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2007 Seminars
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Dr. Dayton Lambert, Assistant
Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, presented:
Is Growth in the Health Sector Correlated With Migrating Retirees?
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Mr. Spencer Swayze, Manager
of Business Development, Ceres
presented, The Potential of Dedicated Energy
Crops
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"Transforming Agriculture
in Liberia: The Potential Role of Cocoa and Linkages to Knowledge-Generating
Institutions" was a roundtable conference held
simultaneously at UT and the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia via video
conference on June 22, 2007.
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Dr. Jim Gockowski, agricultural
economist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
and UT alumni presented:
Achieving Agricultural Transformation in Liberia
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Dr. Michael Wilcox,
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, The University
of Tennessee presented:
Building Market Linkages in the Post-Conflict Liberian
Cocoa Sector
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Justin Gardner, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois, and Candidate
for Assistant Professor of Farm Management and Production Economics in the
Department of Agricultural Economics, presented:
Genetically Modified Crops and Labor Savings in US Crop Production |
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Margarita Velandia,
Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University, and Candidate for Assistant Professor
of Farm Management and Production Economics in the Department of Agricultural
Economics presented:
Spatial Autocorrelation and its Role in Management Zones
Delineation:
Economics of Cotton Precision Agriculture |
2006 Seminars
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Dr. Stephen Slinsky, Senior Economist, National Cotton
Council, Memphis, Tennessee presented:
Challenges and Opportunities Facing
the U.S. Cotton Industry
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Dr.
Seong-Hoon Cho, Assistant Professor, Department of
Agricultural Economics, The University of Tennessee presented:
Measuring the Contribution of Water
and Green Space amenities to Housing Values: An Application
and comparison of Spatially-Weighted Hedonic Models
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Dr. Roland Roberts,
Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, The University
of Tennessee, presented:
A Decade of Research on the Economics
of Variable-Rate Input Application
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Dr.
Paul Jakus, Professor, Department of Economics, Utah State
University presented:
Welfare Measurement with Imperfect
Information:
An Exposition and Empirical Application to Fish Consumption Advisories
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Dr.
Charles R. Hall, Professor and Extension Economist,
Agricultural Economics Department, The University of Tennessee and
Dr. John Brooker, Professor, Agricultural Economics
Department, The University of Tennessee, presented:
The U. S. Green Industry: Trade Flows,
Marketing Practices and Economic Impacts
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2005 Seminars
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Dr.
Delton Gerloff, Professor, Agricultural Economics Department,
The University of Tennessee presented:
The Viability of a Crop Insurance Investment
Account: The Case for Obion County, Tennessee
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Dr.
Mark Downing, Agricultural Economist with the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Agricultural
Economics, The University of Tennessee and Technical & Research
Advisor, Biomass Feedstock Projects, U.S. Dept. of Energy, presented:
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Adoption of
Biodiesel in Diesel Fuel Applications for the State of Maine
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Dr.
Burton English, Professor, Department of Agricultural
Economics, The University of Tennessee presented:
Switchgrass
and Crop Residues to Energy: A Possibility for the Future
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2004 Seminars
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Dr. George Smith, Professor,
Agricultural Economics Department, University of Tennessee presented:
Tennessee's Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operation (CAFO) Regulations
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Professor Andrew Schmitz, Ben Hill Griffin
Jr. Eminent Scholar and a Professor of Food and Resource Economics,
University of Florida, Gainesville; Research Professor, University
of California, Berkeley; and Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon presented:
Cotton, Brazil and the WTO A
look at the Impact of the Recent Trade Disputes Panel Ruling on
US Cotton Producers
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Dr. Adam Chen, Post-doctoral
Research Associate, Agricultural Economics Department, University
of Tennessee presented:
County-Level Agricultural Production
Efficiency in China: A Spatial Analysis
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Mr. Kevin Athearn, Ph.D. Candidate, Agricultural
and Resource Economics, University of Florida presented:
Anticipating the Effects of Eco-Labeling
on the Environment
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Dr. Seong-Hoon Cho, Post-Doctoral
Associate, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia
presented:
Measuring Interactions among Urbanization,
Land Use Regulations, and Public Finance
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Dr.
Michele Villinski, Assistant Professor, DePauw University,
presented:
The Ebb and Flow of Water Markets:
Uncertainty and the Value of Water Option Contracts in the Texas
Rio Grande
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Mr. Aashish Mehta, Ph.D. Candidate, Department
of Ag & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
and Post-doctoral Research Associate Candidate, Department
of Agricultural Economics, The University of Tennessee presented:
Returns to Schooling, Institutions
and Heterogeneous Diploma Effects: An Expanded Mincerian Framework
Applied to Mexico
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Mr. Chris Dager,
Transportation Economist, River Operations, Tennessee Valley Authority
presented:
Agricultural Transportation and Modal
Efficiencies
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Dr. Jim Hite, Alumni
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Applied Economics,
Clemson University, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied
Economics, Virginia Tech presented:
The Virginia Rural Prosperity Commission:
Implications for Rural Development Policy, Research, and Extension
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Dr. Daryll
Ray, Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural
Policy Professor and Agricultural Policy Analysis Center Director,
Agricultural Economics Department, The University of Tennessee presented:
Rethinking U.S. Agricultural Policy:
Changing Course to Secure Farmer Livelihoods Worldwide
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Devinder
Sharma, Indian journalist, writer, thinker, and researcher.
Author of: GATT and India: Politics of Agriculture; GATT to WTO
Seeds of Despair; In the Famine Trap; and Keeping the Other Half
Hungry presented:
Intellectual Property Rights and Biopiracy:
India's Experience
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Dr.
Marie Walsh, Research Staff Economist, U.S. Department
of Energy, Biomass Feedstock Development Program, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural
Economics, The University of Tennessee presented:
Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Integrated
Systems Analysis
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