New board members, immediate past members responsible for continuing educational work

As we end the year, the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) wishes to recognize its board of directors, especially new members, and thank those presenters who shared research for the council’s ongoing programming for legislative offices and agency staff.

This year, C-FARE held webinars spanning trade and farm incomes; Hispanic farm enterprises; food innovations and labeling and local food markets. Its annual Jon Brandt Public Policy Forum this fall in Washington focused on rural prosperity and considered university Extension offices’ efforts, housing in small communities and rural broadband, and the shifting business models (and closure) of rural hospitals.

Its directors provide leadership, governance and oversight of the organization and its programming. C-FARE promotes the work of applied economists and serves as a catalyst for incorporating economics into the analysis of food, agricultural and resource decisions. C-FARE added three professors to its board of directors:

• Duncan M. Chembezi, Alabama A&M University

• Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont

• Barry J. Barnett, University of Kentucky

“In tight budget times, it’s imperative policymakers and other funders understand our value proposition,” Barnett says. “C-FARE ensures that the knowledge generated by agricultural and applied economists is effectively communicated to the broader agricultural policy community.”

C-FARE wishes to thank its veteran board members who rotated off in 2019:

• Cathy Roheim, University of Idaho

• Deacue Fields, University of Arkansas

• Dan Lass, University of Massachusetts

“C-FARE’s board is a volunteer effort which serves an important role in guiding our policy education activities,” says Spiro Stefanou, a University of Florida food and resources economist and board chair of the council.

C-FARE also would like to thank the following professors and researchers without whom the council’s programming would not be as substantive and diverse:

• Nicole Negowetti, Harvard Law School

• Carrie Litkowski, U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service

• John Newton, American Farm Bureau Federation

• Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University

• Ian Sheldon, Ohio State University

• Amanda Countryman, Colorado State University

• Joe Glauber, International Food Policy Research Institute

• Jason Grant, Virginia Tech

• Maria Elba Rodriguez-Alcala, University of Missouri

• Corinne Valdivia, University of Missouri

• Stephen C. Jeanetta, University of Missouri

• Michael Nepveux, American Farm Bureau Federation

• Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University

• Jeff O’Hara, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service

• Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University

• Becca Jablonski, Colorado State University

• Tim Marema of The Daily Yonder

• Joy Moten-Thomas, Fort Valley State University

• Corianne Scally, Urban Institute

• Alison Davis, University of Kentucky

• Roberto Gallardo, Purdue Center for Regional Development

Board members and programming committee leaders Kolodinsky and Sean B. Cash of Tufts University (who along with Negowetti presented a webinar July 26) are currently seeking proposal ideas for 2020.

Joining Stefanou, Chembezi, Kolodinsky, Barnett and Cash are C-FARE’s continuing directors:

• Roger Coupal, University of Wyoming, immediate past chair

• Gal Hochman, Rutgers University

• John Newton, American Farm Bureau Federation

• Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee

• Luis A. Ribera, Texas A&M University

C-FARE is a nonprofit  organization dedicated to strengthening the national presence of the agricultural and applied economics profession. C-FARE has a long history of serving the profession and the nation.

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