VanBuren Calendar of Events / Announcements

Recent and Future Events and Activities

 
Event / Announcement Date / Location
Event   On the Relative Contribution of Local Production, Organic Certification, Nutritional Claims, and Product Branding on Consumer Choice for a Processed Food Product.  Seminar presented at the University of Kentucky, 1:30 pm, March 31, 2009, 341 Charles E. Barnhart Building.
Research   2008 Ohio Consumer Survey --  Survey results are available at this web site.
Research   2008 Kentucky Shoppers Survey -- Survey results are available at this web site.
Event   National Research Initiative Research Proposal Review Panel, Washington DC, September, 2008
Event   National Research Initiative Project Directors meeting, Manchester, NH,  July, 2008
Recent Publication   Diekmann, Florian and Marvin T. Batte.  2008. "Information search of farmers: Findings from a survey in Ohio, USA.” Agricultural Information Wordwide, 1 (2): 65-67.
Recent Publication  

Diekmann, Florian, Brian E. Roe and Marvin T. Batte.  2008. "Tractors on eBay: Differences between Internet and In-Person Auctions."  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol 9, No. 2, 2008:  306-320

Recent Publication  

Darby, Kim, Marvin T. Batte, Stan Ernst and Brian Roe.  2008. “Decomposing Local:  A Conjoint Analysis of Locally Produced Foods."  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol 9, No. 2, 2008:  476-486.

Recent Publication  

Isgin, Tamer, Abdulbaki Bilgic, D. Lynn Forster, and Marvin T. Batte. 2008. “Using Count Data Models to Determine the Factors Affecting Farmers' Quantity Decisions of Precision Farming Technology Adoption.”  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 62(2): 231-242.

Recent Publication  

Ernst, Stan; Marvin T. Batte and Julie T. McNaull.  2007. "Pie Potential: Examining Berry Market Expansion Through Baked Goods." Research Update. Journal of Food Distribution Research.  v.38 no.1; March 2007.

Recent Publication  

Batte, Marvin T. and Stan Ernst.  "Net Gains from 'Net Purchases?:  Farmers' Preferences for Online and Local Input Purchases ".  Forthcoming in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, April 2007.

Recent Publication  

Batte, Marvin T., Neal H. Hooker, Timothy C. Haab, and Jeremy Beaverson.  2007. "Putting Their Money Where Their Mouths Are: Consumer Willingness to Pay for Multi-Ingredient, Processed Organic Food Products."  Food Policy, 32 (2):145-159.

Recent Publication  

Batte, Marvin T. "Shopping at the Farm Office:  What is the Future of Farm e-Commerce?"  The Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, Vol. 69(2006), No. 1: 100-105.

Recent Publication  

Batte, Marvin T. and Mohammad Reza Ehsani. "The economics of precision guidance with auto-boom control for farmer-owned agricultural sprayers." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol 53(1) 2006:28-44.

Activities
VanBuren Lecture Series

VanBuren Research
Precision Farming
Computers, Information systems and e-commerce
Organic Foods - Production issues
Organic Foods - Consumer and labeling issues
Direct Marketing of Season-long Berry Production Project
Drainage Economics