Putting
Risk Management Research into Practice |
Putting Risk
Management Research into Practice"
Dr. Robert King
University of Minnesota
Professor
Department Head-Applied Economics
Appointed Head of the Department in July 2004.
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1979.
Management information systems, managerial economics, and agribusiness
management
Current research includes economics of information systems, organizational
design, supermarket operations, and cooperative management.
Dr. King's recent publications have appeared in American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Review of Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness: An International
Journal, Agricultural Systems, and Journal of Cooperatives.
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The
Challenges of Scholarship and Assessment in Outreach |
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"Achieving Scholarship in Agricultural Economics Extension with
Declining Budgets"
Dr. Damona Doye
Oklahoma State University
Extension Economist and Regents Professor
Agricultural Economics Department
Dr. Doye is a state Extension specialist; she develops educational materials
and programs in farm management. She provides support as needed to area
specialists and Extension Educators - Agriculture. Because farm management
encompasses a wide variety of production, financial and decision-making
practices, educational efforts have responded to needs in a broad array
of topics. Her educational methods include publications, “hands on” computer
workshops, displays at industry meetings, and presentations at regional
and state meetings as well as local meetings. Audiences for workshops and
materials developed include producers, agricultural lenders and other agricultural
industry personnel, and Extension staff, both in-state and out-of-state.
Dr. Doye has authored or co-author of more than 400 publications on farm
financial management, record-keeping, leasing, enterprise analysis, cost
of production, integrated resource management and management information
systems. |
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Epidemic Disease and Food Safety Risk in
EU Livestock Farming |
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Dr. Ruud Huirne
Department of Economics and Management
Professor
Wageningen Agricultural University
Netherlands
Dr. Ruud Huirne has been a professor of agricultural company management
at Wageningen University since January, 1999.
The main focuses of his research and teaching are enterprise and supply
chain management, decisive help, risk analysis and risk management. In
1986 he graduated with the main subjects economy and mathematics. In 1990
he completed his doctorate with the subject "Computer-controlled management
help to pig-breeding companies" at Wageningen University.
After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Hurine was a guest scientist at Michigan
State University and at the University of England Anew in Armidale, Australia.
Presently he is a leader of the "Farm Management Group" and
the IRMA - Institute.
Ruud Huirne is a member of the editorial staff committee of scientific
newspapers. Such newspapers include: "European Review of Agricultural
Economics" and "Computers and Electronics in Agriculture". |
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