Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

The theme of the meeting continued our exploration of the Future of Agribusiness Research, Teaching and Extension that began at the annual meeting in 2017, as well as present new research, extension and teaching ideas. We conducted strategic planning sessions for agribusiness teaching and extension efforts on the second day of the meetings to help facilitate increased multi-state collaborative projects in these areas.

Faculty (13); graduate students (4) and an undergraduate student participated in the 2018 WERA-72 annual meeting at the Alumni Center located on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. The registration fee was waived for graduate and undergraduate students that presented papers and a significant effort was made to again increase graduate student participation.

The program started on Tuesday morning (6/19) with a welcome from Dr. Jason Bergtold. The first day was comprised of 14 research, extension and teaching presentations. We then had a short meeting about activities on the Future of Agribusiness started at the 2017 annual meeting. The day ended with our annual business and executive team meetings.

The second day of the program started with a tour at the Plumlee Buffalo Ranch, where attendees learned about local buffalo and other ranching operations and conditions in Kansas. Attendees were given a two hour tour of the ranch and agribusiness presentation by the owners. In the afternoon, two break-out sessions helped to develop multi-state collaborative projects that would help to assess teaching efforts in agribusiness classes and the impacts on graduating students entering the job market, as well as how to improve coordination among agribusiness extension professionals using state-of-the art online tools. We concluded with a time of general discussion and adjourned the meeting.

Business Meeting Agenda

WERA-72 Business Meeting

Manhattan, Kansas

June 19, 2018

Call to Order

Approval of 2017 Annual Meeting Minutes

Reports

1. Treasurer’s Report
2. Update on WERA-72 Website

Old Business

1. Annual Report Requirements and Timeline
2. Other Old Business

New Business

1. 2018 Report/Publication Data
2. WERA-72 Renewal
3. Elections
4. 2019 Plans
   1. Location – North Dakota, David Ripplinger
   2. Content Ideas
5. Other New Business

2018 Business Minutes

WERA 72 Business Meeting Minutes

Manhattan, KS

June 19^th, 2018

Attendees: David Ripplinger, Kate Brooks, Aaron Johnson, Jason Bergtold, Michael Barrowclough, Tim Woods, Aleksan Shanoyan, Simon Jette-Nantel, Maria Boerngen, Kota Minegishi, Youngran Choi, Na Zuo, George Hoselton, Connor McCollum, Marshal Frasier

Meeting was called to order by President Jason Bergtold

Reports:

• 2017 business meeting minutes were handed out for approval
  • Aleksan Shanoyan moved for approval, Marshal Frasier seconded, approved unanimously.
• Treasurer’s report: Scott Downey (absent) prepared report which was distributed to attendees.
  • Currently waiting for funds back from AAEA. Report needs amended to read $7500 to be received from AAEA not $5000.  
  • Current meeting has projected revenues of $3300 with about $2500 or $2600 in expenses with the largest expense being food.
  • Attendance down compared to last year, somewhat due to California ban on travel to Kansas
  • Aaron Johnson moved for approval, Tim Woods seconded, approved unanimously.
• Jason Bergtold provided an update in regards to the Website
  • They are keeping information up-to-date, but need ideas. If you have ideas or pictures, please let Jason know. Also, you can email Jason the PowerPoint/papers from presentations at meetings this year to be added to the website.

Old Business

• Members need to provide publication/presentation data for the 2017-2018 report. Time frame is based on USDA fiscal year so needing publications and presentations from October 2017 to September 2018. These can include agribusiness related material from teaching, research and/or extension. Please emphasize any multi-state work if you have it. These can be emailed to Jason Bergtold at bergtold@ksu.edu in a word document.
• Listserv: Aaron Johnson mentioned that he has been working to clean up the listserv but more needs to be done. They have cleaned it up through mail chimp but it is partially updated. Currently need to look at additions. If you have colleagues that are not receiving WERA 72 information please have them send an email to David Ripplinger to be added to the list. Emails are also be circulated through AEM and TLC listserv.

New Business

• 2018 Annual report – was discussed in old business but is due in 60 days after the meeting
• New WERA-72 Project Proposal
  • Gwen Whipple is retiring so WERA 72 will have new administrator
  • This is a 5 year proposed project due by January 1, 2019
  • Old document is online
  • If you have any thoughts/suggestions, please let the executive committee know
• WERA 72 is hosting two projects on Future of Agribusiness
  • Track Session at 2018 AAEA annual meetings hosted by TLC & AEM
    • Overview, research, teaching, and extension presentations based on 2017 WERA 72 meetings on the future of agribusiness
    • Information form sessions plus this year’s discussion will put together Choices articles
• Location and dates for meeting in 2019: David Ripplinger
  • Based on previous year discussion, annual meetings are going to be held near President’s home institution. David Ripplinger proposed 2019 meetings will be in Fargo, ND on June 11-12, 2019.
    • Aaron Johnson moved the motion for dates and location, Marshall Frasier seconded, unanimously approved.
• Discussion of registration fee and student fees
  • Student fees have never been charged
  • Aaron Johnson moved to make registration free for the first 10 new members and $100 for new members past 10, conditional on receiving accounts receivable from AAEA. Marshall Frasier Seconded. Motion approved unanimously.
• Elections for Secretary:
  • Aaron Johnson nominated Simon Jette-Nantel and Maria Boerngen. Marshall Frasier moved nominations close and Aleksan Shanoyan seconded, motion passed. Each candidate made comments about themselves. Maria Boerngen was elected.

Aaron Johnson moved to adjourn, Aleksan Shanoyan seconded, meeting adjourned.

Treasurer’s Report

2018 Treasurer’s Report

WERA – 72

June 19, 2018

Update:

The WERA-72 treasury is currently held in an account at Purdue University. WERA-72 remains in strong financial condition. Last year’s reported balance was $7,528.85, which included neither revenue nor expenses. Revenue from the 2017 event totaled $2,575.35. Expenses for the meeting were $3,990.97 plus $5,252.20 in travel expenses for the four wisemen who brought their expertise to the planning meeting. This results in a current cash balance of $859.43 plus a receivable from AAEA of $5,000 which has been invoiced but not yet received.

Projections and Recommendations:

There are 18 registered for this year’s event with five of these as graduate students for expected revenue of $3,300, against what would be expected as similar expenses.

The promotion of this year’s program and venue appear to be successful for recent non-west coast events at universities.  Here are past attendances for all registrants and students for each venue since 2011.

Submitted in absentia by: Scott Downey

Treasurer WERA-72

Georgia

Vinson, E., E. Coneva, J. Kemble, F. Woods, J. Sibley, E.G. Fonsah, P. Perkins-Veazie, and J. Kessler Jr (2018).  “Prediction of Flower Emergence and Evaluation of Cropping Potential in Selected Banana Cultivars (Musa sp.) Cultivated in Subtropical Conditions of Coastal Alabama”,  HortScience-13290 (forthcoming)

Vinson, III E.L., E. Coneva, J.  Kemble, F. Woods, J. Sibley, E. G. Fonsah, P. Perkins-Veazie, and R. Kessler (2018).  “Prediction of Flower Emergence and Evaluation of Crop Cycle Duration, Cold Tolerance and Fruit Production Potential in non-Cavendish and Cavendish Banana Cultivars in Response to Subtropical Conditions of Coastal Alabama”, HortScience Journal Manuscript#-12900 (forthcoming).

Kaninda, S., E.G. Fonsah, G.E. Boyhan, E.L. Little and J.W. Gaskin (2018). “Economic Analysis of Crop Rotation Systems for High Value Cool-Season Vegetables in Southern Region of the USA”. (Forthcoming).

Kaninda, S. T., G. Kostandini and E. G. Fonsah (2018) “The Impact of Migration, Remittances and Public Transfers on Technology Adoption: The Case of Cereal Producers in Rural Kenya”, Journal of Agricultural Economics – Decision on Manuscript ID JAE-OA-11-16-0246.R1.

Fonsah, E.G., M. Tertuliano, S. Chattapadhya, T. Manower, A. Hussain, S. Islam, Md.S. Isalam, Md. J. Uddin, A. S. Amin, and B. Amin (2018).  “A Survey of Agricultural Value Chain: A Case Study of Bangladesh Banana Industry”, Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Vol. 7 (1) 141-148.

Fonsah, E.G., Y. Chen, S. Diffie, R. Srinivansan and D. Riley (2018).  “Economic Productivity and Profitability Analysis for Whiteflies and Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) Management Options.”, Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Vol. 7 (1): 1-9. 

Awondo, S. N., O. A. Ramirez, G. S. Datta, G. Colson & E. G. Fonsah (2018). “Estimation of Crop Yields and Insurance Premiums Using a Shrinkage Estimator”. North American Actuarial Journal, 0(0), 1–20, 2018

Vinson III, E.L., Coneva, E.D., Kemble, J.M., Woods, F.M., Sibley, J.L., Perkins-Veazie, P.M. and Fonsah, E.G. (2017). Phenological parameter responses gauge banana fruit production potential in the coastal region of Alabama, USA. Acta Hortic. 1178, 61-66 DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1178.11.

Awondo, S. N., E. G. Fonsah and D. J. Gray. (2017)  “Incorporating Structure and Stochasticity in Muscadine grapes Enterprise Budget and Investment Analysis”, HortTechnology: 27 (2): 212-222 (April).

Awondo, N. S., O.A. Ramirez, G. Colson, E.G. Fonsah, G. Kostandini (2016).  “Self-Protection from Weather Risk Using Improved Maize Varieties or Off-Farm Income and the Propensity for Insurance”, Agricultural Economics 48 (2016) 1–16.

Ahmadiani, M., C. Li², Y. Liu E.G. Fonsah, C. M. Bliss, B. V. Brodbeck and P. C. Andersen (2016).  “Profitability of Organic Vegetable Production via Sod Based Rotation and Conventional Versus Strip Tillage in the Southern Coastal Plain”, Sustainable Agriculture Research, Vol. 5 (4) (November).

Boyhan, G., J. Gaskin, E. Little, E.G. Fonsah, and S. Stone (2016).  “Evaluation of Cool Season Vegetable Rotations in Organic Production”.  HortTechnology: 26 (5):637-646.

Fonsah, E. G., (2015).  Book Review: Land Grabbing in Africa: The Race for Africa’s Rich Farmland, Edited by Fassil Demissie, Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, Vol:7 (4):336-338.

Riley, D., Sparks, A., Jr., Srinivasan, R., Kennedy, G., Fonsah, G., Scott, J., Olson, S., (2018). Thrips: Biology, Ecology, and Management. In: Wakil, W., Brust, G.E., Perring, T.M. (Eds.), Chapter 3: Sustainable Management of Arthropod Pests of Tomato. First Edition, Academic Press, Elsevier, pp. 49–71.

Illinois

Andrew Geil, Glen Sagers, Aslıhan D. Spaulding, and James Wolf. 2018. “Cyber Security on The Farm: An Assessment of Cyber Security Practices in the Agriculture Industry.” International Food and Food and Agribusiness Management Review: 21 (3).  pp. 317 – 334.

Boerngen, M.A., D. Kopsell, J. Leptein, and A.M. VanDerZanden. 2018. Faculty perceptions of incorporating service-learning into landscape horticulture courses. NACTA Journal 62(2):175-180.

Boerngen, M.A. and E. Hortenstine. 2018. Risk tolerance and cheap talk in the college classroom. NACTA Journal, Vol. 62, Suppl.1:9 (Abstr.).

Lucy Loftus, Aslıhan D. Spaulding, Richard Steffen, Dave Kopsell, and Nweze Nnakwe. 2017. “Determining Barriers to Use of Edible School Gardens in Illinois.” Journal of the American College of Nutrition. Vol. 36. Issue.7. pp. 507-513.

Rickard, J.W., M.A. Boerngen, S.M. Lorenz, and E. Baker. 2017. Assessing student demographics in a non-land-grant university department of agriculture. Natural Sciences Education 46(1):170021 (published online 14 December 2017).

Kansas

Embaye, W., J.S. Bergtold, D. Archer, C. Flora, G. Andrango, M. Odening and J. Buysse. “Examining Farmers’ Willingness to Grow and Allocate Land for Oilseed Crops for Biofuel Production.” Energy Economics (Accepted March 2018): Forthcoming.

Sant’Anna, A.C., J.S. Bergtold, A. Shanoyan, G. Granco and M.M. Caldas. “Examining the Relationship Between Vertical Coordination Strategies and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Industry.” Agribusiness (Accepted February 2018): Forthcoming.

Granco, G., A.C. Sant’Anna, J.S. Bergtold, M.M. Caldas. “Factors Influencing Ethanol Mill Location in a New Sugarcane Producing Region in Brazil.” Biomass and Bioenergy 111 (2018): 125 – 133.

Kentucky

Thilmany, Dawn and Timothy A. Woods (2018), “Local Food Coming of Age: The Evolution of the Local Brand, Policy Initiatives and Role of Direct Markets in the Agriculture Portfolio”, Choices 33(3):1-2

Holcomb, Rodney B., Clinton L. Neill, Joanna Lelekacs, Margarita Velandia, Timothy A. Woods, H.L. Goodwin, and Ronald L. Rainey (2018), “A Local Food System Glossary: A Rose by Any Other Name”, Choices 33(3)

Rossi, Jairus J., Timothy A. Woods, and James E. Allen IV (2017), “Impacts of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Voucher Program on Food Lifestyle Behaviors: Evidence from an Employer-Sponsored Pilot Program”, Sustainability  http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9091543

Rossi, Jairus, James E. Allen, Timothy A. Woods, and Alison F. Davis  (2017), “CSA Shareholder Food Lifestyle Behaviors: A Comparison Across Different Consumer Groups”, Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, doi:10.1007/s10460-017-9779-7, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-017-9779-7

Saghaian, S., M. Nemati, C. Walters, and B. Chen. (2018). “Asymmetric Price Volatility Transmission between U.S. Biofuel, Corn, and Oil Markets.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 43(1):46-60.

Seok, J. H., S. Saghaian, and M. Reed. (2018). “The ‘Signaling Effect’ and the Impact of High Maximum Residue Limit Standards on U.S. Vegetable Exports.” Economic Analysis and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2018.04.004

Nemati, M. and S. Saghaian. (2018). “Dynamics of Price Adjustment in Qualitatively Differentiated U.S. Markets: The Case of Organic and Conventional Apples.” Journal of Agribusiness, 36, 1 (spring): 1-20.

Saghaian, S. and H. Mohammadi. (2018). “Factors Affecting Frequency of Fast Food Consumption.” Journal of Food Distribution Research, 49(1):22-29.

Hansen, C., J. C. Stowe, and S. Saghaian. (2018). “How Determinants of Thoroughbred Stud Fees Change over Time: A Hedonic Price Approach.” Journal of Agribusiness, 36, 1 (spring): 89-108.

Darbandi, E. and S. Saghaian. (2018). “Beef Consumption Reduction and Climate Change Mitigation.” International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics, 6(2):49-61.

Alamri, Y, and S. Saghaian. (2018). “Measuring the Intensity of Competition among Rice Exporters to Saudi Arabia.” International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 8, (1): 355-366.

Chen, B. and S. Saghaian, and Y. Zheng. (2017). “Organic Labelling, Private Label, and U.S. Household Demand for Fluid Milk.” Applied Economics, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1414936.

Mohammadi, H., S. Saghaian, and P. Alizadeh. (2017). “Prioritization of Expanded Marketing Mix in Different Stages of the Product Life Cycle: The Case of Food Industry.” Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. (19): 993-1003.

Reed, M. and S. Saghaian. (2018). “Macroeconomic Issues in Agricultural Economics.” In Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Editors Cramer, G.L., K.P. Paudel, and A. Schmitz, Chapter 22:399-411.

Nebraska

Westerhold, A., C. Walters, K. Brooks, M. Vandeveer, J. Volesky, W. Schacht. 2018. "Risk implications from the selection of rainfall index insurance intervals", Agricultural Finance Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-10-2017-0097

Brooks, K., C. Walters, J. Parsons, A. Ramirez, L. Van Tassell, B. Lubben and J. D. Aiken. 2018. “Characteristics Contributing to Nebraska Farm and Ranch Financial Stress.” Journal of American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, 2018: 140-156. (Link).

Brooks, K., C. Walters, J. Parsons, A. Ramirez, L. Van Tassell, B. Lubben and J. D. Aiken. 2018. “Characteristics Contributing to Nebraska Farm and Ranch Financial Stress.” Cornhusker Economics: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

North Dakota

Qin, Ming, Cheryl Joy Wachenheim, Zhigang Wang, Shi Zheng. 2018. Factors affecting Chinese farmers’ microcredit participation. Agricultural Finance Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-12-2017-0111.

Şentürklü, Songul, Douglas G Landblom, Robert Maddock, Tim Petry, Cheryl J. Wachenheim, and Steve I. Paisley. 2018. Effect of yearling steer sequence grazing of perennial and annual forages in an integrated crop and livestock system on grazing performance, delayed feedlot entry, finishing performance, carcass measurements, and systems economics. Journal of Animal Science 96(6): 2204–2218.

Zheng, Shi, Zhigang Wang, and Cheryl Joy Wachenheim. 2018. Technology adoption among farmers in Jilin Province, China: The case of aerial pesticide application. China Agricultural Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-11-2017-0216.

Wachenheim, Cheryl, David C. Roberts, Nana Addo, and John Devney. 2018. Farmer Preferences for a Working Wetlands Program. Wetlands Journal. doi:10.1007/s13157-018-1052-3.

Wachenheim, Cheryl, David C. Roberts, Neeraj Dhingra, William Lesch, and John Devney. 2018. Effects of Contract Attributes on Conservation Reserve Program Enrollment Decisions in the Prairie Pothole Region: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 73(3): 337-352. doi:10.2489/jswc.73.3.337

Zhu, Qianyu, Cheryl J. Wachenheim, Zhiyao Ma and Cong Zhu. 2017. Supply Chain Re-engineering: A Case Study of the Tonghui Agricultural Cooperative in Inner Mongolia. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 21(1), pp. 133 – 160. https://doi.org/10.22434/IFAMR2016.0095.

Wachenheim, Cheryl and Eric Ahlness. 2017. Experiential Learning for a Combat Deployment. NACTA Journal 61(3), pp. 219-225.

Zheng, Shi, Zhigang Wang, and Cheryl Wachenheim. 2017. Risk Perceptions and Risk Attitudes among Chinese Consumers: the Toxic Capsule Crisis. Journal of Risk Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2017.1281337.

South Carolina

Scalco, Andrea, Roberta de Castro de Souza Pião, Willerson Lucas Campos, and Gregory A. Baker. 2017 Forthcoming. "A Independêcia da Escolha dos Canais de Marketing nas Rendas do Produtores Orgânicos Americanos.” Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (Rural Sociology and Economy Journal). Vol. 55, No. 4.

Deikmann, Lucy O., Leslie Gray, and Gregory A. Baker. 2017 Forthcoming. "Drought, Water Access, and Urban agriculture: A Case Study from Silicon Valley." Local Environment, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2017.1351426.

Texas

Antwi, Kwaku, Conrad Lyford and Richard Yeboah.  “Analysis of Food Security among Cocoa Producing Households in Ghana.”  Journal of Agriculture and Sustainability, (2018, 11, 2:  129-144).  ISSN 2201-4357

Oldewage-Theron, Wilna, Sara Duvenage, Abdulkadir Egal, Conrad Lyford.  “Comparative analysis of the factors contributing to sustainability of a food and nutrition intervention programme: Two case studies from South Africa.”    Evaluation and Program Planning, 71 (2018): 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.08.003

Namini, Sima. Darren Hudson, Alexandre Trindade, Conrad Lyford.  “Commodity price volatility and U.S. monetary policy: Commodity price overshooting revisited.”  Agribusiness June 2018.  DOI: 10.1002/agr.21564

Thapa, Janani and Conrad Lyford.  “Nudges to Increase Fruits and Vegetables Consumption:  Results from a Field Experiment,”  The Journal of Child Nutrition & Management Spring 2018, 42 (1).

Thapa, Janani, Conrad Lyford, Barent McCool, Barbara Pence, Audrey McCool, and Eric Belasco.  “Improving Cancer Risk Awareness including Obesity as a Risk Factor for Cancer in a Small U.S. Community,” Journal of Cancer Education (2017, 32, 4:  827-835) doi:10.1007/s13187-016-1060-z