The AAEA Annual Awards and Fellows Ceremony recognizes professional excellence in agricultural and applied economics. Students, early career professionals, and experienced members are selected on the basis of their achievements in research, teaching and extension activities. It also recognizes AAEA Fellows, AAEA's most prestigious honor.
 Will Martin International Food Policy Research Institute |
 Alfred Parks Prairie View A&M University |
 Timothy Richards Arizona State University |
 Jutta Roosen Technical University of Munich |
 Ralph Christy Cornell University |
| Outstanding Master's Thesis Award |
Molly Delcurto, Montana State University Benjamin Norton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Betty Thomas, Mississippi State University Honorable Mention: Gabriel Blair Fontinelee |
| Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award |
Christina Korting, University of Delaware Honorable Mentions: Susanna Berkouwer, Yang Yu |
| Distinguished Teaching Awards: Less than 10 years 10 or more years', Undergraduate 10 or more years', Graduate |
Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia Jason Bergtold, Kansas State University Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida |
| Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards: Less than 10 years' experience 10 or more years' experience Group |
Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Farmdoc Daily Live Coronavirus and Agriculture (Scott Irwin, Jim Baltz, Ryan Batts, Lee Bynum, Jonathan Coppess, Brenna Ellison, Bryan Endres, Todd Gleason, Keith Good, Todd Hubbs, Hongxia Jiao, Dale Lattz, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Bruce Sherrick, Cathy Strick, and Brad Zwilling) |
| Bruce Gardner Award |
Vida Abadam, USDA (Shawn Arita, Mary Ann Ball, Vince Breneman, Joseph Cooper, Gustavo Ferreira, Georgi Gabrielyan, Essence Hales, Joy Harwood, Deirdre Holder, Ashley Hungerford, Robert Johansson, Kent Lanclos, Callie McAdams, Sharon Raszap, Pete Riley, Phil Sronce, Thomas Gajnak, Rena Yuan, Roger Cryan, and Charles Stephens also of USDA, Economic Research) Pat Westhoff, University of Missouri (Julian C.R. Binfield, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Deepayan Debnath, Scott Gerlt, Hoa T.K. Hoang, Lauren Jackson, Youngjune Kim, John Kruse, Abigail Meffert, Seth Meyer, Marc Rosenbohm, Byung Min Soon, Wyatt Thompson, Patrick Westhoff, Jarrett Whistance, Peter Zimmel) |
| Quality of Research Discovery Award |
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Kristen McCormack and James H. Stock from Harvard) Honorable Mention: Sherzod Akhundjanov (Muyang Ge and Eric C. Edwards) |
| Quality of communication Award | Johan Swinnen (John McDermott) |
| AAEA Mentoring Award | Lisa House, University of Florida |
| Publication of Enduring Quality Award | Nigel Key, USDA (Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry) |
| Outstanding AJAE Article | Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University for "The Role of Nonfarm Influences in Ricardian Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on US Agriculture" |
| Outstanding AJAE Reviewers |
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| Outstanding AEPP Article | Joseph Janzen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nathan Hendricks, Kansas State University for "Are Farmers Made Whole by Trade Aid” |
| Outstanding Choices Article | Jason Grant, Virginia Tech; Shawn Arita, USDA-OCE; Charlotte Emlinger, Virginia Tech; Sharon Sydow, USDA-OCE; Mary A. Marchant, Virginia Tech for "The 2018-2019 Trade Conflict: A One-Year Assessment and Impacts on U.S. Agricultural Exports" |
| Presidential Recognition Award | Kathleen Liang, North Carolina A&T |
| Anthony Grano Scholarship | Chellie Hogan, Oklahoma State University Deven Brand, Kansas Farm Management Association |
| Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship | P. Venkatesh, Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
| McCorkle Scholarship | Karin Wu, University of Wisconsin |
| AAEA Trust Travel Grants | 21 Early Career Professionals and Graduate Students |
| 2021 Academic Bowl Winners | Louisiana State University (Team 1) Colt Hardee Michael Younis Erin Matherne |