
2025 Track Sessions
- Engaging Students in Extension Opportunities (Joint with TLC)
- Trends in Agriculture: Livestock, Crops, and Policy (Joint with AFM)
- Lessons Learned from Organizing Extension & Outreach Conferences (Joint with EXT)
- Framing Regional Food System Market Dynamics and Technical Assistance Needs (Joint with CRENET)
- Leveraging State Farm Income Estimates to Inform Farm Policy
- The Realities of a Modern Extension Appointment: What You Need to Know (Joint with GSS)
- Washington Policy Outlook
2024 Track Sessions
- Washington Policy Outlook
- Cover Crops and Carbon - What' money got to do with it?
- Carbon credits....untapped potential or overhyped solution?
- Trends in Local and Regional Food Systems (Joint with FAMPS)
- GSS-EXT Competition Winners (Joint with GSS)
- Agricultural market outlook and global information shocks (Joint with AFM)
- Increasing Access to USDA Risk Management Programs by Underserved Producers (Joint with ARA)
- Communicating Research to Non-Academic Audiences (Joint with CHAIRS)
2023 Track Sessions
- Farm Financial Outlook
- Rural Broadband: Availability, Speed, and Heterogeneous Impacts
- Demystifying the WASDE Outlook Process
- Farmland Price-Rent Surveys: Observations and Opportunities for Research-Based Outreach
- Using Simulation Models in Farm Decision Making
- Washington Policy Outlook
- EXT-GSS Extension Competition Winners
- Competitiveness in Seasonal and Perishable Produce Markets
- Lessons learned in establishing new specialty crop markets
2022 Track Sessions
- Agricultural risk management in the present and the future: Industry Perspectives, Joint with ARA
- Collaborating for Food System Resiliency, Joint with AEM
- Do Farmers and Communities Really Win from Farm to School Programs?, Joint with FAMPS, SS
- EXT-GSS Extension Competition Winners , Joint with GSS
- Issues and Challenges with the Beef Supply Chain,
- Regional Rural Development Centers 50th Anniversary: The Past, Present, and Future of Building Rural Communities through Collaboration, Joint with CRENET
- Successful grantsmanship: integrating economics into interdisciplinary grant applications, Joint with SCE
- Washington Policy Outlook,
- Web-based Decision Tools for Conservation and Financial Management ,
2021 Track Sessions
- Consumer Market Responses and Values in the Covid-Era “Implications for Produce Supply Chains"
- Crop Insurance: Balancing long and short run program concerns, Joint with ARA
- Determinants of Beginning Farmer Profitability and Success, Joint with AFM
- Farm Financial Outlook, Joint with AFM
- Finding Our Slice of PIE:Where Does Public Issues Education Fit in Extension Today?, Joint with CRENET
- Graduate Student Extension Competition Presentations, Joint with GSS
- Management experience and ownership factors influencing family farm entrepreneurial efforts, Joint with AEM
- National Perspective of Critical Factors for Success and Risk Mitigation in Farms with Direct Sales and Agritouris, Joint with CRENET
- Preparing Students and Extension Professionals to Address the Tough Issues,
- Washington Policy Outlook
2018 Track Sessions
- Outlook for Livestock, Poultry and Dairy: Ongoing and Emerging Issues (Joint with COSBAE)
- Washington Policy Outlook
- Extension Section Lecture & Luncheon
- Ongoing and Emerging Land Use Trade-offs Impacting Crop Outlook
- Land Grant Universities and Rural Development: Are We Using All the Tools in Our Toolboxes? (Joint with CRENET)
- "Institutional Alertness” in Research, Teaching and Extension: In memory of A. Allan Schmid and David Schweikhardt (Joint with IBES)
- Tax Policy and Agriculture (Joint with AFM)
- Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners (Joint with GSS)
- Communicating Economics to Non-Economists Including Policy-makers, Non-governmental Organizations, and Media Organizations (Joint with GSS and C-FARE)
- Farm Financial Performance and Investment
2017 Track Sessions
- Washington Policy Update
- Crop and Livestock Outlook
- Extension's Response to Farm Financial Stress
- Current Financial Conditions of Midwestern Farms
- Risk Management Programs and the Next Farm Bill (Joint with ARA)
- Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners (Joint with GSS)
- A Toolbox for Early-Career and Future Extension Educators (Joint with GSS)
- Rural entrepreneurship in times of change (Joint with CRENET)
2016 Track Sessions
- Washington Policy Update
- Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners (Joint with GSS)
- Not Your Grandparents' Farm Bill (or Does the U.S. Farm Bill Still Matter?) (Joint with Senior)
- Building Management Capacity for American Indian Agricultural Businesses
- Extension Educational Efforts and the 2014 Farm Bill
- Extension Section Crops Outlook
- Extension Section Livestock Outlook
2015 Track Sessions
- Washington Policy Update by Chief Economists from the House and Senate Ag Committees
- Nexus of the Local Food System, Small Farm Agriculture and the New Farm Legislation (Joint with COSBAE)
- Protecting Agricultural Operations in Today's Legal Environment
- The Implications of "Big Ag Data"Â for Agricultural Risk/Farm Management (Joint with Senior)
- Extension Section Livestock Outlook
- Crops Outlook
- Prospects for GMOs and GMO Labeling (Joint with Senior)
- Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners (Joint with GSS)
2014 Track Sessions
- Washington Policy Update by Chief Economists from the House and Senate Ag Committees
- Hydraulic Fracturing of Tight Formations to Produce Oil and Gas Creates New Competition for Resources: Balancing the Interests of Production Companies with Those of Agricultural and Other Resource Users
- Crop Insurance and Implementation of the Farm Bill
- Livestock Outlook
- Three Case Studies on Innovative Risk Management Extension Programing (Joint with ARA)
- Farm Program and Insurance Choices: A Real Time Risk Decision Aid (Joint with ARA)
- Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners (Joint with GSS)
- Crop Outlook
2013 Track Sessions
- Washington Policy Update from Economist from the House and Senate Agriculture Committees
- Grain Outlook
- Economic Implications and Policy Responses to Climate Change (Joint with Senior Section)
- Livestock Outlook and Industry Issues
- Peer Advisory Groups for Agricultural Producers
- Risk Modeling for Extension Economists







