co-produced by the U.S. Chamber of

Commerce, and a certificate in fundraising principles from the Indiana

University School of Philanthropy. From the Convention Liaison

Council, she earned the Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)

professional designation. She is a member of the American Society of

Association Executives (ASAE), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)

and Meeting Professionals International (MPI). Monica’s primary responsibilities at the Center

for Global Trade Analysis include managing the day-to-day operations; maximizing graduate

student, staff, volunteer and financial resources; creating new and enhancing existing strategic

partnerships; and increasing local and global awareness through marketing, communication and

outreach strategies.

Appendix B, Page 40

ADMNISTRATIVE AND BUSINESS SUPPORT STAFF

Vicki Bower

Clerk V, Business Office, B.S. University of Delaware

Vicki is responsible for projections and account management,

reconciling credit cards, leave absences for AP staff and faculty,

monthly payroll for AP staff and faculty, auditing travel requests,

reimbursements and invoice vouchers.

Angie Flack

Secretary V, Department Events Coordinator

Angie provides support for nine faculty within Agricultural

Economics: Drs. Freddie Barnard, Jim Binkley, Larry DeBoer, Jim

Eales, Joan Fulton, Gerry Harrison, Nestor Rodriguez, Jerry Shively

and AP Staff Kwamena Quagrainie. She assists Dr. Craig Dobbins

with the Land Value Survey and is clerical support for the New

Ventures Team under the direction of Dr. Fulton. Angie coordinates

all department events such as the Annual James C. Snyder Memorial

Lecture, Distinguished Ag Alumni, Springfest, Homecoming, the

annual Recognition Reception and many others. Angie manages

subscriptions and mailings for the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report (PAER), as well as all

mailings for Dr. Harrison’s Estate Planning Workshops. Angie received the Department of

Agricultural Economics’ 2011 Outstanding Service Award for clerical staff.

Neisha Kennedy

Secretary V, Business Office

Neisha processes the biweekly payroll and is the auditor and resource

person for all travel in the department. Her duties include handling gift

processing and cash deposits as well as wire transfers.

Appendix B, Page 41

Linda Klotz

Secretary V, B.A., Purdue University

Linda provides support for Drs. Abbott, Baker, Balagtas, Doering,

Gramig, Hertel, Hurt, Paarlberg, Sesmero, Taheripour, Villoria, Walmsley

and assists Dr. Holly Wang with planning and logistics of the Purdue-

SWUFE China Joint Program in Agribusiness Management.

Brenda Pearl

Secretary V, Secretary to the Department Head

Brenda is the secretary to the Head of Agricultural Economics, as well as

five full professors, and the Department's Extension Secretary. She is the

liaison between Agricultural Economics faculty and the executive staffs

and faculty in many other departments in the University. Brenda also

serves as the Office Manager and Receptionist for the Agricultural

Economics Department. She is the initial contact for internal and external

customers and visitors. She is responsible for internal and external

communications with faculty, staff, and county extension office agents.

She was the first recipient of the Department’s Outstanding Service

Award.

Marsha Pritchard

Secretary V

Marsha works three-quarter time providing support for Drs. Corinne

Alexander, Raymond Florax, Roman Keeney, Maria Marshall and

Brigitte Waldorf. She also assists with the workshop, An Introduction to

Starting a Specialty Food Business in Indiana.

Appendix B, Page 42

Michelle Query

Secretary V, Office Manager for the Center for Agricultural Business

In this position, Michelle is responsible for the day-to-day operation of

the center. She oversees all faculty and staff travel and reimbursement,

manages the center’s program and meeting calendar, and ensures that

the office runs smoothly each day. Michelle is always willing to lend a

hand whenever there’s a need.

Appendix C, Page 1

APPENDIX C

FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS 2006 - TO DATE

Date Institution Award Name

2006

2006 USASBE Coleman Travel Scholarship for

Entrepreneurship Educators

Maria Marshall

2006 PUCESA Career Extension Specialist Award Janet Ayres

2006 Community Dev Society Awards Community Development Achievement Award Janet Ayres

2006 College of Ag D Woods Thomas Award Jessica Perdew

2006 Purdue Distinguished Professor Michael Boehlje

2006 AAEA Distinguished Teaching Award Less than 10

years

Christine Wilson

2006 Purdue Fellows - Teaching Academy Executive Council Christine Wilson

2006 College of Ag Frederick L. Hovde Award Marshall Martin

2006 Purdue Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit Undergrad

Teaching

Christine Wilson

2006 AAEA Outstanding Agricultural Economics Extension

Website

Marshall INVenture (Ag Innovation

& Commercialization Ctr)

2006 AAEA Outstanding M.S. Thesis Yao

2006 College of Ag Outstanding Service to Students Award LeeAnn Williams

2006 PUCESA Senior Extension Specialist Award Jay Akridge

2006 PUCESA Team Award New Ventures Team (Ag Innovation

& Commercialization Ctr)

2006 College of Ag Outstanding Grad Faculty Mentor Ken Foster

2006 University Purdue Panhellenic Assoc. Outstanding

Professor

Frank Dooley

2006 University Purdue Panhellenic Assoc. Outstanding

Professor

Robert Taylor

2006 University Appointed to the Wickersham Chair of

Excellence in Ag Research

Matthew Holt

Appendix C, Page 2

2007

2007 USASBE 2nd Year Coleman Travel Scholarship Winner

Entrepreneurship Educators

Maria Marshall

2007 USASBE Small Business Admin. Best Doctoral Paper Maria Marshall, Whitney Peake

2007 University A/P Promotion Luanna DeMay

2007 College of Ag Agricultural Research Award Gerald Shively

2007 College of Ag D.Woods Thomas Memorial Award to Support

Intl. Studies

Katherine Baldwin

2007 College of Ag D.Woods Thomas Memorial Award to Support

Intl. Studies

Vanessa DeVeau

2007 College of Ag Deans Team Award Joan Fulton, Maria Marshall and

others

2007 University Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit Allan Gray

2007 University Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit Will Masters

2007 Outstanding Research Paper Presentation

Award/Boston

Priya Bhagowalia

2007 University Purdue Ag Alumni Association Certificate of

Distinction

Danita Rodibaugh

2007 University Purdue Ag Alumni Association Certificate of

Distinction

Dave Downey

2007 College of Ag Richard L. Kohls Outstanding Undergraduate

Teacher

Christine Wilson

2007 University Violet Haas Sarahelen Thompson

2007 University Honorary Advisors for the Iron Key Class of

2007

Jay Akridge

2007 University Honorary Advisors for the Iron Key Class of

2007

Robert Taylor

2007 AAEA Quality of Communication Thomas Hertel

2007 AAEA Distinguished Extension Outreach Allan Gray

2007 NACTA Teaching Award of Merit Christine Wilson

2007 AJARE Best Article in AJARE in 2006 Blackwell Price Joseph Balagtas

2007 University of Copenhagan Foreign Affiliate of the Centre for Industrial John Connor

Appendix C, Page 3

Economics

2007 National Assoc. Economic

Educators

John C. Schramm Leadership Award Harlan Day

2007 University Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy Maria Marshall

2007 Epsilon Sigma Phi, Lambda

Chapter

State Senior Faculty Continued Service Award Janet Ayres

2007 National Assoc. Conservation

Districts

NACS Friend of Conservation Award Janet Ayres

2008

2008 Purdue Purdue Ag Alumni Association Certificate of

Distinction

Marshall Martin

2008 USASBE 3rd Year Coleman Travel Scholarship Winner

for Entrepreneurship Ed.

Maria Marshall

2008 Hoosier Environmental Council Sustainable Agriculture Outreach Award Maria Marshall

2008 Purdue Academic Advising Assoc Outstanding Advisor Award Lee Ann Williams

2008 National Association of

Conservation Districts

Friend of Conservation Award Janet Ayres

2008 University University Faculty Scholar Gerald Shively

2008 University Charles B Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate

Teacher Award

Christine Wilson

2008 University Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award David Perkis

2008 Department Outstanding Service to Students Award LouAnn Baugh

2008 Purdue Teaching for Tomorrow Roman Keeney

2008 Indiana Academic Advisor

Network

Outstanding Indiana Advisor Lee Ann Williams

2008 PUCESA Career Award Chris Hurt

2008 PUCESA Senior Award Alan Miller

2008 PUCESA Junior Award Maria Marshall

2008 AAEA Best Undergraduate Student Paper Megan Sheely

2008 AAEA Distinguished Extension Program Award more

than 10 years

Michael Boehlje

2008 College Millionaire's Club Award Paul Preckel

Appendix C, Page 4

2008 Outside Bronze Award for CASE V Teresa DuBois

Exline Award. Best practices in

Communications & Marketing Category

Maria Marshall - Market Maker

2008 Purdue Professor Allan Gray

2008 American Society of Farm

Managers and Rural Appraisers

2008 Carl F. Hertz Distinguished Service to Ag

Award

Mike Boehlje

2008 Purdue Ag Alumni Award Certificate of Distinction Robert Thompson

2008 College of Ag Outstanding MS Thesis Samantha Snyder

2008 The Hoosier Environmental

Council

Sustainable Agriculture Outreach Award Maria Marshall - Market Maker

2009

2009 College of Ag Outstanding Graduate Educator Award Wally Tyner

2009 US Aquaculture Society (USAS) Early Career Award Kwamena Quagrainie

2009 Borlaug LEAP Fellowship LEAP Fellowship Miriam Otoo

2009 USDA Bruce Gardner Outstanding Visiting Economist Otto Doering

2009 NAMA Third place J.Steiner, J. Albrech, F. Burkley, S.

Egan, D. Stauffer, M.Nidlinger

J. Edwards, J.Cole, M. Baird

2009 American Antitrust Institute of

Washington DC

Senior Fellow John Connor

2009 College of Ag Richard L. Kohls Outstanding Undergraduate

Teacher Award

Frank Dooley

2009 College of Ag Charles C. Murphy Award Frank Dooley

2009 University Associate Professor Maria Marshall

2009 University Associate Professor Corinne Alexander

2009 University Associate Professor Jennifer Dennis

2009 University Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit Corinne Alexander

2009 University 2nd place Best Professor - campus-wide student

election

Robert Taylor

2009 University GA Ross Award Eric Barnard

Appendix C, Page 5

2009 University McGaughey Award Jill Steiner

2009 College of Ag Purdue Agriculture 2009 Team Award W. Tyner, K Foster, P. Preckel, F.

Dooley, O. Abdel-Latief, B. Bista,

B. Hollas, J. Hubbs, B. Stutzman, C.

Hurt

2009 University Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma

honorary member

Larry DeBoer

2009 AAEA Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award More

than 10 years

Ken Foster

2009 AAEA Distinguished Extension/Outreach Group

Award

J Fulton/Maria Marshall

2009 AAEA Quality of Communication Wally Tyner, Chris Hurt, Phil

Abbott

2009 AAEA Fellows Award John Connor

2009 University Martin C. Jischke Outstanding International

Student

John Mazunda

2009 AAEA Fellows Award Matt Holt

2009 Grad School Gary Lynn Hoover Agricultural Economics

Graduate Scholarship

Christopher Chibwana

2009 Outside 2008 Best PhD Dissertation Award from

Michigan State University

Benjamin Gramig

2009 Department Gerald and Joan Gentry Scholarship Catharine Kuber, Phil Emmert,

Kristin Fleenor

2009 College of Ag Associate Professional Rank 4 Ginger Batta, Maud Roucan-Kane

2009 University President of the Purdue Student Government

2009-2010

Adam Kline

2009 Gamma Sigma Delta 2009 Award of Merit Corinne Alexander

2009 Department Graduate Poster Competition Sarah Brechbill, David Ortega?,

Wally Tyner

2009 Department Outstanding Thesis Samantha Snyder, Susan Chen

2009 Department Outstanding Ph.D. Kathryn Boys, Phil Abbott, Wally

Tyner

2009 AAEA Graduate Student Extension Competition Award Anna Flaig

Appendix C, Page 6

2009 AAEA The Food Safety and Nutrition Section - Best

Economics Paper

Christiane Schroeter, Jason Lusk,

and Wallace Tyner

2009 AAEA Undergraduate Paper Competition Sam Clark/Corinne Alexander

advisor

2009 National Academy of Science's

Water & Science & Technology

Board Otto Doering

2009 PUCESA Junior Award Corinne Alexander

2009 Food Distribution Research Society The William Applebaum Memorial Scholarship

-2009 MS Thesis Award

David Ortega - Holly Wang major

professor

2009 AAEA President AAEA Tom Hertel

2009 AAEA Outstanding MS Thesis Uthra Raghunathan

2009 AAEA third place in Grad Student Extension

Competition

Dan Sanders

2009 Purdue Alumni Association 2009 Special Boilermaker Award Marshall Martin

2009 Council for Economic Education Adam Smith Award ICEE - Harlan Day

2009 College of Ag Millionaire's Club Kevin McNamara

2009 College of Ag Millionaire's Club John Sanders

2009 University Frederick L. Hovde Award of Excellence in

Education

Larry DeBoer

2009 University James and Lois Ackerman Professorship in


Wally Tyner

2009 PUCESA Team Award CAFO Team - Ayres, Boehlje,

DeBoer, Keeney

2010

2010 IER National Agricultural Research Service of Mali John Sanders

2010 College of Ag Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award Wally Tyner

2010 Carroll County Carroll County Ag Hall of Fame - Ag Assoc. Janet Ayres

2010 MANNRS Conference 1st Graduate Research Competition (Oral

Session-Social Science Division

Kendra Arrington

2010 Purdue Promotion AP Rhonda Bairaktaris

2010 Purdue Promotion AP Harlan Day

2010 Purdue Promotion AP Jeff Greiner

Appendix C, Page 7

2010 Purdue Promotion AP Jeff Sanson

2010 Purdue Promotion AP Debby Weber

2010 Land Grant University Tax

Education Foundation

Director George Patrick

2010 Department R Dean Dyson Scholarship Nevin Stumler

2010 Department Gerald and Joan Gentry Scholarship Leslie Byers, Brittania Cassiday,

Laura Donaldson, Kim Hoeing,

Kyle Maple, Carissa McCay, Jamie

Steiner, Beau Williamson

2010 College of Ag Townsend Outstanding Communicator in Ag -

Champion

Beau Williamson, Kim Hoeing,

others coached by C. Alexander

2010 College of Ag Townsend Outstanding Communicator in Ag -

Reserve Ch.

Chelsea Mann, Michelle Steinbarger,

others coached by F. Dooley

2010 Department Indiana Society of Farm Mgrs. and Rural

Appraisers.

Carissa McCay

2010 Department Marshall Martin Public Policy Scholarship Renee Foltz

2010 Department F. Van Smith Scholarship Sarah Jordan

2010 Department Outstanding Freshmen Ann Bechman

2010 Department Outstanding Sophomore Emily Hirsch

2010 Department Outstanding Junior Jamie Steiner, Beau Williamson

2010 Department Top Senior Scholar Ryan Rippy and Samuel Clark

2010 Department Outstanding Senior Jacob Smoker

2010 College of Ag 2010 Distinguished Ag Alumni David D. Anderson

2010 College of Ag 2010 Distinguished Ag Alumni Gregory W. Deason

2010 Department Outstanding Service to Students Luanna Demay

2010 Department Richard Kohls Outstanding Teacher Scott Downey

2010 AAEA Distinguished Individual Extension Award less

than 10 years

Maria Marshall

2010 University Promotion to Associate Professor Joe Balagtas

2010 University Promotion to Research Associate Terrie Walmsley

2010 College of Ag Team Award CAFO - Ayres, Boehlje, DeBoer,

Keeney

2010 Department Apex Award Kim Emshwiller

Appendix C, Page 8

2010 Department Apex Award Jason Henderson

2010 Department Apex Award Evelyn Ott

2010 Department Apex Award Warren Preston

2010 Department 2010 Outstanding Service Award Brenda Pearl

2010 Department Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Jason Brown (Raymond Florax -

advisor)

2010 Department Outstanding MS Thesis David Ortega - Holly Wang major

professor

2010 University 2010 Kinley Trust Award Brigitte Waldorf

2010 Legacy Award in the PrecisionAg Award Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer

2010 University President of the University Faculty Senate Joan Fulton

2010 Farm Managers and Rural

Appraisers

Gold Quill Award - Outstanding Journal Article Freddie Barnard

with Paul Ellinger and Christine Wilson

2010 College Millionaire's Club Paul Preckel

2010 College Millionaire's Club Wally Tyner

2010 PUCESA Moldy Corn Team Award Bruce Erickson, Corinne Alexander,

Chris Hurt, Jim Mintert, George

Patrick

2010 Purdue APSAC Lou Ann Baugh

2010 Indiana Assoc of Public Schools Distinguished Service Larry DeBoer

2010 BOI Volunteer Recognition Volunteer of the Year - 2010 Maria Marshall

2010 USDA-NIFA Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts with

the National Food MarketMaker Project

Maria Marshall

2011

2011 University 15 years’ service Alan Miller

2011 University 10 years’ service Liza Braunlich

2011 University 20 years’ service Carol Wood

2011 University 15 years’ service Rob McDougall

2011 Prairie Farmer Beyond The Fence Award Robert Taylor

2011 Purdue Academic Advising

Association (PACADA)

Outstanding Young Advisor Award Andy Oppy

Appendix C, Page 9

2011 Indiana Crop Improvement

Association

Crops & Soil Merit Award Marshall Martin

2011 College of Ag Deans Team Award Afghan Team - Kevin McNamara

2011 University Rose Award - Mortar Board Society Marsha Pritchard

2011 University CETA Teaching Award Patrick Ward

2011 College of Ag Outstanding Senior Jamie Steiner, Beau Williamson

2011 College of Ag Oustanding Junior Benjamin Daily

2011 University APSAC Award of Excellence Betty Jones-Bliss

2011 Department 2011 Outstanding Service Administrative

Professional

Penny Pava

2011 Department 2011 Outstanding Service Clerical Angie Flack

2011 Department 2011 Outstanding Sr. Jamie Steiner

2011 Department 2011 Outstanding Jr. Renee Foltz

Department 2011 Outstanding Sophomore Ann Bechman

Department 2011 Outstanding Freshman Travis Martin

Department 2011 Outstanding Academic Senior GPA Tied: Emily Hirsh, Chelsey Mann,

Yiyuan Xie, Li Yuan

2011 University AP Promotion - rank 4 Megan Sheridan

2011 University AP Promotion - rank 4 Meghan Alexander

2011 University AP Promotion - rank 6 Betty Jones-Bliss

2011 University Promotion - Professor Holly Wang

2011 University Promotion - Associate Professor Roman Keeney

2011 National Academic Advising

Association (NACADA)

Outstanding New Advisor Certificate of Merit Andy Oppy

2011 NAMA Reserve National Championship Kyle Maple, Michelle Steinbarger,

Kim Hoeing, Jenna Langley, Bailey

Perry, Addison Sheldon, Christy

Penner, Urooj Khan and Josh

Pottschmidt

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 40 years Gerald Harrison

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 30 years Philip Abbott

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 30 years Chris Hurt

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 30 years John Sanders

Appendix C, Page 10

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 15 years Gerald Shively

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 35 years Marshall Martin

2011 University Faculty Service Award - 25 years Jay Akridge

2011 University 2011 McGaughey Leadership Award Jamie Steiner, Beau Williamson

2011 University Martin C. Jischke Outstanding International

Student

Arman Batayev

2011 AAEA Extension Outreach less than 10 years Corinne Alexander

2011 AAEA Undergrad teaching less than 10 years Scott Downey

2011 AAEA Undergrad Teaching - more than 10 years Frank Dooley

2011 AAEA 2nd Place, Graduate Student Extension David Widmar

2011 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam Fellow Raymond Florax

2011 USDA Certificate of Appreciation - Biofuels Outreach

Forum

Wally Tyner

2011 National Academies Committee on

Economic Analysis of Final Water

Quality Standards for Nutrients for

Lakes and Flowing Waters in

Florida

Appointed as Vice Chair Otto Doering

2011 WAEA - Western Agricultural


Outstanding Extension Program Award for

Project

George Patrick, et al.

2011 Indiana Seal of Indiana Award for Excellence Program Harlan Day

Appendix D, Page 1

APPENDIX D

FACULTY PEER RECOGNITION 2006 - PRESENT

Janet Ayres

External Reviewer, Wisconsin Leadership Program

Editorial Board, Journal of Extension, 2009-2010

Editorial Board, Journal of the Community Development Society, 2005-present

Webinar Committee, Community Development Society, 2010-present

Joseph Balagtas

Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009-present

Visiting Research Fellow, International Rice Research Institute, 2010-11

Fulbright Scholar, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, 2010-11

Chair, Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section, AAEA, 2010-11

Vice-Chair, NEC-63 Research Committee on Commodity Promotion, 2009-10

Advisor, Indiana Farm Bureau State Dairy Advisory Committee, 2010-present

Freddie Barnard

Editorial Board, Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers,

Technical Committee, Farm Financial Standards Council, 2006 - Present

Michael Boehlje President and Executive Committee, Agribusiness Economics Management Section, American

Agricultural Economics Association, 2002-2005

Editorial Board, Journal of Chain and Network Science, 2001 to present

Association Foundation Board of Directors, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1998-2000

Board of Directors, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, 1998-2003

Member, Committee on Concentration and Consolidation , U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1996

Senior Associate, Centrec Consulting, Inc., 1995-present

Member, Committee on Public Sector Research and the Changing Structure of Agriculture, National

Research Council, 2000-01

Craig Dobbins

Editorial Board, Journal for the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers,

2008 – present

Reviewer, Research Proposals, Leopold Center of Sustainable Agriculture, 2010

Reviewer, Proposals, Small Business Innovation Research Program, USDA, 2009, 2010

Otto Doering

Vice Chair, National Academies, National Research Council Review of EPA’s Economic Analysis of

Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida, 2001, 2012

Member, National Academies Water Science and Technology Board, 2009

Chair, EPA Science Advisory Board Committee on Integrated Nitrogen, 2009

Member, EPA Science Advisory Board, 2008

Member, National Invasive Species Advisory Committee, Department of Interior, 2008-2011

Member, Science Advisory Board Committee on Integrated Nitrogen, EPA, 2006-2009

President, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2007-2008

Member, National Research Council Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act,

National Academies, 2006 - present

Appendix D, Page 2

Member, Blue Ribbon Panel Conducting an External Review of the U. S. Department of

Agriculture Conservation Effects Assessment Project, 2005-2006

Frank Dooley

Member, Indianapolis Roundtable Executive Board, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals,

2005-2007, 2008-2010

Member, Education Strategies Committee’s Doctoral Dissertation Award (DDA) Committee, Council of

Supply Chain Management Professionals 2009

Reviewer, Value-Added Agricultural Product Market Development Grant Program, USDA,

2005-2008, 2010

CSREES Review Team, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, USDA, 2008

Reviewer, Hatch project for Dr. Clarissa Yeap, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied

Economics, 2009

Panel Manager, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, 2010

James Eales

External Reviewer, Project Proposals for Foods and Nutrition Research Project, Economic Research

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2007 and 2010

External Reviewer, Personnel and Reports for Food and Economics Division, Economic Research

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2010-2011

External Project Reviewer, Alberta Agriculture, 2007

Invited Co-Author, Food and Consumer Economics, Centennial Issue American Journal of Agricultural

Economics 92(2):506-521

Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005-2008

Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007-

Chair, Committee to Select the Publication of Enduring Quality, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Association, 2010-11.

Raymond Florax

Fellow, Tinbergen Institute (TI), Graduate School and Institute for Economic Research of

Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam, and VU University Amsterdam, The

Netherlands, 2011- present

Fellow, Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA), 2007 - present

Fellow, Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), Wageningen University and Research Centre,

The Netherlands, 2006 -present

Fellow, Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE), National Graduate School for General and

Quantitative Economics, 2000–2010

Member, Advisory Board, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV,

2003-present

Member, Internal Executive Committee, Center for the Environment, Purdue University, West

Lafayette, 2006-present

Editor-in-Chief and European Editor, Papers in Regional Science, 1997–2006

Editorial Board Member, Papers in Regional Science, since 2006

Guest Editor, Special Issue, International Regional Science Review, 2012

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Regional Science, since 2001

Editorial Board Member, International Regional Science Review, 1995-present

Program Director, NWO-NOVEM Program “Stimulating energy efficient technologies by

small and medium sized enterprises”, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002–2007

Member, Scientific Committee, Congresses of the European Regional Science Association, 2004–2006

Appendix D, Page 3

Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd, 4th and 5th World Conference, Spatial Econometrics Association,

2008 – 2011.

Topic Leader, Rural/Community Development, 2010 Annual Conference, Agricultural and Applied

Economics Association (AAEA)

Chair, Martin Beckmann Award Jury, Best Article Published, Papers in Regional Science, 2006

Jury Member, Graduate Student Paper Competition, North American Regional Science Council, 2009

Chair, Graduate Student Paper Competition, North American Regional Science Council, 2010

Kenneth Foster

Board of Directors, Agribusiness Council of Indiana, 2008- present

Chair-Elect, National Association of Agricultural Economics Administrators, 2010-11

Chair, National Association of Agricultural Economics Administrators, 2011-12

Joan Fulton

Chairperson, Purdue University Senate, 2010-2011

Secretary, Teaching Learning and Communication Section of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Association

Brent Gloy

Chair, Agricultural Finance Markets in Transition, 2010-2011

Vice-Chair, Agricultural Finance Markets in Transition, 2009-2010

Secretary, Agricultural Finance Markets in Transition, 2008-2009

Treasurer, WERA-72: Agribusiness Scholarship Emphasizing Competitiveness, 2007-present.

Co-Guest Editor, Choices, Farmland Values, 2011

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Agricultural and Resource Economic Review 2005-2007

Associate Editor, Agricultural Finance Review, 2009-present

Gerald Harrison

Presenter, Midwest Estate Planning Seminar for Lawyers, 2010

Editor and Co-Founder, Purdue Agricultural Economics Report (PAER), 1973-present

Presenter, Estate and Family Business Transfer Planning Seminars for Indiana Lawyers, Accountants and

Insurance Producers, 1972-present

Course Developer, AGEC 455-Agricultural Law, and AGEC 456 -Federal Income Tax Law

Thomas Hertel

Vice President, AAEA Foundation Governing Board: 2004-5, Member 2003-6

International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute of World Economics: 2005- present

Editorial Advisory Council, Pacific Economic Review, 2000-present

Editorial Advisory Council, Journal of Economic Integration, 2000-present

Editorial Advisory Council, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1999 -present

James Lowenberg-Deboer

Technical Committee, Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program, 1997 - 2007

Board of Directors, International Sorghum and Millet Collaborative Research Support Program

(INTSORMIL), 2004 - present.

Chair, Board of Directors, International Sorghum and Millet Collaborative Research Support Program

(INTSORMIL), 2007 - 2009.

Board of Directors, Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004 - present.

Chair, Board of Directors, Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program, 2009-2010.

Board of Directors, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research

Support Program (SANREM), 2005 - 2009

Appendix D, Page 4

Member, Advisory Committee, Notre Dame Ford Family Program, 2010-present.

Reviewer, African Journal of Business Management

Reviewer, Agricultural Economics

Reviewer, Agricultural Systems

Reviewer, Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Reviewer, Food Policy

Reviewer, Food & Nutrition Bulletin

Reviewer, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Reviewer, Journal of Agricultural Economics

Reviewer, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Reviewer, Precision Agriculture

Reviewer, Proposal, Higher Education for Development (HED)

Reviewer, Proposal, International Foundation for Science (IFS)

Reviewer, Proposal, Partner University Fund (PUF)

Reviewer, Proposal, FACE Foundation and French Consulate, Chicago

Maria Marshall

Selected for Entrepreneurship Leadership Academy, Discovery Park’s Burton D. Morgan Center

for Entrepreneurship, Purdue University, 2007

Board Member-at-Large, Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (CWAE), AAEA, 2005

Co-Chair, NC1030, “Family Firms and Policy” Multi-State Research Committee

Board Member at Large, NC1030, “Family Firms and Policy”, Multi-State Research Committee, 2007

Member of Advisory Committee, Southern Rural Development Center E-Commerce Initiative 2007-

present

Vice-Chair, Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (CWAE), AAEA, 2007-2009

Chair, Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (CWAE), AAEA, 2009-2010

Panel member, Risk Management Education Centers, USDA, 2010

Panel member, Small Business Innovation Research Grant for Rural Development, USDA, 2010

Panel member, Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities, USDA/NSF, 2010

Panel member, Beginner Farmer Rancher Grant program, USDA, 2010 and 2011

Co-Leader, Teaching, Communication, and Extension topic area, AAEA, 2010

Member, AAEA Outreach Task Force, AAEA, 2010-2011

Topic Leader, AAEA, Teaching, Communication, and Extension topic area, AAEA, 2011

Judge, AAEA Graduate Student Extension Competition, AAEA, 2011

Member, AAEA Extension Awards Committee, AAEA, 2011-2013

Philip Paarlberg

Committee, Review of the Site Specific Risk Assessment of the National Bio-and Agro-terrorism Defense

Facility (NBAF), National Academies of Science. 2010

Committee, Updated Review of the Site Specific Risk Assessment of the National Bio-and Agro-

terrorism Defense Facility (NBAF), National Academies of Science. 2011 - 2012

George Patrick

Vice Chair, Chair and Past Chair, Senior Section, AAEA, 2005-2008

National Extension Farm Income Tax Advisory Committee, Internal Revenue Service, 1982 – present

President Elect, President, Past President, National Extension Farm Income Tax Advisory Committee,

Internal Revenue Service, 2001 - 2004

President, Board of Directors, Land Grant University Tax Education Foundation, Inc., 2002 -2007

Director, Land Grant University Tax Education Foundation, Inc., 2009 - present

Appendix D, Page 5

Paul Preckel

CSREES Review Team, University of Nevada-Reno’s Department of Agricultural and Resource

Economics, USDA, 2008

Co-Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007-2010

Editorial Board Member, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2003-2005

John Sanders

Award, National Agricultural Research Service of Mali (IER), for the contribution to agricultural

development and the diffusion of agricultural research in Mali, 2010.

Gerald Shively

Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life

Sciences, 2007 – present

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Agricultural Economics, 2006 – present

Associate Editor, Environment and Development Economics, The Beijer International Institute of

Ecological Economics, 2006 – present

Technical Committee Chair, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative

Research Support Project (SANREM CRSP), a $17 million USAID-funded project. 2004 – 2009

Wallace Tyner

Co-Chair, Committee on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels, National Academy of

Sciences, 2011

Brigitte Waldorf

Book Review Editor, Papers in Regional Science, 2005-2006

Editorial Board, Letters in Spatial and Resources Sciences, 2007 to 2009.

Editorial Board, Annals of Regional Science, 2005-present

Editorial Board, International Regional Science Review, 2009 to present

Editorial Board, Papers in Regional Science, 2007 to present

Editorial Board, Journal of Regional Science, 2010 to present

Board of Directors, Western Regional Science Association, 2005-2008

North American Councilor, Regional Science Association International, 2005-2006

Co-Organizer: Spatial Econometrics Conference, 4th World Congress, Chicago, IL, 2010

Co-Organizer, Western Regional Science Conference, San Diego, CA, 2005

Panel Member, European Union ERC Advanced Grants, 2009-2010

External Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Chair, Student Paper Competition, North American Regional Science Council, 2010

Chair, Benjamin J. Stevens Fellowship Selection Committee, 2008

Member, Benjamin J. Stevens Fellowship Selection Committee, 2005-2007, 2009-2010

H. Holly Wang

Co-Editor, China Agricultural Economic Review, 2009 - present

Editorial Board Member, China Economic Review, 2011- present

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Agricultural Finance Review, 2009 - present

Editorial Council Member, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003-2006

Founding Chair, China Section of AAEA, 2009-2010

President, Chinese Economists Society, 2008-2009

Appendix E, Page 1

APPENDIX E

PUBLICATIONS SUMMARY

Category Years

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Books 1 8 1 6 4 3

Book Chapters 13 20 14 27 26 11

Refereed Journal Articles

American Journal of Agricultural

Economics

1 3 6 1 6 5

Other Journals 48 52 60 43 62 93

Abstracts & Book Reviews in Journals 5 6 3 5 0 1

Purdue Bulletins/Reports 1 11 0 0 0 0

Non-Purdue Bulletins/Reports 3 3 7 2 0 0

Proceedings Articles 74 31 73 38 38 39

Extension Series

Extension Circulars and Similar 6 1 6 5 0 0

CES Papers and Similar 7 7 6 6 1 1

PAER 11 6 7 10 12 9

Miscellaneous Extension 34 4 22 19 36 39

Computer Documentation & Guides 0 0 1 3 0 0

Trade & Technology Journals 25 23 28 20 11 2

Staff Papers 9 17 24 17 0 0

Other Published Research Papers 12 18 11 6 14 1

Newsletters 8 23 0 0 0 0

Web Publications 6 0 0 0 0 0

Invited Lectures 0 17 0 22 0 0

Case Studies 0 0 3 2 0 0

Reports 0 0 0 7 0 0

Posters 0 0 0 0 0 2

TOTAL 264 250 269 239 210 206

Research FTE

Journal Articles per Research FTE

Appendix F, Page 1

APPENDIX F

Department of Agricultural Economics Publications Listings

Journal 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010

AJAE 1 3 6 1 6

5

Review of Agricultural Economics 1 3 1 2

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 3 5 1 3 2

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 1 2

Agricultural Economics 1 3 5 3 1 4

International Food & Agribusiness Management

Review 3 4 2 1 4

Journal of Extension 3 5 2 2

Agribusiness: An International Journal 1 1 2

Precision Agriculture 1 1 2

AgBioForum 1 1 2

Agribusiness 1

Economic Modeling 1 1

Environment and Development Economics 1 1

Journal of Agribusiness 1

Land Economics 1

Agricultural Finance Review 1 3 1 1 5

Agronomy Journal 1

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 1

Review of Development Economics 1 2

World Economy 1

Agarwirschaft

Agricultural Systems 1 1 1

Applied Economics Letters 1 2 1 1

Food Policy 4

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial

Organization 2 1 2

Journal of American Society of Farm Managers

& Rural Appraisers 1 1 5

Journal of Animal Science 2

Journal of Economic Integration 1 1

Journal of Family and Economic Issues 1

Aquaculture International 1

Appendix F, Page 2

Journal 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010

World Development 1 1

Acta Horticulturae 2

Agrekon 1

Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment

Biofuels 5

Applied Economics Letters 2 1 5

Biomass and Bioenergy 3

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 1 1

Choices 3 3 1 1

Crop Protection 1

Economic Policy 1

Economic Letters 1

European Journal of Operational Research 1

European Review of Agricultural Economics 1

Environment and Planning A 1

International Journal of Quality and Reliability

Management 1

Journal of African Economies 1 1

Journal of Agricultural Economics 3 1

Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association

Journal of Applied Resource Economics 1

International Forestry Review 1

Journal of Policy Modeling/EconModels 1

Journal of the Transportation Research Forum 1

Journal of Economics 1

Journal of Food Distribution Research 1 2

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 1

Journal of Nematology

Journal of Regional Science Association International

Journal on Chain and Network Science 1

Kwartaalschrift Economie 1

Appendix F, Page 3

Journal 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010

Pacific Economic Review 1

Journal of International Agricultural Trade and

Development 2 2

Regional Science: Policy and Practice 1

Research Management 1

Journal of Socio-Economics 1

China & World Economy 1

South African Journal of Economics and

Management Sciences 1

Climatic Change 1

World Bank Economic Review 1

Région et Développement 1

Journal of Economic Surveys 1

Measuring Business Excellence 1

Growth and Change 1 1

International Journal of Biotechnology 2

Tulane Law Review 1

HortScience 1 3 4

Experimental Agriculture 1

Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and

Education 1

Journal of International Trade and Economic

Development 1

Economic Modelling 1 2

Journal for Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and

Complaining Behavior 1

Decision Support Systems 1

Contemporary Economic Policy 1

International Journal of Agricultural Resources,

Governance, and Ecology 1

Cuestiones Economicas 1

Journal of International Affairs 1

Journal of Population Economics 1

CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture,

Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources 1

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource

Economics 1

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 1

Appendix F, Page 4

Journal 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010

Nordic Journal of Political Economy 1

Journal of Policy Modelling 1

Environmental and Resource Economics 1 1

International Journal of Industrial Organization 1 1

Concurrences: Revue des droits de la Concurrences 1 1

Antitrust Bulletin 1

International Review of Law and Economics 1

Water International 1

World Politics 1

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 2

Marine Resource Economics 1 1

Aquaculture Economics and Management 1 1 2

Journal of Marketing Channels 1

Forests, Trees, and Livelihoods 1

Spatial Economic Analysis 1

Professional Animal Scientist 2

Journal of Competition Law & Economics 1

Pennsylvania State University Law Review 1 1

Mathematical and Computer Modeling 1

Naval Research Logistics 1

Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical

Policy Issues 1

Aquaculture Research 1 1

Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 1

Review of marketing Science 1

Bioresource Technology 1 1

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 1

International Economics and Economic Policy 1

China Economic Review 2 1

Waste Management & Research 1

A Journal of Policy Development and Research 1 1

Asian Economic Journal 1

Explorations in Economic History 1

World Competition 1

Appendix F, Page 5

Journal 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010

Journal of Competition Law and Economics 1 1

Scottish Journal of Political Economy 1

Environmental Research Letters 1 1

Rural Sociology 1

Energy Economics 1 1

Group Decision and Negotiation 1

African Technology Development Forum 1

Journal of Small Business Strategy 1

Science 1

Journal of Terrestrial Observation 1

BioScience 1 2

Annals of Regional Science 1 1

Western Economic Forum 1

Resource and Energy Economics 1

Journal of Education Finance 1

Biotechnology 1

China Agricultural Economics Review 1 1

Built Environment 1

Ecological Economics 1

Southern Economic Journal 1

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension

Education 2

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 1

Journal of Dairy Science 1

Journal of Food Law and Policy 1

Journal of Swine Health and Production 1

Energy Policy 1 3

The Professional Animal Scientist 1 1

African Journal of Microbiology Research 1

International Journal of Fisheries and Aquaculture 1

Journal of Applied Science and Environmental

Management 1

The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development 1

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 1

Appendix F, Page 6

Journal 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010

Computers and Chemical Engineering 1

European Journal of Development Research 1

South Asia Economic Journal 1

American Journal of Chinese Studies 1

China Agricultural Economic Review 1

The Chinese Economy 1

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 1

Journal of Economic Entomology 1

Competition Policy International 1

European Competition Law Review 1

New European Journal of Criminal Law 1

Journal of the NACAA 2

International Journal of Physical Distribution and

Logistics Management 1

Transportation Research 1

The Journal of Nutrition 1

Economic Geography 1

Regional Science Policy and Practice 1

Environmental Science and Technology 2

Annual Review of Resource Economics 1

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2

Global Environmental Change 1

Energy Journal 2

The Review of International Economics 1

Journal of International Agriculture Extension and

Education 1

Precision Agriculture Journal 1

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 1

Appendix G, Page 1

APPENDIX G

M.S. THESES AND PHD DISSERTATIONS

2005 - Master of Science

Wendi Muir The Effects of Fair Trade Premiums on West African Cocoa Farmer Philip Abbott

Income and Production

Thuy Van Mellor An Economic Analysis of Control of the Western Corn Rootworm Corinne Alexander

Variant Across Indiana

Michael Meagher Analysis of the Potential Returns of a Corn Masa Flour Production Allan Gray

Facility Utilizing Stochastic Simulation CONFIDENTIAL

Bhawna Bista An Economic Assessment of Swine Manure Management on an Kenneth Foster

Indiana Crop-Hog Farm Under the NRCS 590 Guidelines

Fulgence Mishili Cowpea Markets and Consumer Preferences in Ghana Joan Fulton

Kathryn Boys Adoption and Economic Impact Implications of Storage James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Technology and Improved Cowpea Varieties in the North Central

Peanut Basin of Senegal

Mustafa Rafat Jamal Consumer Preferences for Cowpea Characteristics in Mali James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Timothy Zimmer The Demand for Service Quality Among Corn Masa Buyers Jayson Lusk

Whitney Oliver The Effect of Human, Financial and Social Capital on the Maria Marshall

Entrepreneurial Process for Entrepreneurs in Indiana

Carmen Haworth The Household Economic Effects on Afghan Wheat Farms Kevin McNamara

of Improved Farming Technologies

Richard Tolentino Yao Impacts of Irrigation Development on Agricultural Gerald Shively

Productivity, Resource Allocation and Income Distribution;

A Longitudinal Analysis From Palawan, the Philippines

Appendix G, Page 2

Sharon Abbott Determinants of Household Functional Food Consumption Christine Wilson

2005 - Doctor of Philosophy

Renan Zhuang China’s Agricultural Trade: An Optimal Tariff Framework Perspective Philip Abbott

Latisha Settlage Examining the Use of Farm Service Agency Guaranteed Loans Timothy Baker

by Commercial Banks

Antonio Cruz Effects of Improving Storage Efficiency on the Maize Market in T. Channing Arndt

Six Major Southern African Countries: A Spatial-Temporal Price

Equilibrium Approach

Tomas Nilsson Product and Process Certification in Imperfectly Competitive Markets: Kenneth Foster

An Application to the U.S. Pork Markets. Joan Fulton

Roman Keeney Decoupling and the WTO: Farm Sector and Household Impacts Thomas Hertel

in the United States

Dayton M. Lambert Spatial Regression Models for the Economic Analysis of James Lowenberg-DeBoer

On-Farm Site-Specific Management Trials

Alexia Brunet Protecting Only Part of our Homeland: Vulnerability Kevin McNamara

Across States and the Allocation of Federal Terrorism Funds

Mariah Tanner Ehmke The Influence of Culture on Economic Behavior with Wallace Tyner

Applications to Food and the Environment Jayson Lusk

Sang-Hak Lee Forecasting Conditional Volatility of Returns by using the Relationship Douglas Miller

Among Returns, Trading Volume, and Open Interest in Kenneth Foster

Commodity Futures Markets

Carlos E. Ludena Productivity Growth in Crops and Livestock and Implications to Thomas Hertel

World Food Trade

Appendix G, Page 3

Chowdhury Shameem Mahmoud Measuring Market Power in the U.S. Beef and Pork Industries Kenneth Foster

Christiane Schroeter Determining the Impact of Food Price and Income Changes on Body Weight Wallace Tyner

Jayson Lusk

2006 – Master of Science

Jacob AcMoody The 2007 Farm Bill: Farm-Level Financial Implications Joseph Balagtas

Syud Amer Ahmed The Liberalization of Temporary Migration: India’s Story Terrie Walmsley

Prashanth Bala Determining the Effects of Maternal Labor Force Participation Susan Chen

on Childhood Obesity

Jason Brown Methodology for Determining the Economic Feasibility of Controlled Drainage James Lowenberg-Deboer

in the Eastern Corn Belt

Maxime Caffe Economic Analysis of the French Biofuel Sector: Comparison of Wallace Tyner

Current Policy and an Alternative Variable Subsidy Policy

Zachary Thomas Cain Examining the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Use Stephen Lovejoy

Changes in the Matson Ditch Watershed

Angel Lara Chavez The Impact of Hurricane Katrina and Rita on Commodity Corinne Alexander

Futures Prices and Basis

Dana Marcellino Valuing Farm Financial Information Christine Wilson

Tyler Mark The Potential Growth of Indiana Livestock Michael Boehlje

Mesbah Motamed Towards a Better Understanding of Trade and Poverty: Wallace Tyner

The Case of White Maize in Mexico

Appendix G, Page 4

Bokar Moussa Economic Impact Assessment of Cowpea Storage James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Technologies in West and Central Africa

Audrey Muhlenkamp Why are We Losing Our Minds? A Multi-State Analysis of Rural-Urban Brigitte Waldorf

Income Disparities Among the Young, Highly Educated Workforce in the Midwest

Cecilia Paredes Socio-Economic Study of the Adoption of Genetically Modified Marshall Martin

Crops in Entre Rios, Argentina

Kevin Robertson Exploring the Profit Potential of Continuous Corn Using Linear Programming James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Marcia Salazar An Economic Analysis of Smallholder Coffee Production in Guatemala,

Honduras, Nicaragua and Vietnam Gerald Shively

Ananya Samal The Effect of Human and Financial Capital on the Entrepreneurial Process:

An Urban-Rural Comparison of Entrepreneurs in Indiana Maria Marshall

Lesley Taulman Determinants of Child Health and Nutrition: A Case Study in Montero, Bolivia Marshall Martin

Rachel Thompson An Examination of the Influences in Participation of Indiana’s Environmental

Quality Incentives Program: A Survey of Indiana District Conservationists John Lee

David Ubilava Consumers’ Willingness-to-Pay for Selected Port Attributes in the Kenneth Foster

Republic of Georgia

2006 - Doctor of Philosophy

Brian Briggeman A New U.S. Farm Household Typology: Implications for Agricultural Subsidies Allan Gray

Blondel Brinkman Farmland Preservation and Conversion: An Econometric Analysis Wallace Tyner

of the Impact for the Northeastern United States John Lee

Yuliya V. Bolotova Three Essays on the Effectiveness of Overt Collusion: John Connor

Cartel Overcharges, Cartel Stability and Cartel Success

Alla Golub Projecting the Global Economy in the Long Run: A Dynamic Thomas Hertel

General Equilibrium Approach

Appendix G, Page 5

Terry Wayne Griffin Decision-Making From On-Farm Experiments: Spatial Analysis of James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Precision Agriculture Data

Michael A. Gunderson The Economics of Delivering Service in Agribusiness Allan Gray

Anetra Harbor Assessing Agricultural Input Brand Loyalty Among U.S. Marshall Martin

Mid-Size and Commercial Producers

Sounghun Kim Analysis About the Effects of Generic Promotion in the U.S. Dairy Market Joseph Balagtas

Bobby Martens An Analysis of the Retail Grocery Industry: The Spatial Effects of Supercenters Frank Dooley

Frank Tenkorang Projecting World Fertilizer Demand in 2015 and 2030 James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Ernesto Valenzuela Entitled Poverty, Vulnerability and Trade Policy in General Equilibrium Thomas Hertel

May 2006

Michael Wilcox Farmgate Prices and Market Power in Liberalized West African Cocoa Markets Philip Abbott


Jeanne Y. Coulibaly Determinants of Participation in Dairy Market Among Agricultural

Households in Cote d’Ivoire Joseph Balagtas

John G. Dillard Hedonic Price Analysis of Indiana Agricultural Property: Craig Dobbins

A Spatial Econometric Approach Michael Boehlje

Nam Anh Tran Measuring the Efficiency of Coffee Producers in Vietnam: Do Outliers Matter? Gerald Shively

Christa Sue Hofmann Benchmarking Indiana’s Farmers’ Markets: An Evaluation of Jennifer Dennis

Market Characteristics and Organizational Structure

Jane E. Howell How the Spatial Distribution of the Student Population Affects Lawrence DeBoer

School Transportation Costs in Indiana

Appendix G, Page 6

Todd Jennison Transmission of the Choice-Select Premium Under a Live Cattle Joseph Balagtas

Grid Marketing Strategy

Kristina Kreutzer Commodity Policies and Product Differentiation:

The California Milk Marketing Order and the Organic Dairy Sector Joseph Balagtas

Alee Louise Lynch Modeling Technical Change in Midwest Corn Yields Allan Gray

Matthew Holt

Annie Pelletier The Applicability of Prize Rewards for Innovation in African Agriculture William Masters

Jessica Grace Perdew Improving Cocoa Production and Smallholder Welfare in Sulawesi: Gerald Shively

An Economic Analysis of Farm-Level Technical Adoption,

Alternatives and Outcomes

Aaron Reimer Market Segmentation Practices of Crop Input Retailers Jay Akridge

Benjamin Andrew Taylor An Analysis of ENSO’s Impact on World Vegetable Oil Prices Matthew Holt

2007 – Doctor of Philosophy

Joshua Dean Detre The Effect of Farm Savings Accounts on Farm Households’ Portfolios Michael Boehlje

Jason Hugh Grant Tariff Line Analysis of U.S. Dairy Protection Thomas Hertel

Nathan Loper Preferential Trade of Agricultural Commodities in the Caribbean Basin Kenneth Foster

Guyslain Kayembe Ngeleza Determinants of Real Income; New Tests Using Meta- William Masters

Analysis and Spatial Econometrics Raymond J.G.M Florax

Adela Nistor The Impact of Controlled Drainage on Agricultural Yields: James Lowenberg-DeBoer

A Spatial Panel Model Using Yield Monitor Data Raymond Florax

Pei Xu The Effectiveness of Business-to-Business Word-of-Mouth Marketing Strategies Jay Akridge

Timothy Zimmer Economies of Scale in Consolidation: Size and Indiana School Corporations Lawrence DeBoer

Appendix G, Page 7

2008 -- Master of Science

Benham Arjomandi The Low Hanging Fruit of RFID Frank Dooley

Katherine Baldwin Analysis of Livestock Marketing Decisions Among Pastoralists in Il Kenneth Foster

Ngwesi, Kenya

Amelie Belanger Assessment of an Integrated Bioenergy Park: An Indiana Case Study Otto Doering

Sarah C. Brechbill The Economics of Biomass Collection and Transportation and Its Supply Wallace Tyner

to Indiana Cellulosic and Electric Utility Facilities

Lydia Cox The Effects of Assembly Costs and Other Factors on the Profitability of Frank Dooley

Dry-Grind Ethanol Plants in the Midwest

Maria Cox The Magnitude of Rail Fixed Transportation Costs on the Profitability of Frank Dooley

Dry-Grind Ethanol Production in the United State

Vanessa DeVeau Pastoralists’ Attitudes Towards Conservation, Expenditure Priorities, Marie Marshall

and Income Diversification in Il N’Gwesi, Kenya

Liesel Anne Grauberger Estimating the Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on Different Phil Paarlberg

Segments of Beef Production

Brandon Mark Hollas Economic Assessment of DDGS Diets for Indiana Crop-Hog Farms Kenneth Foster

Quintrell Decoy Hollis Consumer Perceptions of Goat Meat: An Indiana Study Jennifer Dennis

Chewe Nkonde Determinants of Market Participation and Animal Health Management William Masters

of Smallholder Livestock Producers in Zambia

Carl Norden Developing a Firm Level Cost of Capital for Kansas Farms Christine Wilson

Jason L. Oliver Measurement and Effects From the Adoption of Skill Sets by Farmers Luc Valentin

Appendix G, Page 8

Anthony Charles Oliver A Watershed-Scale Cost-Effectiveness Model of Agricultural Gerald Shively

Best Management Practices for Improving Water Quality

Micah McClellan Pope Effects of U.S. Farm Policy on Equity and Efficiency Roman Keeney

Justin L. Quear The Impacts of Biofuel Expansion on Transportation and Logistics in Indiana Frank Dooley

Della Rose Serna Feasibility of Grass-Fed Cattle Production for Indiana Producers Kenneth Foster

Jenna Marie Smith Traceability of 4-H Exhibition Animals: Issue and Analysis for Joseph Balagtas

Animal Agriculture in West Central Indiana

Samantha Diane Snyder Does Access to Food Impact Health? A Study of Body Mass Susan Chen

Index in Marion County, Indiana

Mahesh Srinivasan Price Transmission and the Cotton Sector in sub-Saharan Africa Phillip Abbott

Ian Scott Van Lieu Developing Wind Energy in Indiana: A Case Study of Benton County Otto Doering

Ce Wu Risk Management by Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique Joan Fulton


Syud Amer Ahmed Outsourcing: Opportunities and Challenges for India and the USA Thomas Hertel

Jayson Fitzgerald Beckman Energy Policy Analysis in a Global Context: Applications to Wallace Tyner

Biofuels, Livestock, and Feed

Priya Bhagowalia The Distribution of Child Nutritional Status Across Countries and Over Time William Masters

Susan Chen

Kathryn Ann Boys Investment, Trade and Economic Development: Lessons from Vietnam Philip Abbott

Wallace Tyner

Manuel Duarte Filipe Bean Supply Response for Mozambique May 2008 James Lowenberg-Deboer

Appendix G, Page 9

Sika Gbegbelegbe D Ex Ante Economic Impact of Bt Cowpea in Nigeria, Niger and Benin James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Whitney Oliver Peake Experience, Farmers, and State Governments: An Entrepreneurial Perspective Maria Marshall

Ana Rocio Rios Galvez Market Participation, Productivity and Poverty Among Gerald Shively

Farm Households: Results from Tanzania, Vietnam and Guatemala William Masters

Rafael Nemba Uaiene Determinants of Agricultural Technical Efficiency and William Masters

Technology Adoption in Mozambique


Uris Lantz Caldo Baldos A Sensitivity analysis of the Lifecycle and Global Land Use Wallace Tyner

Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions of U.S. Corn Ethanol Fuel

Shellye Annette Clark Women, Goal Orientation, and Success: A Family Business Perspective Maria Marshall

Tanya J. Hall Sustainable Floriculture Practices and Certification: Growers’ Jennifer Dennis

Barriers to Adoption

Liwei Lu Assessment of the Reliability of Indiana’s Electricity Generation System Paul Preckel

Tani S. Lee Risk Management by Smallholder Farmers in the James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Mangochi district of Southern Malawi

Amanda Helen Mize Sales Training Impact Ratio: A Model for Evaluating and Michael Boehlje

Managing Sales Training

Griffin P. Moag Performance and Risk of Agricultural Assets: A Time-Varying Approach Timothy Baker

Knowledge Mupanda Market Access, marketing Behavior and Technical Efficiency William Masters

Among Farming Households in Mozambique

David Leonardo Ortega Essays on Meat Demand in China H. Holly Wang

Appendix G, Page 10

Craig William Rismiller Cellulosic Biofuels Analysis: Case Study of Biofuel Comparison Wallace Tyner

Economics and Road Infrastructure Impacts

Delphine Simon Economic Analysis of the Potential of Cellulosic Biomass in France Wallace Tyner

From Agricultural Residues and Energy Crops

Joseph Suttles An Assessment of Agronomic Input Suppliers’ Perception of Allan Gray

Farmer Attitudes and the Influence on Financial Performance

Dulani Woods Organic and Conventional Agriculture: A Comparison of Conventional, Corinne Alexander

Manure, and Legume Systems on Soil Carbon, Soil Nitrogen, Yield, and

Economic Returns from a Long Term System in the Mid-Atlantic


Angel H. Aguiar An Analysis of U.S. Immigration and Policy Reforms Terrie Walmsley

Felix Baquedano Increasing Incomes of Cotton Farmers in Mali: Effects of Price Increases, John Sanders

Productivity Gains, and Alternative Crops

Bhawna Bista Corn-to-Ethanol Dry Mill Plants: Economic Evaluation of Wallace Tyner

Technology and Location Choice Paul Preckel

Jason P. Brown Spatial Dynamics of Capital Formation in U.S. Manufacturing Raymond Florax

Andres F. Garcia Demographic Influences on Economic Growth, Inequality and the William Masters

Political Economy of Agricultural Policy across Countries

Todd Henry Kuethe Urban Spatial Structure and the Value of Residential Housing Raymond Florax

Carlos David Mayen Solorzano Economics of Productivity and Farm Structure: A Comparison Joseph Balagtas

of Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States Corinne Alexander

Fulgence Joseph Mishili Grain Legumes Trade and Markets: Spatial and Temporal James Lowenberg-DeBoer

Analysis for Common Beans Trade in Tanzania and Its Neighbors

Appendix G, Page 11

Mesbah John Motamed Urbanization, Agriculture, and Economic Output: Raymond J.G.M. Florax

Essays in Economic Geography

Valerien Olivier Pede Spatial Dimensions of Economic Growth: Technological Raymond Florax

Leadership and Club Convergence

Nelson B. Villoria Three Essays on the Geography of International Trade Thomas Hertel

Yigezu Atnafe Yigezu The Economics of Integrated Pest Management in Stored Corn Corinne Alexander

Paul Preckel


Kendra Meicole Arrington An Evaluation of Consumer Segments for Farmers’ Markets Jennifer Dennis

in Indiana and Illinois

Christopher Barthol Liberalization of Ethanol Trade Between the U.S. and Brazil in the Presence of a Wallace Tyner

Binding Renewable Fuel Standard

Samuel V. Brown Rural Electric Cooperatives’ Adoption of Renewable Energy Technology Paul Preckel

Yunguang Chen Essays on Farm Yield Risks and Risk Management Decisions H. Holly Wang

Christopher R Chibwana Measuring the Impacts of Agricultural Input Subsidies on Gerald Shively

Fertilizer use, Land Allocation and Forest Pressure: Evidence from

Malawi’s 2009 Farm Input Subsidy Program

Matthew Erickson Economic Analysis of Harvesting Corn Cobs for Biofuel Production Wallace E. Tyner

Monique Fahie Cap-and-Trade Policy: The Influence on Investments in C02 Reducing Benjamin Gramig

Technologies in Indiana

Anna L. Flaig Family Business Dynamics: How Marriage and Children Impact Men Maria Marshall

and Women Entrepreneurs Differently

Appendix G, Page 12

Chen Liu US Dollar Exchange Rate and crude Oil Price: A Common Driver Explanation Wallace Tyner

Parwin Hamidi Livestock Management and Marketing in Afghanistan Kevin McNamara

H. Holly Wang

Kate Marie Mane Wage Outcomes of Albanian Immigrants in the United States Brigitte Waldorf

David C. Moll Evaluating Crop Insurance and Marketing Strategies for George Patrick

Indiana Corn and Soybean Producers Corinne Alexander

Julia Isabel Navarro Economic Analysis of double Cropping Systems in Central Craig Dobbins

Indiana: Winter Wheat, Corn, Sorghum, Sweet Sorghum and Soybeans Lori Snyder

Tamara M. Ogle Income Transfer Efficiencies of U.S. Farm Payment Programs Roman Keeney

Amber Rankin Sustainability Strategies in Agribusiness: Understanding Key Allan Gray

Drivers, Objectives, and Actions

Amber Ann Remble Two Essays on Long-Run Objectives of the Family Farm Maria Marshall

Stephanie Rosch CONFIDENTIAL Steven Wu

Long-Term Contracts For Commodity Biofuel Crops

Joyia T. Smith Shopping Behavior in Food Retail Markets: Consumer Types and Methods Susan Chen

Danielle Urick A Stochastic Economic Analysis of Nitrogen Application Rates to Nicole Olynk

Corn in Indiana: Decision-making in an Environment of Increased Volatility

Joshua Ryan Yoder Risk Versus Reward, A Financial Analysis of Contract Use Implications Steven Wu

to the Miscanthus Lignocellulosic Supply Chain

Appendix G, Page 13


Dileep Kotturappa Birur Global Impact of Biofuels on Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Wallace Tyner

A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis Thomas Hertel

Devendra Canchi Financial Transmission Rights: Valuation and Auction Structure Paul Preckel

Benoit Delbecq Economic Impacts of Urban Growth and Urban Sprawl on Agriculture: Raymond Florax

A Spatial analysis of Land Use Change at the Urban-rural Fringe

Yuanlong Ge Three Essays on Price Analysis of Selected Agricultural Commodities H. Holly Wang

Claes Gustav Helmers The Importance of Ownership Form and Spatial Location in the Raymond Florax

Lodging Industry: An Empirical Analysis of the Hotel Sector in Texas John Connor

Joseph Todd Hubbs Exploring Macroeconomic Impacts on Agricultural Spot Timothy Baker

Markets with Time Series Methods

Amanda Leister Potential Implications of the World Trade Organization Special Thomas Hertel

Safeguard Mechanism in Agriculture

Maud Roucan-Kane How Do Food and Agribusiness Companies Select Their Allan Gray

Product Innovation Projects?

David Ubilava Nonlinear Multivariate Modeling and Forecasting of Commodity Prices Matthew Holt

Monika Verma Assessing the Poverty Impact When Commodity Prices are Volatile Thomas Hertel

2011—Master of Science

Hayatullah Ahmadzai On-Farm Grain Storage Losses: Potential Gains From Improved Roman Keeney

Storage Facility and Management Practices in Afghanistan

Jessa M. Becker An Empirical Analysis of Climate Change Perceptions and Benjamin Gramig

Conservation Tillage Practices of Indiana Farmers

Appendix G, Page 14

Samuel F. Clark Imperfect Decisions or Untapped Potential: Indicators of U.S. Roman Keeney

Household Investment Efficiency

Elizabeth Ann Dobis A Sociodemographic Analysis of Health Care Utilization in the United States Raymond Florax

Jenna Nichole Flesher Commodity Price Stabilization Through the Use of Export Taxes Philip Abbott

in Argentina: A Political Economy Analysis

Rejeana Marie Gvillo Retail Supply and the Purchase of Midwestern Fresh fish on Ice Kwamena Quagrainie

Ghulam Hazrat Halimi Can Afghanistan Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Wheat: Philip Abbott

Limitations Due to Market Integration

Peter Mitchell Location Behavior of USDA Inspected Meat and Poultry Raymond Florax

Slaughter Plants in the United States: A Spatial Probit Approach

Andrew R. Sowell The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Grafted Naranjilla in Ecuador Gerald Shively

David Alan Widmar Biological and Economic Implications of Changing Sow Litter Size: Nicole Olynk

Informing On-Farm management and Decision Making


Metin Cakir Essays on Industrial Organization of U.S. Dairy Markets Joseph Balagtas

Csilla Lakatos Beyond Trade in Goods: The Role of Investment and Knowledge Terrie Walmsley

Capital in Applied Trade Policy

Miriam Otoo Key Factors Necessary for the Development of a Value-Added Joan Fulton

Cowpea Subsector in West Africa: The Case of Cowpea Flour

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