VanBuren Calendar of Events / Announcements

 

 
Event / Announcement Date / Location
Presentation - An Extended Season Berry Production System to Enhance the Violability of Small Appalachian Farms and Rural Communities   National Research Initiative Project Directors Meeting, Washington, DC, March 9, 2007.
Presentation  -  Economics of Precision Farming.   Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, Ada, Ohio, February 23, 2007.
forthcoming  

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.

Just Published  

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.

VanBuren Lecture, Autumn 2006
Economics of Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Biomass Crops  (Abstract)
  Dr. Madhu Khanna, Professor of agricultural Economics, The University of Illinois.  November 2, 2006, 3:30 pm at 105 Agricultural Administration Building (Reception at 3:00 pm).
Presentation - Willingness to pay for locally produced foods: A customer intercept study of direct market and grocery stores.   July 26, 2006, 10:30 am. American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA.
Just Published  

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.

Just Published  

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.

M.S. Degree Awarded   Ms. Kimberly Darby was awarded the Master of Science degree from Ohio State in June, 2006.  Kim was a research associate working with the VanBuren Program.
VanBuren Club Meeting   March 1, 2006, 7:00 pm.  Dr. Batte presented Consumer Willingness to Pay for Locally Produced Foods.  Agricultural Administration 246
Presentation - eBay for Agriculture   AEDE Professional Update, Columbus, OH  January 25, 2006
Presentation - Marketing of locally produced foods:  Evidence from a  Customer Intercept Survey of Ohio Food Shoppers.   The Case for Local Food Systems Conference, January 11, 2006, Agricultural Administration Auditorium, The Ohio State University.

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