Quoc Viet Luong, Cornell University
“Investment in Coffee Planting in Vietnam—A Real Option Analysis and Policy Recommendations”
Loren Tauer, Advisor

Kelly M. Cobourn, University of Maine
“Environmental Conservation on Agricultural Working Land: Assessing Policy Alternatives using a Spatially Heterogeneous Land Allocation Model”
Timothy J. Dalton, Advisor

Jason Bergtold, Virginia Tech
“Advances in Applied Econometrics: Binary Discrete Choice Models, Artificial Neural Networks, and Asymmetries in the FAST Multistage Demand System”
Daniel Taylor and Aris Spanos, Advisors

Shinn-Shyr Wang, University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Strategic Behavior under Asset Value Maximization—An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Retail Margarine and Butter Markets”
Kyle Stiegert, Advisor

Tian Xia, University of California at Davis
“Cattle, Contracts, and Grocery Retailers: Three Essays on Industrial Organization in Agricultural Markets”
Richard Sexton, Advisor

Honorable Mention
Ahmet Tolga Ergun, University of Arizona
“Essays on Nonparametric and Applied Econometrics”
Alan Ker, Advisor

Daniel Gilligan, University of Maryland
“The Economics of Agricultural Labor Exchange with Evidence for Indonesia”
Ramon Lopez, Advisor

Less than 10 Years’ Experience
Lisa House, University of Florida
 
Undergraduate, More than 10 Years’ Experience
Paul Wilson, University of Arizona

Graduate, More Than 10 Years’ Experience
James Richardson, Texas A&M University

Individual - Less than 10 Years’ Experience
Nicolas Piggott, North Carolina State University

Individual – More than 10 Years’ Experience
Stephen Amosson, Texas A&M University

Distinguished Extension Program - Group
Terry Hanson, John Anderson and James Avery, Mississippi State University, members of the “Trade Adjustment Assistance Training for Catfish Producers” team

Terri Raney, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
“Part I: Agricultural Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor?”
The State of Food and Agriculture, 2003-04, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, 2004

Honorable Mention
M. Ataman Aksoy, World Bank, and John C. Beghin, Iowa State University, editors
“Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries”
World Bank, Washington, DC, 2005

Scott Rozelle, University of California at Davis and Johan F.M. Swinnen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the World Bank
“Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture”
Journal of Economic Literature, XLII (June 2004): 404-456

Jeffrey M. Peterson, Kansas State University, and Richard N. Boisvert, Cornell University
“Incentive-Compatible Pollution Control Policies Under Asymmetric Information on Both Risk Preferences and
Technology”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(2): (May 2004): 291-306

Steven T. Buccola, Oregon State University, and Yin Xia, University of Missouri at Columbia
“The Rate of Progress in Agricultural Biotechnology”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(1):3-18

Honorable Mention
Darren Hudson, Mississippi State University, and Jason Lusk, Purdue University
“What You Don’t Know Can Cost You: A Web-based Experiment in Price Discrimination”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(3):392- 403

Stephanie Mercier, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, United States Senate
“The WTO and US Agricultural Policy: Intersections and Consequences”
Choices (Fourth Quarter, 2004)

Honorable Mention
Parke Wilde, Tufts University
“Message Under Revision: USDA Speaks About Beef, Pork, Cheese, and Obesity”
Choices (Third Quarter, 2004)

Gershon Feder, World Bank, Richard Just, University of Maryland, and David Zilberman, University of California at Berkeley
“Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey”
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 33(1985): 255- 298

Gershon Feder
Ray A. Goldberg
Peter Hazell
Robert Innes
Bruce A. McCarl
Susan Offutt

1st Place
To Nguyen and Richard Woodward, Texas A&M University; Mindy Selman, World Resources Institute; Marty Matlock, University of Arkansas, "NutrientNet.edu: Teaching Market- based Policy for Water Quality Management"

2nd Place
Silvia Secchi, Manoj Jha, Lyubov Kurkalova, Catherine Kling, Hongli Feng, Phil Gassman and Todd Campbell, Iowa State University, "Linking the Economic Costs and Water Quality Benefits of Conservation in Agricultural Lands: An Iowa Assessment"

3rd Place
Darius Lewis and Jeffrey Gillespie, Louisiana State University, "Processor Adoption of a Potential Crawfish Peeling Machine"

First Place
Michelle Mullins and Hilary Dorr, University of Missouri

Second Place
Purdue University

Third Place
Oklahoma State University

First Place
André Asselin, University of Alberta

Second Place
Amanda Neall, University of Alberta

Third Place
Carmen Albright, University of Arkansas

First Place
University of Florida

Second Place
Texas Tech University

Third Place
Iowa State University

University of Idaho