Webinar: The Outlook for Agricultural Markets and Policy

Mar. 20, 2012 9:00am — 10:00am

Seats are Available: Members $0.00 Non-Members $125.00

Attend GAIN's upcoming webinar "Turbulence Ahead? The Outlook for Agricultural Markets and Policy" 

 

When: Tuesday, March 20

 

Time: 10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT / 8 a.m. MT / 7 a.m. PT

 

Description: What's next for farm commodity markets and policy? Pat Westhoff, director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), will discuss FAPRI's 10-year outlook for the farm economy and explain why market volatility is likely to continue. He'll also discuss the latest developments in Washington and what a new farm bill might look like.

 

Presenter: Pat Westhoff, Director, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) & Professor of Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Missouri

 

Westhoff is a native of Manchester, Iowa, where he grew up on the family dairy farm. He has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Iowa, a Master's in Latin American studies from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Iowa State University. 

 

Westhoff served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala from 1979-81, and later worked with FAPRI at Iowa State University. From 1992-1996, he served as an economist with the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. 

 

He joined FAPRI at the University of Missouri in 1996, and has worked on a range of projects in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Westhoff is the author of The Economics of Food: How Feeding and Fueling the Planet Affects Food Prices, published in 2010 by FT Press.

 

About FAPRI

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) is a unique, dual-university research program, established in 1984 by a grant from the U.S. Congress, to prepare baseline projections for the U.S. agricultural sector and international commodity markets and to develop capability for policy analysis using comprehensive data and computer modeling systems of the world agricultural market.

 

The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University develops the international side of the models, and the Center for National Food and Agricultural Policy (CNFAP) at the University of Missouri-Columbia develops the U.S. domestic component. Both centers conduct independent as well as joint policy analyses.