VanBuren Lecture - 1998

Dates  April 6 - 7, 1998
Lecturer Dr. Rob King is Professor and E. Fred Koller Chair in Agricultural Management Information Systems in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Current research includes economics of information systems, organizational design, supermarket operations, and cooperative management. Recent publications have appeared in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Review Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Agricultural Systems, and Journal of Cooperatives.

The 1998 VanBuren Lecturer participated in the following activities during the two-day program:

Group Activity
   Seminar: The Economics of Site Specific Management and Crop Production.
 Class - Ag Econ 610, Farm Management.  Discussion of the likely impact of emerging technologies on farm management.
 Faculty and Students Interested in Precision Farming Research  Precision Farming Research - Priorities and Methods.
 VanBuren Farm Management Club.  Discussion of farm management opportunities as impacted by emerging technologies.
 Economics and Ohio's Environment: a Learning Workshop -- an in-service for county and district faculty of The Ohio State University Extension.  Economics of Emerging Site-specific Farming Technologies.
 Class - Ag Econ 502, Management Science.  Discussion of emerging information systems as a tool of management.

 

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