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January 2024 - Issue 1

AAEA Deadlines    

January 14, 2024
January 19, 2024

  • Selected Presentations: Papers and Posters
  • Organized Symposia

February 1, 2024

  • AEPP Editorship Applications

February 4, 2024

  • AAEA Mentoring Award 
  • Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis Award
  • Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards
  • Distinguished Teaching Awards
  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • Outstanding Master's Thesis Awards
  • Publication of Enduring Quality Award
  • Quality of Communication Award
  • Quality of Research Discovery Award

February 23, 2024

  • Call for Student Representatives AAEA/ERS

March 1, 2024

  • AETR Co-Editor Applications

December 31, 2023
June 30, 2024

  • AETR Special Issue on AI

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AAEA News

Announcing the 2024 Fellows

Recognition as an AAEA Fellow is AAEA's most prestigious honor. The main consideration for selecting Fellows is continuous contribution to the advancement of agricultural or applied economics as defined by the Vision Statement. Achievements may be in research, teaching, extension, administration, and/or other contributions to public or private sector decision-making.

The 2024 AAEA Fellows Class will receive their award at the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. In alphabetical order the class is as follows:

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Titus Awokuse
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Michigan State University
 


Oral Capps Jr.,
Texas A&M University

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Steven Deller
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University of Wisconsin
-Madison

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Rachael Goodhue
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University of California, Davis

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Tom Marsh
,
Washington State University

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Alfons Weersink
,
University of Guelph

The AAEA Business Office would like to be the first to formally congratulate our upcoming Fellows.

The 2024 AAEA Room Block is OPEN
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Please reserve your room using the following link:https://book.passkey.com/e/50476455

Cut-off Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024 or when sold out.

2024 AAEA Annual Meeting Open Calls

January 14, 2024
January 19, 2024

February 4, 2024

Call For Student Representatives
(AAEA/ERS Cooperative Agreement Committee)

The AAEA/ERS Cooperative Agreement Committee is seeking applications for student representatives to join of faculty, staff and government and industry stakeholders working to implement its primary goal of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the association and discipline. Among its other aims, the committee’s specific student-oriented objectives include (a) expanding the number of students from historically underrepresented groups pursuing advanced degrees and careers in agricultural and applied economics; and (b) ensuring that students have the support, resources, and skills to succeed academically and pursue careers in research, government or industry.
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Call for Applications for Editor for Applied Economics Teaching Resources

The AAEA Board is seeking applications for a co-editor of Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR). The co-editor will further the journal’s strategic goals, manage publications, enhance teaching and Extension education scholarship opportunities in the profession, promote innovations in teaching and Extension education methods, and expand the AETR Online Teaching Database.

Applications should be sent electronically in a single document to Allison Ware, at aware@aaea.org by Friday, March 1, 2024. Third-party nominations of potentially interested candidates who can then be solicited for their materials are also welcome.
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Call for Applications Editorship of the Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy

The AAEA Executive Board invites ap­plications for one editor for Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy (AEPP) to serve from 2024 through 2026.  This call for applications is for an editor to manage Submitted Articles which contain original research results addressing real-world problems with sound research approaches and/or have strong policy relevance within the subject matter of the journal.   The degree to which candidate’s expertise complements that of the continuing editors, will be considered in the selection process. The AAEA is particularly interested in candidates who will bring ideas and innovations for helping AEPP to further its mission.

Applica­tions should be sent electronically via PDF to Kristen McGuire, Executive Director, at kmcguire@aaea.org by February 1, 2024. Decisions will be made by the AAEA Board by March 2024. Third-party nominations of potentially interested candidates who can then be solicited for their materials are also welcome.
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Announcing a new AAEA Special Purpose Fund:
Boehlje Agribusiness Management Fellowship

The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide financial support for graduate students with an interest in agribusiness management to continue their education through the PhD in preparation for an academic career in these areas.

BACKGROUND: After graduating from Iowa State University in AgEcon, Mike Boehlje received a NDEA Fellowship to attend graduate school in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University where he received MS and PhD degrees. The NDEA Fellowship was critical to enabling him to pursue graduate work which then led to academic career faculty and administrative positions at Oklahoma State, Iowa State, University of Minnesota and Purdue. The focus of his academic work was managerial economics and farm/agribusiness finance and management. He was an active member of AAEA and recognized as an AAEA Fellow.

The goal of the Fellowship is to support the education of graduate students for faculty positions in Departments of Agricultural Economics in the critical area of agribusiness management.

A Fellowship of $3,000 would be offered annually. Applicants would be expected to provide their plan of study and a brief description of their research interests and/or project.
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Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Use in the Classroom and Academy

Applied Economics and Teaching Resources is calling for manuscripts about use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in undergraduate and graduate education in the classroom and across the academy. Submissions of case studies, teaching and extension scholarship and research, educational innovations and methods, extension education innovations and methods, and commentaries about use of artificial intelligence, including use of large language models (LLMs) and platforms, such as ChatGPT, Bing AI, Bard, amongst other, and data analytics in undergraduate and graduate education, extension education, and other learning venues in institutions of higher learning. This special issue is open to a wide array of topics related to artificial intelligence and data analytics across the agricultural and applied economics and agribusiness and management economics disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to innovative use of AI and data analytics in the classroom; innovative data analytic teaching modules and teaching case studies; teaching case studies about the impact of AI on agriculture, the agricultural industry and society; ethical and academic concerning the use of AI in the academy; assessments of AI for different learning outcomes and tasks; and use of AI and data analytics in extension education programming. The deadline for submissions has been extended to June 30, 2024.
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Government Relations & Washington Update

January 2024

Congressional Leaders Reach Tentative Budget Deal
Congress returns to Washington after the holidays with a very full agenda. Fiscal year 2024 appropriations still must be resolved. Congress avoided a government shutdown in late 2023 by passing a bifurcated continuing resolution extending funding for the agricultural appropriations bill and three others to January 19th and the remaining bills through February 2nd. There was increasing uncertainty about whether Congress would be able to complete appropriations legislation prior to those deadlines. There were ongoing disagreements about topline spending levels and Republicans were also pressing for more resources to improve border security. On January 7th, Speaker Johnson announced that Congressional leaders reached an agreement on overall spending levels, setting the funding cap for the 12 appropriations bills at $1.59 trillion. The deal includes a set of budget moves pushed by Democrats to would reduce the immediate impacts of cuts on domestic programs, with the exception of accelerating $10 billion in reductions to the Internal Revenue Service and canceling $6 billion in unspent pandemic funds. The announcement paves the way for the Appropriations Committees to proceed with finalizing individual appropriations bills.  However, the agreement is likely to draw opposition from some House Republicans and a partial government shutdown is still possible as the process moves forward. Speaker Johnson has indicated that will not support additional continuing resolutions.
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Other News

Call for Proposals
USDA-Economic Research Service RIDGE Program

USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) encourages new and innovative research through joint projects with both USDA, ERS staff and outside researchers. The USDA, ERS extramural research program promotes food and nutrition assistance research from a broad arena:

Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics Program (RIDGE)

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Call for Posters
Farm Financial Standards Council

The Farm Financial Standards Council invites all Students, Instructors, and Industry Professionals to prepare Posters for presentation during the Council’s 2024 Annual Conference which will be held July 24 - 26 in Louisville, KY.
Abstract (250 words) submission deadline: March 1, 2024
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VIII Beeronomics Conference

The 2024 Beeronomics Conference will take place at University of Milan Bicocca, Italy, 19-22 June. Main panels and sessions will be held at the University of Bicocca main campus located in the heart of the city. The Conference Organising Committee, led by Christian Garavaglia, welcomes all high-quality research on the economics of beer and brewing.

Please find the official Conference Flyer/Call for Paper attached. Additional information about abstract submission and event details can be found on the conference's webpage: https://beeronomics2024.unimib.it/
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Gund Institute Funded PhD Opportunities 

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM) seeks exceptional PhD applicants to start Fall 2024 and conduct interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges. Applications are due January 15, 2024. 
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2024 NAREA Conference

June 9 – 11, 2024   |    Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Program Committee: Chair and President-Elect Donna Ramirez Harrington (University of Vermont, donna.ramirez-harrington@uvm.edu), and Selected Paper Committee Chair Christina McGranaghan (University of Delaware cmcgran@udel.edu).

NAREA invites abstracts for selected papers and posters to be presented at its 2024 Annual Meeting to be held in Rehoboth Beach, DE. We welcome submissions in all areas of resource, environmental, and agricultural economics and encourage submissions from a diversity of scholars—faculty, post-docs, students and other professionals— and especially from those who are under-represented in the economics profession.

Where to Submit: Abstracts for the annual meeting should be submitted through NAREA’s Annual Meeting submission system

Individual Selected Papers and Posters: Submission Deadline: February 10, 2024
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2024 NAREA Annual Meeting Post-Conference Workshop

Measuring and Enhancing Resilience of United States Rural Communities in the Context of Climate Variability

June 11 – 12, 2024   |    Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Organizers: Laura Paul (USDA ERS, laura.paul@usda.gov) and Jonathan Malacarne (University of Maine, jonathan.malacarne@maine.edu)

Theme: Resilience describes the ability of an individual or community to anticipate, absorb, and recover from a negative shock. This workshop is motivated by the need to better understand the implications of increasing climate variability for the resilience of communities in the United States, acknowledging that implications can be either direct, such as the impacts of negative shock events on individuals and communities where they occur, or indirect, such as impacts on communities connected or adjacent to those experiencing shocks.
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68th Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society

Date: February 6-9, 2024
Venue: Australian National University Campus, Canberra, Australia

Description: Theme: Grand Challenges at the Frontier of Applied Economics
The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) is the pre-eminent organisation promoting applied economics research and policy engagement in agricultural and resources industries including, agribusiness, food systems, and the environment. Our journal, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) publishes original, high-quality, and interdisciplinary research and policy analysis pertaining to agriculture, the environment and natural resources.
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