VanBuren Lecture Series

The lecture program is a major activity of the VanBuren Program. In its current form, the VanBuren Lecture Program includes a visit of an internationally known scholar in management who interacts with our faculty, students and farm clientele in a number of formats. Following is a list of VanBuren Lectures given to date.
 

Date	Lecture
1991	John Ikerd, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri
1991	Jack McEowen
1992	Glen Schmidt
1993	Dennis Avery, Center for Global Food Issues
1994	Chris Hurt, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
April 17-18, 1996	Dr Steven T. Sonka, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois. InfoAg and the Knowledge Creating Organization.
May 22-23, 1997	Dr. Michael Boehlje, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. On the Industrialization of Agriculture.
April 6-7, 1998	Dr. Robert King, Professor of Applied Economics, The University of Minnesota. The Economics of Site Specific Management and Crop Production.
April 28-29, 1999	Dr. James M. (Jess) Lowenberg-DeBoer, Professor of Agricultural Economics Purdue University. Managing Production Risk with Precision Farming Technologies.
May 3-4, 2000	Dr. Marshall A. Martin, Professor of Agricultural Economics Purdue University.  The Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology.
May 30-31, 2001	Dr. Steven C. Turner, Professor of Agricultural Economics University of Georgia.  Adoption Strategies for Information Technology in Agriculture.
November 1-2, 2006	Dr. Madhu Khanna, Professor of Agricultural Economics, The University of Illinois.  Economics of Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Biomass Crops.
February 5, 2009	Dr. Bruce Babcock, Professor of Economics and Director of CARD (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development), Iowa State University.  Supply Impacts of Ethanol in Market Equilibrium.

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