SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NC1034 : Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research
- Period Covered: 01/01/2024 to 12/31/2024
- Date of Report: 05/28/2025
- Annual Meeting Dates: 03/28/2025 to 03/29/2025
Participants
Julian Alston, University of California Davis Tala Awada, University of Nebraska John Coates, University of California Berkeley Wojciech Florkowski, University of Georgia Gregory Graff, Colorado State University Gahl Hochman, University of Illinois Jared Hutchins, University of Illinois Susan Jenkins, University of California Berkeley Yanhong Jin, Rutgers University Valerie Kilders, Purdue University Jonathan McFadden, USDA Lowell Randel, The Randel Group Xudong Rao, Texas AgriLife Research Brad Ringeisen, University of California Berkeley Sofia Villas-Boas, University of California Berkeley Xingguo Wang, Texas A&M Zhan Wang, Purdue University Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University Laura Wood, National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research Brian Wright, University of California Berkeley Yu Zhang, Texas AgriLife Research David Zilberman, University of California Berkeley
The 2025 NC1034 Annual Meeting
This year’s NC1034 annual meeting was another great success. We had in total 22 participants including members and friends of NC1034. David Zilberman really went all out to make this year’s meeting a truly memorable Berkeley experience. Gordon Rausser gave a keynote address at the hosted dinner. Thank you, David!
At this year’s business meeting, we decided that the 2026 annual meeting will be held at Fort Worth, TX over March 27-28 (Fri.-Sat.). We are grateful to Xudong Rao and Xingguo Wang from Texas A&M, who graciously volunteered to host next year’s meeting.
Please find the business meeting minutes attached below.
Minutes of the 2025 Business Meeting:
- 2026 meeting plans:
- Location and date: Fort Worth, TX; March 27-28 (Fri.-Sat.);
- Planning committee: Xudong Rao (TAMU), Ruiqing Miao (Auburn), Gal Hochman (UIUC), and Jared Hutchins (UIUC);
- AAEA section proposal:
- Chaired by David Zilberman; Jonathan Tillinghast at TAMU and Jared Hutchins at UIUC will assist David in proposal preparation;
- Need to decide a title of this section. Keywords include: (Ag)Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, bioeconomy, productivity, technology. Titles such as ‘Agricultural Innovation’, ‘Economics of Agricultural Innovation’, ‘Economics of Innovation’ were discussed at the meeting. No final decisions were made on the title.
- Greg Graff mentioned a possibility to have a CSU Denver Spur Campus tour at 2025 AAEA annual meeting;
- NC1034 Multi-state project proposal renewal:
- The new proposal is due by the end of 2025;
- Formed a writing committee (team A): Ruiqing Miao, Gal Hochman, Xudong Rao, Greg Graff, and Valeri Kilders;
- Formed a review committee (team B): Julian Alston, Jared Hutchins, Yanhong Jin, and David Zilberman; other candidates for the review committee recommended by members (to be confirmed): GianCarlo Moschini; Carl Pray; Brian Wright;
- The committees need to start working on the new proposal at the beginning of the summer;
- The writing should reflect the current economic and political environment.
Addendum to the minutes made by Greg Graff: we were approached this winter, as NC1034, by Stephanie Mercier and Steve Halbrook of the Senior Section of AAEA about co-hosting a track session at the summer AAEA meetings in Denver. After some deliberations about topics and some targeted invitations, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea kindly volunteered to be the NC1034 presenter. The session was proposed and approved as follows:
Monday July 28
"Innovation is Vital to Agricultural Growth—Past, Present, and Future"
Organizers: Stephanie Mercier, Farm Journal Foundation (Senior Section); Steve Halbrook, University of Arkansas (Senior Section); Gregory Graff, Colorado State University (NC1034)
Panelists: Andrew McKenzie, University of Arkansas; Stephanie Mercier, Farm Journal Foundation; Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University (NC1034)
Moderator: Steve Halbrook, University of Arkansas