Announcements

I am pleased to announce that Jessica Kelly has joined the ministry as the Direct Farm Marketing Program Lead effective March 3, 2014.

Jessica is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University.  While at Ivey, Jessica was a case writer and teaching assistant.  She also did a business internship in Tanzania. After graduation, Jessica was a business lecturer at Ivey until 2012.

Faculty from the Dept. of FARE gave talks at the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference -

John Cranfield, "Whither Local Food: How Context Matters in the Local Food Discussion"

Brady Deaton, "Farmland Value, Farmland Ownership, Farm Policy: Facts, Implications, and Future Considerations"

Spencer Henson, "The Evolving Governance of Food Safety – Implications for Government, Business and Consumers"

I spent the second weekend in January of 2014 in Toronto, teaching a course on Austrian economics.  This course was organized by the Institute for Liberal Studies (www.liberalstudies.ca) and funded by a grant from the Hecht Family Foundation (www.hecht.org).  Undergraduate students, 18 in all, from across Canada, participated.  They came from programs in economics, finance, business, history, chemistry, development studies, agriculture, engineering, political science and information technology.  The

Andreas Boecker, Associate Professor with the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, commented on the outcome of referenda on labelling foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) in two federal states, California and Washington.

Andreas Boecker, Associate Professor with the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, was interviewed by TVO’s Steve Paikin on Monday night about the announcement by Heinz to close the iconic Leamington plant next June.

Alan Ker, Chair, Dept. of FARE has been chosen to deliver the Convocation Address to Graduate Students graduating from all colleges of the University of Guelph.

Alan Ker presented a Havlicek Memorial seminar at The Ohio State University on September 9th -

http://aede.osu.edu/about-us/events/technological-change-crop-yields