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April 2024 Issue 7

AAEA Deadlines    

May 3, 2024

  • Volunteers for AAEA Committees

May 15, 2024

  • #AAEA2024 Presenter Requirements Deadline

May 22, 2024

  • Submission for 2025 ASSA Deadline

May 24, 2024

  • Travel Grant Applications - Domestic
  • Travel Grant Applications - International

May 31, 2024

  • Early Bird Registration Deadline (Not open yet)

June 27, 2024

  • AAEA AM24 Room Block Closes

June 30, 2024

  • AETR Special Issue on AI
  • AETR Special Issue on Agribusiness

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AAEA News

President-Elect Seeks Volunteers for AAEA Committees

Members interested in shaping the future of the AAEA can play an essential role by serving on an association committee. Committee service also offers an excellent opportunity for developing contacts and increasing professional networking.

Beatty will make appointments to the following 2024-2025 committees in June 2024:

  • AAEA Trust
  • Awards
  • Case Study Invited Paper
  • Communications
  • Employment Services
  • Fellows Selection
  • Finance
  • Galbraith Forum and Award
  • Membership
  • Mentoring
  • Nominating
  • Selected Presentations
  • T.W. Schultz Lecture

For information about these committees and a list of their current members, please visit http://www.aaea.org/about-aaea/aaea-committees.

Any AAEA member interested and willing to serve on a committee should contact Kristen McGuire at kmcguire@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190 by May 3, 2024.

2024 AAEA Accept/Reject Notifications

Notifications for the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting were sent on March 26. Please check your email (and spam/junk folders) or log into the abstract management system to view your standing.

Presenter Requirements by May 15, 2024
In order to participate in the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting, presenters MUST meet three requirements:

  1. Be a 2024 AAEA member
  2. Register for the 2024 annual meeting
  3. Upload PDF of finished paper (or poster if presenting a poster) to AAEA submission site using these instructions.

**If your institution will be registering you for the Annual Meeting or renewing your membership it is your responsibility to ensure that they have done so prior to the May 15 deadline.

Presentations are subject to withdrawal from the program if requirements are not completed by May 15 at 11:59 pm CST.  If you would like to withdraw your paper, you must notify the AAEA business office of your intentions at (414) 918-3190 or info@aaea.org

2024 Annual Meeting Information

Preliminary Schedule

Sunday, July 28
  • Various Times
  • Various Times
  • 9:30 am -5:00 pm
  • 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Immediately following Gordon Rausser Keynote Address
  • 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Monday, July 29
  • 8:00 am - 8:30 am
  • 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
  • 8:30 am - 9:30 am
  • 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
  • 10:00 am - 11:30 am
  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  • 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
  • 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
  • 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
  • 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  • 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
     
  • 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Tuesday, July 30
  • 8:30 am - 9:30 am
  • 10:00 am - 11:30 am
  • 11:45 am - 12:45 pm (**NEW TIME**)
  • 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
  • 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
  • 4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
 

The 2024 AAEA Room Block is OPEN
New Orleans Marriott
555 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 581-1000

Guest Rooms for Single/Double $179 per room per night
Taxes are a total of 16.2% (9.45% State Tax, 5% Federal Tax, and 1.75% Tourism Tax) plus a $3 per night occupancy fee.

Please reserve your room using the following link:https://book.passkey.com/e/50476455

Cut-off Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024 or when sold out.

2024 Registration Rates

You may register for a Pre- and Post-conference Workshop while registering for the annual meeting or by calling the AAEA Business Office at (414) 918-3190.

  Early Bird
(on or before May 31)
Advanced
(June 1-July 18)
On-site
(July 19 and after)
Member Non-member Member Non-member Member Non-member
Graduate Student $105 $300 $140 $335 $180 $380
Professional $475 $650 $560 $720 $635 $795
Senior $365 $505 $450 $580 $525 $655
Guest $75 $75 $75

*Guests include any interested party not professionally in or a student of the fields of agricultural or applied economics, or a related discipline. Guest fees include the welcome reception, plenary sessions, and all concurrent sessions (Guests under the age of 16 are free, and don’t need to register).

*Cancellation: Cancellations of meeting registrations are subject to a $50 processing fee. After July 5, no refunds will be given for meeting registrations or special event tickets. To cancel your Annual Meeting registration and/or special event tickets, contact the AAEA Business Office at (414) 918-3190 or info@aaea.org. Website: www.aaea.org. If AAEA cancels the meeting any paid meeting registration fees will be fully refunded.

Accepted Presenters must register for the Annual Meeting by May 15, 2024

2024 AAEA Annual Meeting Open Calls

May 24, 2024

Preview of AAEA 2024 Annual Meeting Workshops & Luncheons

Pre-registration for Pre- and Post-conference Workshops and Luncheons are required before the annual meeting. You may register for a Pre- and Post-conference Workshop while registering for the annual meeting or by calling the AAEA Business Office at (414) 918-3190.

Pre-Conference Workshops    
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Post-Conference Workshops
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Speaker Luncheons Preview

Luncheons are a ticketed event and will occur on Monday, July 29th. Additional details available here

  • Extension Section Lecture & Luncheon (SP31)
  • COSBAE Speaker Series & Luncheon (SP32)

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Announcing 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting – Invited Paper Sessions

  • Innovations in Characterizing Rural Economic Activity
    Session #3757
  • New Developments in Assessing Global Food Security
    Session #3758
  • Leveraging multiple-data sources and methods to better inform food policies and market strategies
    Session #3759
  • When Efficiency Matters: Incentivizing Right Agent, Right Behavior, and Right Compensation to Improve Conservation Outcomes
    Session #3790
  • Burning Issues in Agricultural Trade Policy
    Session #3798

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Announcing 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting – Organized Symposia Sessions

  • Challenges and Solutions in Measuring Household Food Loss and Waste for Use in Policy Analysis
    Session #3765
  • Reflecting on Key Dimensions of the Interdisciplinary Research Process
    Session #3767
  • Teaching new and existing courses for students from other fields
    Session #3777
  • Learning about various transitioning opportunities from the academic to the professional environment
    Session #3780
  • Tales from the Dark Side: Insights for Ag and Applied Economists from Administrators
    Session #3781
  • Applying for USDA-NIFA Funding for the Area of Agricultural Economics and Rural Communities
    Session #3782
  • Best Practices for Furthering Innovation and Capturing the Benefits of the Bioeconomy
    Session #3783
  • Overcoming Challenges and Constraints to Growth in Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, and Related Programs at 1890 Land-grant Institutions
    Session #3784
  • Examination of Agricultural Labor Policy Options
    Session #3785
  • The State of Academic Profession of Agricultural & Applied Economics
    Session #3789
  • Strategies for Health & Wellbeing in Agricultural Economics
    Session #3795

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Announcing the 2024 Extension Competition for Graduate Students at the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting

The AAEA Extension Competition for Graduate Students provides an opportunity to develop and/or get feedback on programs that communicate research and practical information to Extension (usually non-economist) audiences.  Entries can be based upon graduate student research for a thesis, dissertation, or other academic work. The competition is sponsored by the Extension and Graduate Student Sections.
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Undergraduate Student Section 2024 Competitions

  • The Earl O. Heady Decision Sciences Spreadsheet Competition
  • Student Paper Competition
  • Outstanding Paper Competition
  • Creative Club Competition

Read more about each competition here: https://www.aaea.org/membership/sections/ss-aaea/aaea-annual-meeting

Register for the 2024 Academic Bowl

Each year, SS-AAEA sponsors an academic bowl competition for undergraduate students at the AAEA Annual Meeting. Students compete on teams of three, which are affiliated with their school. The finals of the competition are held immediately preceding the AAEA Awards Ceremony, with an audience of all meeting attendees. The winning team receives $500.

The Academic Bowl Competition will be held on Monday, July 29 at 8:00 am – 2:00 pm followed by The Finals at 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm prior to the Awards Ceremony at the 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting.
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Nominations Call: HES Best Publication of 2023 Award

Nominations are now open for our Health Economics Section Best Publication of 2023 Award.

We invite you to nominate a paper for this award. Self-nominations and nominations of others’ papers will be accepted.

Please submit the nomination to Bhagyashree Katare, bkatare@purdue.edu, by March 31, 2024.
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Call for submissions: AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2025 ASSA Annual Meeting

President-Elect Tim Beatty is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2025 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, January 3-5, 2025.

The objective of AAEA sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting is to share new knowledge of interest to economists. The AAEA encourages sessions that will draw widely from ASSA attendees, including sessions jointly sponsored with other ASSA member associations.
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Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Use in the Classroom and Academy

Deadline: June 30, 2024
Applied Economics and Teaching Resources is calling for manuscripts about use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in undergraduate and graduate education in the classroom and across the academy. Submissions of case studies, teaching and extension scholarship and research, educational innovations and methods, extension education innovations and methods, and commentaries about use of artificial intelligence, including use of large language models (LLMs) and platforms, such as ChatGPT, Bing AI, Bard, amongst other, and data analytics in undergraduate and graduate education, extension education, and other learning venues in institutions of higher learning. This special issue is open to a wide array of topics related to artificial intelligence and data analytics across the agricultural and applied economics and agribusiness and management economics disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to innovative use of AI and data analytics in the classroom; innovative data analytic teaching modules and teaching case studies; teaching case studies about the impact of AI on agriculture, the agricultural industry and society; ethical and academic concerning the use of AI in the academy; assessments of AI for different learning outcomes and tasks; and use of AI and data analytics in extension education programming.
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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Designing Agribusiness Education for Changing Student Demographics and Employer Needs

Deadline: June 30, 2024
Applied Economics and Teaching Resources is calling for manuscripts related to agribusiness education and curriculum. Agribusiness programs are simultaneously grappling with changing student demographics and evolving employer needs. Continued consolidation across all agricultural sectors means that fewer students are growing up on farms and ranches than in previous generations. Additionally, automation and technological change are rapidly transforming agricultural supply chains.  This change has contributed to a growing gap between the skills and knowledge sets that agribusiness programs prioritize and what employers within the food supply chain value (Johnson, Downey, and Holcomb, 2023). Agribusiness programs must both broaden their appeal to students without an agricultural background and adapt curriculum to ensure students are given the tools they need to thrive after graduation. Programs that achieve these objectives will help empower the next generation of problem solvers to grapple with increasingly intricate challenges within the food value chain. Departments that cannot meet these objectives may experience decreased enrollment and struggle to place graduates.
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Government Relations & Washington Update

April 2024

President Biden Releases FY 2025 Budget
On March 11th, President Biden released his FY 2025 Budget Request, kicking off the budget and appropriations process for the next fiscal year. The Office of Science and Technology Policy has outlined the research investments proposed in the budget across multiple federal agencies. The Budget includes $202 billion for federal research and development (R&D) to address a variety of priorities including:  promoting robust health and ample opportunity for each person in every community, addressing the climate crisis, sustaining global security and stability, and realizing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) while managing its risks. The Budget would invest $99 billion in basic and applied research that will drive the development of future cutting-edge technologies, products, and services. It also invests in transformative approaches to harness innovation in health and energy, like the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
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Other News

NBER Conference on Competition in the US Agricultural Sector

To promote research on competition in the agricultural sector and the consequences of the industrial organization of this sector for consumers as well as input suppliers, the National Bureau of Economic Research, with support from the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture, will convene a research conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 12, 2024. The conference will be organized by James MacDonald (University of Maryland) and Fiona Scott Morton (Yale University and NBER).

More details on the conference may be found at this link: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/competition-us-agricultural-sector. The deadline for submissions is September 3, 2024, and submissions should be of complete, or nearly complete, papers.

VIII Beeronomics Conference

The 2024 Beeronomics Conference will take place at University of Milan Bicocca, Italy, 19-22 June. Main panels and sessions will be held at the University of Bicocca main campus located in the heart of the city. The Conference Organising Committee, led by Christian Garavaglia, welcomes all high-quality research on the economics of beer and brewing.

Please find the official Conference Flyer/Call for Paper attached. Additional information about abstract submission and event details can be found on the conference's webpage: https://beeronomics2024.unimib.it/
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