Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Minutes of NC1034 Annual Meeting 3/16/2013 The annual Business Meeting of NC1034 Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research was held in conjunction with the groups annual research conference held in Tucson, Arizona March 15-16, 2013. The research conference theme was Biotechnology Trade and Transfer: Barriers and Opportunities (see attached conference program). Conference attendees: David Bullock, University of Illinois Steven Miller, Michigan State University Wallace E. Huffman, Iowa State University Tom Redick, Global Environmental Ethics Counsel Gregory Graff, Colorado State University David J. Spielman, International Food Policy Research Institute Xingliang Ma, International Food Policy Research Institute Charles Moss, University of Florida Andrew Schmitz, University of Florida Genti Kostandini, University of Georgia Bradley J. Rickard, Cornell University Yu Jin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics George W. Norton, Virginia Tech Russell Tronstad, University of Arizona Tatiana Marquez, University of Arizona (USDA, National Needs Fellow) Gan Jin, University of Arizona The NC-1034 Business Meeting was held on March 16 1:00  2:00 pm Business Meeting Participants: · Chuck Moss (Florida) · Bradley Richard (Cornell) · George Norton (Virginia Tech) · George Frisvold (Arizona) · Marshall Martin (Purdue, AA) · Steven Miller (Michigan State) · Gregory Graff (Colorado State) · David Bullock (Illinois) Report from Marshall Martin (Purdue) (project AA) Were about halfwary way through our current 5-year authorized period of operations. § The past two years have experienced declines in participation. Moving forward, we should consider if we want to continue operating as an NC unit or if we would like to consider changing to a CC. Most NC units are developing protocols for research or developing data for research. The NC1034 is currently more in line with a CC group where the focus is on sponsoring and hosting conferences to discuss topics. § We should have a roll call to identify those still associating themselves with the NC1034. Several appear on the reports, but we have not heard from them in some time. § Annual NC reports due in December are third-party reviewed by department heads. Some participants noted that their institutions would support travel to participate in an NC project, but not a CC project. It was also noted that a way to facilitate the NC unit status would be to produce a group publication as we have done with several book projects in the past. A book effort was discussed, but conversation quickly switched and centered on special issues in journals. One such special issue worth pursuing is the topic area Economics of Research on Emerging and Invasive Biological Threats that would focus on implications of emerging pathogens and pests for research and research management. The committee agreed this would be the topic to be explored in our next meeting and research conference. The emphasis could be on merging biological research to economics. Chuck Moss (Florida) brought up the issue of emerging and invasive biological threats and provided orange greening disease as a key issue affecting more than just Florida oranges. Wheat rust was also brought to light. Chuck also offered the possibility of having the University of Florida host the 2014 conference and business meeting. It was decided that an internet poll of participants be sent out to settle on a date for the conference, so that people could get it on their calendars sooner and to facilitate general announcements and participation of other scholars and government agency officials outside NC1034. Election of officers: George Frisvold (Arizona) was nominated and elected to continue as project President and Steven Miller (Michigan State) was nominated and elected to continue as project Secretary Meeting adjourned at 2:00 p.m.

Short-term Outcomes: § Research findings on agricultural research funding and productivity used by Congressional Research Service in reports to Congress on Research Title of Farm Bill and is cited or posted at websites of the Farm Foundation, Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy, the American Enterprise Institute, the Union of Concerned Scientists, National Science Foundation, the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, Healthy Farms Healthy People Coalition, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies among other organizations. § Research findings on biotechnology and weed resistance management used by and posted on websites of the National Academy of Sciences, the Farm Foundation, Cotton Incorporated, the Institute for Policy Innovation, and the Weed Science Society of America Outputs: § >70 publications (journal articles, scholarly, edited books, or scholarly book chapters) in past year. 10 of these publications were co-authored by 2 or more NC-1034 members. § Database reporting estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector for the 1948-2011 period, and estimates of the growth and relative levels of productivity across the States for the period 1960-2004. Database accessible to researchers online with full documentation of variable descriptions and calculation methods. § Database reporting estimates of public and private agricultural R&D funding by activity. Database is accessible to researchers and downloadable. Activities: § Developed improved methods for measuring capital services in US agriculture, thereby improving measurement of agricultural productivity growth. § Developed improved measures of private agricultural R&D investment to better estimate the role of private R&D and its contribution to agricultural productivity growth § Developed improved estimates of international agricultural productivity growth § Conducted multiple assessments of the impacts of new agricultural technologies in developing countries § Research findings improved understanding of linkages between US and world agricultural and energy markets. Milestones: Multiple project participants involved in: § planning, organizing and presenting project research findings at the Annual Conference of the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research. The conference theme was “The Political Economy of the Bioeconomy: Biotechnology and Biofuel.” § co-editing and contributing chapters to the volume Fugile, K. O. (Ed.). (2012). Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. CABI. § participating in and had chapters published in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Socioeconomic Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops co-organized by European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies and the Food an Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. § Planning, organizing, and contributing research papers at the 5th Berkeley Bioeconomy Conference on “Renewable Resource” in Berkeley, CA, March 2012. § planning, organizing, and contributing research papers at the annual NC-1034 research symposium on Biotechnology Trade and Transfer: Barriers and Opportunities, Tucson, AZ, March 2012

2012 Publications Aldana, U., Barham, B., Foltz, J., & Useche, P. (2012). Early adoption, experience, and farm performance of GM corn seeds. Agricultural Economics, 43(s1), 11-18. Andersen, M. A., Alston, J. M., & Pardey, P. G. (2012). Capital Services in US Agriculture: Concepts, Comparisons, and the Treatment of Interest Rates: An Error and a Correction. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 94(5), 1247-1248. Andersen, M. A., Alston, J. M., & Pardey, P. G. (2012). Capital use intensity and productivity biases. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 37(1), 59-71. Asfaw, S., Lipper, L., Dalton, T. J., & Audi, P. (2012). Market participation, on-farm crop diversity and household welfare: micro-evidence from Kenya. Environment and Development Economics, 1(1), 1-23. Ball, V. E., & Wang, S. L. (2012). Productivity growth in US agriculture. Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2012 Edition, 10. Washington, DC: USDA, Economic Research Service. Beach, R. H., Zhang, Y. W., & McCarl, B. A. (2012). Modeling Bioenergy, Land Use, And Ghg Emissions With Fasomghg: Model Overview And Analysis Of Storage Cost Implications. Climate Change Economics, 3(03), DOI: 10.1142/S2010007812500121. Bekkerman, A., Smith, V. H., & Watts, M. J. (2012). The SURE program and incentives for crop insurance participation: A theoretical and empirical analysis. Agricultural Finance Review, 72(3), 381-401. Bervejillo, J. E., Alston, J. M., & Tumber, K. P. (2012). The benefits from public agricultural research in Uruguay. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 56(4), 475-497. Biscotti, D., Lacy, W. B., Glenna, L. L., & Welsh, R. (2012). Constructing Disinterested Academic Science Relational Work in UniversityIndustry Research Collaborations. Politics & Society, 40(2), 273-308. Bobenrieth, E. S., Bobenrieth, J. R., & Wright, B. D. (2012). Strict concavity of the value function for a family of dynamic accumulation models. The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 12(1). Bond, J., & Graff, G. (2012). GA Alsos, S. Carter, E. Ljunggren, and F. Welter (eds.), The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development. Northhampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. Cahill, S. A., Rich, T., Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (2012). Measurement of Canadian Agricultural Productivity Growth. In Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (eds.) Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Cambridge, MA: CABI. Chavas, J. P., & Shi, G. (2012). Market Concentration and the Analysis of Vertical Organization. International Journal of Marketing Studies, 4(1), 1-6. Chavas, J. P., Barham, B., Foltz, J., & Kim, K. (2012). Analysis and decomposition of scope economies: R&D at US research universities. Applied Economics, 44(11), 1387-1404. Daku, L., Peshin, R., Norton, G. W., & Taylor, D. B. (2012). Economic Impact Assessment of Oilseed IPM Programs. In S.K. Gupta (ed.) Technological Innovations in Major World Oil Crops, Volume 2. Springer New York. Foltz, J. D., Barham, B. L., Chavas, J. P., & Kim, K. (2012). Efficiency and technological change at US research universities. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 37(2), 171-186. Foltz, J. D., Aldana, U. T., & Laris, P. (2012). The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level (NBER Working Paper No. 17801. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Foltz, J. D., & Gajigo, O. (2012). Assessing the Returns to Education in the Gambia. Journal of African Economies, 21(4), 580-608. Francisco, S. R., Aragon, C. A., & Norton, G. W. (2012). Potential poverty reducing impacts of Bt eggplant adoption in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Crop Science, 37(3), 30-39. Frisvold, G. B., & Deva, S. (2012). Farm Size, Irrigation Practices, and Conservation Program Participation in the US Southwest. Irrigation and Drainage, 61(5), 569-582. Frisvold, G.B. (2012) A social science perspective on weed management practices. In National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Symposium. National Research Council (ed.) Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Fuglie, K., Heisey, P., King, J., Pray, C. E., & Schimmelpfennig, D. (2012). The contribution of private industry to agricultural innovation. Science, 338(6110), 1031-1032. Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (2012). Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Cambridge, MA: CABI. Fuglie, K., Heisey, P., King, J., & Schimmelpfennig, D. (2012). Private Industry Investing Heavily, and Globally, in Research To Improve Agricultural Productivity. Amber Waves, (2). Glenna, L., Ader, D., Bauchspies, W., Traoré, A., & Agboh-Noameshi, R. A. (2012). The Efficacy of a Program Promoting Rice Self-Sufficiency in Ghana during a Period of Neoliberalism. Rural Sociology, 77(4), 520-546. Ghimire, R., Norton, J. B., Norton, U., Ritten, J. P., Stahl, P. D., & Krall, J. M. (2012). Long-term farming systems research in the central High Plains. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-11. Graff, G. D., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Agricultural Biotechnology: Equity and Prosperity. In Popp, J. S., Matlock, M. D., Jahn, M. M., & Kemper, N. P. (Eds.). The role of biotechnology in a sustainable food supply. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hagerman, A. D., McCarl, B. A., Carpenter, T. E., Ward, M. P., & O'Brien, J. (2012). Emergency vaccination to control foot-and-mouth disease: Implications of its inclusion as a US policy option. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(1), 119-146. Hagerman, A. D., Jr, K. H. M., & McCarl, B. A. (2012). Economic dimensions and directions of animal disease policy. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 16(4), 248-264. Hochman, G., Kaplan, S., Rajagopal, D., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Biofuel and food-commodity prices. Agriculture, 2(3), 272-281. Huffman, W. E. (2012). Adoption and impacts at farm level in the USA. JRC Scientific and Policy Reports. In M. Lusser, T. Raney, P. Tillie, K. Dillen, and E. Rodriguez Cerezo (Eds.) International workshop on socioeconomic impacts of genetically modified crops co-organised by JRC-IPTS and FAO Workshop proceedings. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union and Rome: Food an Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Huffman, W. E. (2012). Kahnemans Psychology of Value: The Sixth TW Schultz Lecture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 94(2), 285-290. Huffman, W. E. (2012). The Status of Labor-Saving Mechanization in US Fruit and Vegetable Harvesting. Choices, 27(2). Ifft, J., & Zilberman, D. (2012). The Evolution of Animal Agricultural Systems and Supply Chains: Theory and Practice. In D. Zilberman, J. Otte, D. Roland-Holst, D. Pfeiffer. Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries. New York: Springer. Ifft, J., Roland-Holst, D., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Consumer valuation of safety-labeled free-ange chicken: results of a field experiment in Hanoi. Agricultural Economics, 43(6), 607-620. Janda, K., Kristoufek, L., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Biofuels: Policies and impacts. Agricultural Economics, 58(8), 372-386. Khanna, M., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Modeling The Land-Use And Greenhouse-Gas Implications Of Biofuels. Climate Change Economics, 3(03). Kim, K., Chavas, J. P., Barham, B., & Foltz, J. (2012). Specialization, diversification, and productivity: a panel data analysis of rice farms in Korea. Agricultural Economics, 43(6), 687-700. Kristoufek, L., Janda, K., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Correlations between biofuels and related commodities before and during the food crisis: A taxonomy perspective. Energy Economics, 34(5), 1380-1391. Lapan, H., & Moschini, G. (2012). Second-best biofuel policies and the welfare effects of quantity mandates and subsidies. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63(2), 224-241. Leelaruban, N., Oduor, P. G., Akyuz, A., Shaik, S., & Padmanabhan, G. (2012). Leveraging a spatiotemporal drought severity and coverage index with crop yield modelled as a stochastic process. International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 2(3), 219-236. Loveridge, S., Miller, S., & Komarek, T. (2012). Residents Support Entrepreneurship But Policy Lags. Choices, 27(2). Loveridge, S., Miller, S., Komarek, T., & Satimanon, T. (2012). Assessing Regional Attitudes about Entrepreneurship. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 42(3). Miljkovic, D., Shaik, S., & Braun, D. (2012). Impact of biofuel policies on livestock production in the United States. Journal of Policy Modeling. Moschini, G., Cui, J., & Lapan, H. (2012). Economics of Biofuels: An Overview of Policies, Impacts and Prospects. Bio-based and Applied Economics, 1(3), 269-296. Norsworthy, J., S. Ward, D. Shaw, R. Llewellyn, R. Nichols, T. Webster, K. Bradley, G. Frisvold, S. Powles, N. Burgos, W. Witt, & M. Barrett (2012). Reducing the risks of herbicide resistance: best management practices and recommendations. Weed Science, 60(sp1), 31-62. Olson, S. N., Ritter, K., Rooney, W., Kemanian, A., McCarl, B. A., Zhang, Y., ... & Mullet, J. (2012). High biomass yield energy sorghum: developing a genetic model for C4 grass bioenergy crops. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 6(6), 640-655. Pardey, P. G., & Alston, J. M. (2012). For Want of a Nail: The Case for Increased Agricultural R&D Spending. Report in the series, American Boondoggle: Fixing the Farm Bill. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute. Pardey, P. G., Alston, J. M., (2012). Global and US trends in Agricultural R&D in a Global Food Security Setting. In Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems OECD Conference Proceedings. Paris: OECD. Perrin, R., Sesmero, J., Wamisho, K., & Bacha, D. (2012). Biomass supply schedules for Great Plains delivery points. Biomass and Bioenergy, 37, 213-220. Plastina, A., & Fulginiti, L. (2012). Rates of return to public agricultural research in 48 US states. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 37(2), 95-113. Poudel, B. N., Paudel, K. P., Timilsina, G., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Providing Numbers for a Food versus Fuel Debate: An Analysis of a Future Biofuel Production Scenario. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(4), 637-668. Pray, C.E. (2012). Welfare creation and distribution. JRC Scientific and Policy Reports. In M. Lusser, T. Raney, P. Tillie, K. Dillen, and E. Rodriguez Cerezo (Eds.) International workshop on socioeconomic impacts of genetically modified crops co-organised by JRC-IPTS and FAO Workshop proceedings. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union and Rome: Food an Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Roberts, T. W., Peck, D. E., & Ritten, J. P. (2012). Cattle producers economic incentives for preventing bovine brucellosis under uncertainty. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 107(3-4), 187-203. Sauer, J., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Sequential technology implementation, network externalities, and risk: the case of automatic milking systems. Agricultural Economics, 43(3), 233-252. Schmit, T. M., Rickard, B. J., & Taber, J. (2012). Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines, considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 64(2), 483504. Sesmero, J. P., Perrin, R. K., & Fulginiti, L. E. (2012). Environmental efficiency among corn ethanol plants. Biomass and Bioenergy, 46, 634-644. Sexton, S., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Land Food and Fuel Production. In Zivin, J. S. G., & Perloff, J. M. (Eds.) The Intended and Unintended Effects of US Agricultural and Biotechnology Policies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Shaik, S., Allen, A. J., Edwards, S., & Harris, J. (2012). Market Structure Conduct Performance Hypothesis Revisited Using Stochastic Frontier Efficiency Analysis. In Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 48(3), 5-18. Shaik, S., Mishra, A. K., & Atwood, J. (2012). Aggregation issues in the estimation of linear programming productivity measures. Journal of Applied Economics, 15(1), 169-187. Shi, G., & Pray, C. (2012). Modeling agricultural innovation in a rapidly developing country: the case of Chinese pesticide industry. Agricultural Economics, 43(4), 379-390. Shi, G., Chavas, J. P., Stiegert, K., & Meng, X. (2012). An analysis of bundle pricing: the case of biotech seeds. Agricultural Economics, 43(s1), 125-139. Tong, H., Fulginiti, L. E., Sesmero, J. P., Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (2012). Agricultural productivity in China: national and regional growth patterns, 1993-2005. In Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (eds.) Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Cambridge, MA: CABI. Useche, P., Barham, B., & Foltz, J. (2012). A State Contingent Approach to Farmer Valuation and Adoption of New Crop Traits. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Wang, S. L., Ball, V. E., Fulginiti, L. E., Plastina, A., & Fuglie, K. O. (2012). Accounting for the impact of local and spill-in public research, extension and roads on US regional agricultural productivity, 1980-2004. In Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (eds.) Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Cambridge, MA: CABI. Wang, S. L., Schimmelpfennig, D., Fuglie, K. O., & Ball, V. E. (2012). Is Agricultural Productivity Growth Slowing in Western Europe. In Fuglie, K. O., Wang, S. L., & Ball, V. E. (eds.) Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Productivity growth in agriculture: an international perspective. Cambridge, MA: CABI. Waterfield, G., & Zilberman, D. (2012). Pest Management in Food Systems: An Economic Perspective. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37, 223-245. Wright, B. D. (2012). Grand missions of agricultural innovation. Research Policy, 41(10), 17161728. Yeboah, O., Shaik, S., Quaicoe, O., & Wetzstein, M. E. (2012). Evaluating the Causes of Rising Food Prices in Low and Middle Income Countries. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 44(3), 411. Zaitchik, B. F., Simane, B., Habib, S., Anderson, M. C., Ozdogan, M., & Foltz, J. D. (2012). Building climate resilience in the blue nile/abay highlands: A role for earth system sciences. International journal of environmental research and public health, 9(2), 435-461. Zheng, Q., & Shumway, C. R. (2012). Washington biofuel feedstock crop supply under output price and quantity uncertainty. Energy Policy, 48, 515-525. Zilberman, D. (2012). Impacts of biotechnology on global productivity and world food prices. JRC Scientific and Policy Reports. In M. Lusser, T. Raney, P. Tillie, K. Dillen, and E. Rodriguez Cerezo (Eds.) International workshop on socioeconomic impacts of genetically modified crops co-organised by JRC-IPTS and FAO Workshop proceedings. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union and Rome: Food an Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Zilberman, D. & Sexton, S. (2012). Enhancing Productivity while Safeguarding Environmental Quality. In I. Parry and F. Day (Eds.) Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press. Zilberman, D., Sproul, T. W., Sexton, S., & Roland-Holst, D. (2012). The Economics of Zoonotic Diseases: An Application to Avian Flu. In Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries. New York: Springer.