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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.
Stew Skinner's letter to the editor of the Guelph Mercury on July 2nd, 2009 -
Professor Roel Jongeneel, University of Wageningen will present "Current Developments in EU Dairy Policy and Its Impacts on the Dutch Dairy Sector", Monday, July 13th at 9:30 a.m. in Room 101 J.D. MacLachlan Bldg. Details attached.
Kenneth Poon's M.Sc. Thesis Defence and Final Examination was held on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 102, J.D. MacLachlan Bldg. The title of his thesis is "Measuring the Compliance Cost of Nutrient Management Regulations on Ontario Dairy Farms".
The Dept. of FARE is pleased to announce the following seminar. Dr. Monica Cojocaru, Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Guelph will present "Objective and Subjective Decision Factors: Modelling Consumer Behavior From Individual to Population Scale" this Thursday, June 18th, 3:30 pm in Room 107, J.D. MacLachlan Building.
Congratulations to the winning team from the FARE*6100 debate this past semester.
Stewart Skinner, Prosper Koto, Prof. Glenn Fox, Tasneem Virani, Shashini Ratnasena, Chatura Pulasinghage
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/.
May 04, 2009
Broke? Get cooking
GLOBE AND MAIL
It's hard to love a recession, John Allemang writes, but bad times can be good for your diet, your health and your pocketbook
The Department of FARE would like to extend a warm welcome to their new Chair, Dr. Alan P. Ker and his family. Dr. Ker started his new position on April 30th, 2009.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Alfons Weersink as Acting Chair for his dedicated service over the past 16 months.