Prof. Alfons Weersink spoke about "Price Volatility, Margin Calls and Hedging Decisions" at the 2010 CAES Workshop on Risk Management in Vancouver, B.C. on April 12, 2010.
Title: Price Volatility, Margin Calls and Hedging Decisions
Speaker: Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph
Co-author: Getu Hailu, University of Guelph
Jacob Kerkhoff, M.Sc. student in the Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics department, spent two months at Wageningen University (the Netherlands) through the Erasmus Mundus International Exchange Program.
Dr. Alan Olmstead will be presenting this year's Farrell Lecture - Wednesday, September 16th, entitled "Learning to Integrate Science and Public Policy to Combat Livestock Diseases in the United States". The Lecture will take place at the Lifetime Learning Centre, OVC, Room 1714.
Nicole Beechey is one of the team members who tied for first place in the Student Case Competition at the 19th annual Food and Agribusiness World Forum and Symposium (IAMA) held in Budapest, Hungary from June 20-23rd. Nicole is commencing her M.Sc. in the Dept. of FARE in 2009.
Congratulations to Mike Weber a MSc. student in the Department of FARE, under the supervision of Dr. Maury Bredahl who has been approved from the MITACS ACCELERATE Internship Program for a project on "Utilizing Key Performance Indicators to Increase the Production Efficiency of Ontario Cow Calf Operations".
MITACS is providing one‐half of the funding towards internship, with the balance being contributed from your project’s industry partner, Ontario Cattlemen’s Association. The objective of MITACS ACCELERATE is to provide graduate student researchers with applied research opportunities by enabling them to work with organizations to address real business issues. More information about the ACCELERATE Program is available at www.mitacsaccelerate.ca; more information about MITACS can be found at http://www.mitacs.ca/.