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Prof. Alfons Weersink spoke about "Price Volatility, Margin Calls and Hedging Decisions"...

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

Dr. Alan P. Ker, Chair speaks about "Risk Management in New Ventures" at the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Assoc.....

Dr. Alan P. Ker, Chair speaks about "Risk Management in New Ventures" at the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association on March 31, 2010.

Predrag Rajsic, Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of FARE is speaking about "Did Rothbard Borrow the Income and Substitution Effects"

Drs. Brady Deaton and Richard Vyn have a publication in the American Journal of ...

Drs. Brady Deaton and Richard Vyn have a co-authored publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics "The Effect of Strict Agricultural Zoning on Agricultural Land Values: the Case of Ontario’s Greenbelt".

Seminar March 11th - Dr. Abdoul G. Sam presents "Impact of Pension Privatization on Foreign Direct Investments:...

Dr. Abdoul G. Sam, Assistant Professor, Department of AED Economics, Ohio State University, speaks about the"Impact of Pension Privatization on Foreign Direct Investments: An Empirical Study of the Latin American Experiment" on March 11, 2010, 4:00 - 5:30 pm in Room 101, J.D. MacLachlan Building.

M.Sc. Grad Student, Jacob Kerkoff, was in the Netherlands...

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.

Jacob wrote a blog about his stay in Holland at http://observationcapsules.wordpress.com/.

TODAY -- Kenneth R. Farrell Distinguished Public Policy Lectureship

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.

Congratulations to FARE Agricultural Business Student Nicole Beechey!

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.

Debate for the Menger-Walras Trophy in FARE*6100

Congratulations to the winning team from the FARE*6100 debate this past semester.

Winners of the Menger-Walras Trophy 2009

Stewart Skinner, Prosper Koto, Prof. Glenn Fox, Tasneem Virani, Shashini Ratnasena, Chatura Pulasinghage

Internship with MITACS ACCELERATE for Mike Weber, Grad Student in FARE

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/.