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Keynote Speaker
"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.
Luncheon Speaker
"Achieving Scholarship in Agricultural Economics Extension
with Declining Budgets"
Dr. Domona
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.
Second Day General Session Speaker
"Epidemic Disease and Food Safety Risk in EU Livestock
Farming"
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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