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April 2025, Issue 7

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President-Elect Seeks Volunteers for AAEA Committees

Committees drive the direction and impact of the AAEA by influencing its activities and awards. Please consider shaping the AAEA’s future by volunteering for one of the committees listed below. Committee service also offers an excellent opportunity for developing contacts, refining leadership skills, and increasing professional networking.

Any AAEA member interested and willing to serve on a committee should contact Jeanne Rhodes at jrhodes@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190 by May 2, 2025.
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2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting
Hotel Room Block - OPEN

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
1550 Court Place,
Denver, Colorado, USA, 80202
(303) 893-3333

AAEA Group Rate: $229.00
Reservations must be received on
or before Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
 

Please book using the AAEA Group rate here:
https://book.passkey.com/e/50926533

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting Funding Opportunities

  • Trust Funded Travel Grants
    These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, July 27 - 29, 2025. The amount of the travel grant awarded will depend on the number of applications received. There are Travel Grants for both International and Domestic travel and the deadline to apply for either is May 23, 2025.
  • Section Sponsored Travel Grants
    The Section Sponsored Travel Grant of $500 will help cover travel expenses for an AAEA Member to attend the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, CO July 27-29, 2025. All Section Sponsored Travel Grant recipients must register and attend the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in-person. Receipts are required. Limit one Section Sponsored Travel Grant per person. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, April 30, 2025. All applicants will be notified by Friday, May 9, 2025.
  • Special Rate Registration
    The AAEA Annual Meeting is a perennial cornerstone component of the organization. We look forward to another successful meeting July 27-29, 2025 in Denver, CO at the AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting. The typical slate of pre- and post-conference workshops, keynote addresses, concurrent sessions, reunions and much more are scheduled, and will again offer attendees numerous learning and networking opportunities. 

    Core to ongoing successful Annual Meetings is robust attendance and participation of our Members. Meanwhile, some AAEA Members have experienced significant challenges associated with lost employment in calendar year 2025. The AAEA wants to acknowledge this and invites and encourages Members who have lost employment in 2025 to log-in to the AAEA Member Account on the AAEA website and see what support is available to partially assist in their attending this year’s Annual Meeting.
     
  • Childcare & Accessibility Fund
    AAEA is not providing onsite childcare in Denver; however, you may apply for childcare/accessibility funds by filling out this form.  

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting Workshops Preview

Registering ahead of time for Pre- and Post-conference Workshops are required before the annual meeting. You may register for a Pre- and Post-conference Workshop while registering for the annual meeting or by calling the AAEA Business Office at (414) 918-3190.
https://www.aaea.org/meetings/2025-aaea-annual-meeting/events/ticketed-events/pre--and-post-conference-workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops     
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Post-Conference Workshops    
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting Ticketed Luncheons

Monday, July 28, 2025                                                                              11:30 am – 1:00 pm 
Additional details on speaker coming soon

  • COSBAE, CWAE and Africa Sections Speaker Series and Luncheon
  • Extension Section Speaker Series and Luncheon

2025 AAEA FAMPS Poster Competition

FAMPS proposes to host a poster session at the 2025 Annual Meeting, similar to the one hosted at 2024 meeting.  The objective of the poster session is to provide a forum for researchers with more limited professional networks, like graduate students and beginning faculty, to be recognized for innovative and high-quality research in poster sessions.  These researchers might be less likely to participate in track sessions, and thus attend the annual meeting, than researchers with stronger professionally networks.  This recognition could also be helpful to some researchers at the beginning stages of their career.
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The 2025 Extension Competition for Graduate Students

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting
Denver, CO July 27-29

The AAEA Extension Competition for Graduate Students provides an opportunity to develop and/or get feedback on programs that communicate research and practical information to Extension (usually non-economist) audiences. Entries can be based upon graduate student research for a thesis, dissertation or other academic work. The competition is sponsored by the Extension and Graduate Student Sections.
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AAEA IBES Power Analysis Virtual Workshop

Date: May 5-May 7, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST each day
This virtual workshop is offering a hands-on workshop to bridge the power analysis knowledge gap for members of our profession. Participants will learn strategies for advanced power analysis for their economic experiments. Presentations and software code will be distributed in a shared drive following the workshop. Each session will feature 45-60 minutes of content followed by 30 minutes of Q&A with audience participants. For more information about registration click here.

GSS & C-FARE 2025 Policy Communications Competition

In today’s market, graduate students may seek careers where they are tasked with evaluating policy issues and effectively communicating their results to policymakers and other stakeholders. Therefore, the Graduate Student Section (GSS) and Council on Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics (C-FARE) partner for the 5th Annual Policy Communications Competition. This competition provides graduate students with an opportunity to gain experience in both written and verbal policy communication. Applications must be submitted electronically no later than midnight CT on June 20, 2025.
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Call for Volunteers: Senior Discussant for Selected Presentations - Paper Sessions

Members wishing to get involved may volunteer for an essential role as a senior-level discussant for Selected Paper Sessions at our 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, July 27-29, 2025.  A discussant will be assigned to a Selected Presentation Paper Session whose topic area correlates with the discussant’s expertise.  The discussant would be tasked with reviewing the papers within their session, provide constructive feedback and stimulate discussion.  The goal is to make these sessions more impactful and meaningful.

Discussants will receive their session assignment and session details in mid to late June. Please click here to volunteer! If you have any questions, please contact the AAEA Business Office at info@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190.
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Choices Magazine: Article Highlight

From Contamination to Climate Change: Emerging Risks at the Nexus of Food Safety and Nutrition, and their Implications for Public Health
Kathryn A. Boys
Understanding the interconnections between food safety and nutrition will be key to navigating public health challenges caused by emerging food system risks. This discussion introduces several contemporary issues at this intersection including individual food safety risk and diet-related disease, food fraud, and linkages between climate change, food safety, and nutrition.

Interested in publishing in Choices? Submit your Individual, Theme, or Data Visualizations here.

AAEA at 2026 ASSA Annual Meeting

Call for submissions: AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2026 ASSA Annual Meeting

President-Elect Brian Roe is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2026 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, January 3-5, 2026.

The objective of AAEA sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting is to share new knowledge of interest to economists. The AAEA encourages sessions that will draw widely from ASSA attendees, including sessions jointly sponsored with other ASSA member associations.

All speakers and discussants must be members of AAEA, although the proposal may request a membership waiver under special circumstances. Participants must register for the ASSA meeting.

Please send proposals by May 21, 2025, in Word or PDF format to Mary Annen at mannen@aaea.org. Read more>>

Government Relations & Washington Update

March 2025

Congress Passes Continuing Resolution for FY 2025
With a March 14th deadline looming, Congress was able to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government through the remainder of fiscal year 2025. The resolution included mainly “level” funding for programs at their fiscal year 2024 amounts. That was true for USDA’s agricultural research accounts within NIFA, ARS, ERS and NASS. The one exception was the removal of funding in the ARS Buildings and Facilities line for fiscal year 2025. The extension of funding through September 30th will allow Congress to address other issues including budget reconciliation without the threat of a government shutdown. With fiscal year 2025 appropriations complete, work will begin on fiscal year 2026. The Trump Administration is expected to release its proposals for fiscal year 2026 in the coming weeks. AAEA is actively working with coalition partners to build support for critical USDA research, education and economics programs for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Other News

Call for Papers
Risk and Risk Management in the Agricultural Economy

November 21, 2025 — Cambridge, MA
To promote research on the risks that are borne by individuals and firms in the agricultural sector, and on the tools that are available to manage these risks, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with the support of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture, will convene a research conference in Cambridge, MA on Friday, November 21, 2025. The conference will be organized by Barry Goodwin (North Carolina State University) and Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois and NBER). 
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International Workshop on “Survey Design & Experimental Methods in Applied and Agricultural Economics”

We would like to bring the International Workshop on “Survey Design & Experimental Methods in Applied and Agricultural Economics” to your attention.

The workshop will cover theoretical and practical knowledge regarding surveys and experimental methods. In addition, delegates will be familiarized with state-of-the-art software, and will design their own practice experiment through hands-on training.
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