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Seminars

Aug. 28, 2015| Emrah Er will present a Graduate Professional Seminar titled, "Intro to LaTeX: The Technical Writing Software" on Friday, August 28 at 9:00 a.m. in Waters Hall Room 336

"LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents." [1] It is an alternative to Microsoft Word. LaTeX does not depend on a specific text editor, allowing you to choose software that suits your own needs to write LaTeX documents. LaTeX also helps you organize large documents like theses easily and makes collaboration and version controlling more efficient. This "Crash Course" will be an easy and simple introduction to LaTeX. It will cover what LaTeX is, the basic structure of a LaTeX document, and the commands to implement some of the most common tasks you may already do in Word (formatting text, creating lists, creating section headings, etc.). The commands to add tables to a LaTeX document will also be discussed briefly. Many more advanced features are available (managing bibliographies, version controlling, etc.), which may be covered in later workshops. To get the most out of this workshop, it is suggested that you install the required software (which is free) on a notebook computer by following the attached Installation Instructions, and then bring your notebook to the workshop for a hands on experience.


May 1, 2015 | Dr. David L. Ortega, will be giving a Seminar on Friday, May 1, 2015 in Waters Hall, Room 342 from 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. His title is "Sustainable Intensification and Farmer Preferences for Crop System Attributes: Evidence from Malawi's Central and Southern Regions"


Apr. 23, 2015 | Dr. Mitch Cook, PhD, will be giving a  Seminar on Thursday, April 23, 2015 in Throckmorton Hall, Room 202 at 3:30 p.m. His title is "Crop Production in the United Kingdom (and EU): Past, Present and Future."

This seminar will highlight the utility of agricultural land resource within the UK and its significance to the economy. Cropping has changed dramatically in the last fifty years within the United Kingdom and the EU. This is both in terms of crops grown and production (both by increased yields and/or increased area of cultivation), which is driven primarily by policy changes, both from the EU and globally. The seminar will highlight these changes, and the impact on crop production within the United Kingdom.

Apr. 15, 2015 | Terry Griffin, PhD, will be giving a Department Seminar on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 in Waters Hall, Room 329 at 4:00 p.m.

“Meta-analysis refers to the statistical analysis of a large collection of results from individual studies for the purpose of integrating the findings. It connotes a rigorous alternative to the causal, narrative discussions of research studies which typify our attempt to make sense of the rapidly expanding research literature.”

Click here to view Griffin's Introduction to Meta document and his poster.


Apr. 1, 2015 | Emrah Er, will be giving a Department Seminar on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 in Waters Hall Annex, Room 104B at 4:00 p.m. His seminar title is “Crash Course on LaTex.”

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents." [1] It is an alternative to Microsoft Word. LaTeX does not depend on a specific text editor, allowing you to choose software that suits your own needs to write LaTeX documents. LaTeX also helps you organize large documents like theses easily and makes collaboration and version controlling more efficient. This "Crash Course" will be an easy and simple introduction to LaTeX. It will cover what LaTeX is, the basic structure of a LaTeX document, and the commands to implement some of the most common tasks you may already do in Word (formatting text, creating lists, creating section headings, etc.). The commands to add tables to a LaTeX document will also be discussed briefly. Many more advanced features are available (managing bibliographies, version controlling, etc.), which may be covered in later workshops. To get the most out of this workshop, it is suggested that you install the required software (which is free) on a notebook computer by following the attached Installation Instructions, and then bring your notebook to the workshop for a hands on experience.


Seminar documents for Julian Alston, University of California-Davis, presented Aug. 30, 2013.

Click here to view: The Effects of Farm Commodity and Retail Food Policies on Obesity and Economic Welfare in the United States. Abigail M. Okrent and Julian M. Alston.

Click here to view: How Have Agricultural Policies Influenced Caloric Consumption in the United States? Bradley J. Rickard, Abigail M. Okrent and Julian M. Alston.

Click here to view: Could a Calorie Tax or Cuts in Farm Subsidies Reduce Obesity? Julian M. Alston, Abigail M. Okrent, and Bradley J. Rickard.

Click here to view: The External Health-Care Cost of Obesity in the United States. Joanna Parks, Julian M. Alston, and Abigail M. Okrent.

Click here to view: Effects of U.S. Public Agricultural R&D on U.S. Obesity and Its Social Costs. Julian M. Alston, Abigail M. Okrent, and Joanna Parks.

View Alstons’ UC-Davis Faculty Profile Page http://Agecon.Ucdavis.Edu/People/Faculty/Julian-Alston/.


View Bob Reagan's seminar documents, The Sentence (held April 26, 2013) and The Paragraph (held October 5, 2012)


Mykel Taylor, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Extension Economist at Kansas State University presented a seminar "The Impacts of Policy and Macroeconomic Conditions on Horse Markets." Her research and extension programs are focused in the areas of crop marketing and farm management.

Barrett E. Kirwan, Assistant Professor in the Agricultural and Consumer Economics Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign presented a seminar titled "Charity Hazard in Crop Insurance."

Nathan Hendricks, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University presented "The Dynamics of Crop Acreage Response to Price: Problems of Aggregation and Pooling". His research interests include supply analysis and agricultural and environmental policy. He currently reaches undergraduate classes on global and environmental issues in agriculture.

Kondapi Srinivas, professor and principal scientist of Agricultural Economics at India's National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, presented "Microfinance in India." Srinivas was a visiting scholar in K-State's Department of Agricultural Economics during April 2011.

Steven Wu, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, presented "Contract Theory and Implications for Advanced Biofuels Contracting." Archived Presentation

Mariah Ehmke, University of Wyoming, presented "Mother-Child Economic Behavior, Family Dynamics, and Tendency Toward Obesity."

Jeff LaFrance Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the School of Economic Sciences, at Washington State University presented "Making Sense of Agricultural Production, Risk Management, and Arbitrage Decisions."

Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presented "Economic Effects of Purity Standards in Food Labeling Laws."

Susan Capalbo, Department Head & Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University entitled "Leadership and Other Challenges Facing Agricultural & Resource Economics Departments."

Amalie (Emie) Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Getting Away with Robbery? Patenting Behavior with the Threat of Infringement."

Greg Perry, Oregon State University, "What is the Future of the Agricultural Economics Profession?" See the archived presentation here

Chad Hart, Center for Agricultural & Rural Development, Iowa State University, "Bottlenecks and Oil Price Spikes: Impact on U.S. Ethanol and Agriculture"

Hongli Feng, Iowa State University, “The Allocation of Nutrient Load Reduction across a Watershed: Assessing Delivery Coefficients as an Implementation Tool.”

Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University, “Do Your Neighbors Know You Better than Themselves? A Prediction-Based Non-Market Valuation Method.”

Francoise Goulard, ESA-Purpan, France, “A Bio-Economic Model Evaluating Policy Cross-Compliance at the Farm Level.”

Scott Irwin, University of Illinois, “The Performance of Agricultural Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans.”

Stephan Marette, INRA-INAPG, Paris & Card, Iowa State University, “Common Labels and Market Mechanisms.”

Laurian Unneverh, University of Illinois, “Food, Information, and Public Health: What Have We Learned After a Decade of New Policy.”

Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University, “Labor Market Implications of Rising Costs of Employer-Provided Health Insurance.”

Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University, “Application of Geographic Indicator Concept in the U.S.”

Chris Peterson, Michigan State University, “Entrepreneurs, Innovation & Agriculture: A New Research Agenda.”

David Darling, Joseph Aistrup, Michael Babcock, David Norman and Wayne Nafziger, Kansas State University, “The Essentials of Economic Development: What Every Economist Should Understand.”

Bailey Norwood, Oklahoma State University, “Show Me the Money! The Value of College Graduate Attributes as Expressed by Employers and Perceived by Students.”

Michael Boland, Kansas State University, “Benchmarking Our Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral Programs Against Other Agricultural Economics Departments: Data from the National Food and Agribusiness Management Education Databases.”

James R. Coffman, Kansas State University, “The Relevance of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century: Part III.”

Gary Brester, Montana State University, “Distributional Impacts of Country of Origin Labeling.”

Luther Tweeten, The Ohio State University, “The Relevance of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century: Part II.”

John Schnittker, Schnittker Associates, “Presidential Power and Farm Policy Reform.”

Neil E. Harl, Iowa State University, “The Relevance of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century: Part I.”