USDA-ERS to be on "America by the Numbers" Friday, May 24

Small Town America, Live on the "America by the Numbers" Segment of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”

For the first time, U.S. rural counties as a whole are losing population. Find out more on Friday, May 24, 2013, at approximately 9:15 a.m. EDT as John Cromartie, geographer in the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, discusses statistics about changes in rural and small town America. Each Friday, C-SPAN’s “America by the Numbers” segment features information from the federal statistical system. The program highlights the trends and allows the public to call in or email their views. More information on previous C-SPAN programs is available at http://www.c-span.org/Series/Washington-Journal/

Coffee with your Colleagues: An Overview of Rates of Return to Agricultural Research May 20

Coffee with your Colleagues: An Overview of Rates of Return to Agricultural Research

An informational seminar sponsored by C-FARE

Time: 9 AM to 10 AM ET 

Date: May 20, 2013 

Location: 355 E Street SW, Washington DC, 20024 

Auditorium on the first floor of Patriots Plaza III 

Please RSVP by May 16. 

 

Coffee and muffins provided

Overview:

In a state of increasingly constrained federal budgets, it is even more important to identify public investments in agriculture that support productivity and growth and pay high dividends to taxpayers. According to USDA ERS, "Growth in agriculture is highly dependent on R&D spending, which is the primary driver of productivity improvement over the long term."ⁱ Please join your colleagues who are part of the US Agricultural R&D system from the federal government, academic community and private sectors for a chance to mingle and learn more about recent reports addressing evidence for returns to agricultural research and the long-term trends in agricultural R&D funding, including what this implies for future productivity growth in U.S. agriculture.
Program:

Moderator 
Damona Doye, C-FARE Chair, and Sarkeys Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor and Extension Economist, Oklahoma State University

Evidence on Returns to Agricultural Research Keith Fuglie, Chief of the Resource, Environmental, and Science Policy Branch in the Resource and Rural Economics Division, USDA ERS

Implications of R&D funding for Long-Term Agricultural Productivity Growth Paul Heisey, Economist, USDA ERS

This seminar is sponsored by C-FARE. C-FARE is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the national presence of the agricultural economics profession. C-FARE promotes the work of applied economists and serves as a catalyst for incorporating economic thinking into the analysis of food, agricultural and resource decisions. We serve as a conduit between the academic research community and Washington, DC policymakers and agency personnel, matching expertise to public needs.

New Issue of Choices Now Posted!

The new issue of Choices features two collections of theme articles: 

Emerging Issues in Global Animal Product Trade guest edited by Keithly Jones, Amy Hagerman, and Andrew Muhammad

Agricultural Implications of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 guest edited by Walter J. Armbruster. 

Both issues are available free online on the Choices website.

C-FARE Summer 2013 Intern Briefings

C-FARE would like to invite students with an interest in economics who are interning in Washington, DC this summer to participate in their Summer 2013 Intern Briefings which will focus on careers with Capitol Hill, agencies and non-governmental organizations.

These briefings are designed to allow students to hear from professionals who have received a degree in agricultural, natural resources, or applied economics about their career paths and receive insight on potential classes to take, and other details regarding the necessary background to succeed in Washington, DC.

The first event will take place on June 17 from 8:00 – 10:00 am on Capitol Hill. Students can register to receive general information and notices on these briefings by visiting here http://bit.ly/Zs2YuP

For more information about C-FARE, please visit www.cfare.org.

Member Profile: Cheryl J. Wachenheim

Cheryl J. Wachenheim
Professor
North Dakota State University

AAEA Activities:

• Selected Presentations Committee

Vote in the 2013 AAEA Board and AAEA Section Elections!

The 2013 AAEA Board and AAEA Section elections are currently open. All current members are eligible to vote in the election for the AAEA Board. Only current members of each Section are eligible to vote in Section elections.

Please login to the My Account section to access the ballot.

2013 AAEA Executive Board Election Candidates are:

President-Elect

Susan Capalbo, Oregon State University

Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University

Director

Michael Boland, University of Minnesota

Hayley Chouinard, Washington State University
Michael Gunderson, Purdue University

Andrew Muhammad, USDA Economic Research Service

The AAEA Section elections are taking place concurrently with the Executive Board election. You will be able to complete the Executive Board and Section elections all in one place. Section members will be directed to the Section ballots for which they are eligible to vote upon submitting the Executive Board ballot. 

The AAEA elections will end on May 15, 2013 at 11:59 pm CDT.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the American Journal of Entrepreneurship

Guest Editor Dr. Kathleen Liang, University of Vermont is now accepting submissions for a special issue of the American Journal of Entrepreneurship (AJE) focused on Rural Entrepreneurship. Below is the full call:

Call for Papers: Special Issue-Rural Entrepreneurship Issue
American Journal of Entrepreneurship
Deadline to submit: July 1, 2013 

Articles in AJE are intended for a diverse audience of individuals including, but not limited to, academic scholars and educators, practitioners, and policy officials. AJE prefers research based upon quantitative evidence, or upon qualitative evidence, broadly defined. We seek papers that are grounded in the extant literature, include appropriate analysis, and make a new contribution to the received literature in the field of entrepreneurship. Please note that we will also accept “conceptual” papers. Conceptual manuscripts must clearly make a new, significant contribution to the existing literature and show promise of being verifiable by future research.

Aim and Scope of the Rural Entrepreneurship Volume
This special rural entrepreneurship volume will be a multidisciplinary publication from a variety of scholarly perspectives. This volume will be open to papers from any scholarly tradition with high quality and focus on rural entrepreneurship including, but not limited to, the following topics:

The concepts and/or comparative analysis of rural entrepreneurship and rural entrepreneurs

• Innovation and technology for rural enterprises

• Identifying and assessing venture opportunities for rural development

• Financing rural business ventures

• Public policy toward rural new ventures

• Challenges and barriers for starting and managing entrepreneurial ventures in rural communities 

• Developing sustainable finances for rural entrepreneurs and ventures

• Innovative marketing for rural enterprises

• Human resources management in rural ventures

• International/global rural entrepreneurship

Manuscripts should be double-spaced and no more than 25 pages in length, including figures, models, and tables. For questions regarding grammar or style, authors should refer to the current edition of the APA Publication Manual. Author names should not appear anywhere in the manuscript except on the title page. All papers and proposals must be submitted electronically in MS Word format or PDF format. Papers should be double-spaced including page number. They must include a separate title page with the title of the paper, name(s), affiliation(s), and full contact information for all authors. The body of the paper should contain a second cover page without any author identification. A 150-word abstract with no author identification should be placed on the third page. Submitted papers shall not have been published or presented previously.

Authors must use electronic mail to submit their manuscripts. All submissions should be sent to: Dr. Kathleen Liang, guest editor of the special edition (cliang@uvm.edu) by July 1, 2013. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please indicate in the email subject line: paper for AJE rural entrepreneurship by (last_name).