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May 2025, Issue 11

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AAEA News

Announcing the 2025 Elected AAEA Board Members

President-Elect

Titus Awokuse
Michigan State University

Board of Directors

Maria Marshall
Purdue University

William Masters
Tufts University

Thank you to all candidates for running!

View the current AAEA Board here.

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting
Hotel Room Block

Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
1550 Court Place,
Denver, Colorado, USA, 80202
(303) 893-3333

AAEA Group Rate: $229.00
Reservations must be received on
or before Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
 

Please book using the AAEA Group rate here:
https://book.passkey.com/e/50926533

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting Funding Opportunities

  • Special Rate Registration
    The AAEA Annual Meeting is a perennial cornerstone component of the organization. We look forward to another successful meeting July 27-29, 2025 in Denver, CO at the AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting. The typical slate of pre- and post-conference workshops, keynote addresses, concurrent sessions, reunions and much more are scheduled, and will again offer attendees numerous learning and networking opportunities. 

    Core to ongoing successful Annual Meetings is robust attendance and participation of our Members. Meanwhile, some AAEA Members have experienced significant challenges associated with lost employment in calendar year 2025. The AAEA wants to acknowledge this and invites and encourages Members who have lost employment in 2025 to log-in to the AAEA Member Account on the AAEA website and see what support is available to partially assist in their attending this year’s Annual Meeting.
     
  • Childcare & Accessibility Fund
    AAEA is not providing onsite childcare in Denver; however, you may apply for childcare/accessibility funds by filling out this form.  

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting Workshops Preview

Additional details on workshops located on the annual meeting webpage: https://www.aaea.org/meetings/2025-aaea-annual-meeting/events/ticketed-events/pre--and-post-conference-workshops
 

Pre-Conference Workshops     
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Post-Conference Workshops    
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting Ticketed Luncheons

Monday, July 28, 2025                                                                              11:30 am – 1:00 pm 

  • COSBAE, CWAE and Africa Sections Speaker Series and Luncheon
  • Extension Section Speaker Series and Luncheon

2025 AAEA FAMPS Poster Competition

FAMPS proposes to host a poster session at the 2025 Annual Meeting, similar to the one hosted at 2024 meeting.  The objective of the poster session is to provide a forum for researchers with more limited professional networks, like graduate students and beginning faculty, to be recognized for innovative and high-quality research in poster sessions.  These researchers might be less likely to participate in track sessions, and thus attend the annual meeting, than researchers with stronger professionally networks.  This recognition could also be helpful to some researchers at the beginning stages of their career.
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Undergraduate Student Section 2025 Competitions

  1. The Earl O. Heady Decision Sciences Spreadsheet Competition
    The Earl O. Heady Decision Sciences competition is a team-based competition where students show off their Excel skills in a time-limited analytical contest! Each team of up to three students entering the Earl O. Heady Decision Sciences Spreadsheet Competition is required to work together to develop a spreadsheet from a provided dataset and qualitative information, answer questions related to the dataset, and present findings from the case study.
  2. Student Paper Competition
    Undergraduate students have the opportunity to submit their paper to be part of the Student Paper Competition held each year at the AAEA Annual Meeting. Those papers submitted are judged based on the written version and an oral presentation given at the meeting.
  3. Outstanding Paper Competition
    This competition gives chapters of SS-AAEA the chance to be recognized for their hard work over the past year. Each chapter is judged based on the goals/objectives of the chapter, membership recruitment, and the activities of the chapter.
  4. Creative Club Competition
    Those chapters of SS-AAEA that have done something special over the past year can enter into this competition. The chapters will be judged based on their account of a specific idea or project that was implemented.

Registration for the SS-AAEA Competitions is now open. To explore more about each competition, click here.

2025 Academic Bowl Competition

Each year, SS-AAEA sponsors an academic bowl competition for undergraduate students at the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint 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 Academic Bowl Competition will be held on Sunday, July 27 and Monday, July 28 followed by The Finals prior to the Awards Ceremony at the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting.
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GSS & C-FARE 2025 Policy Communications Competition

In today’s market, graduate students may seek careers where they are tasked with evaluating policy issues and effectively communicating their results to policymakers and other stakeholders. Therefore, the Graduate Student Section (GSS) and Council on Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics (C-FARE) partner for the 5th Annual Policy Communications Competition. This competition provides graduate students with an opportunity to gain experience in both written and verbal policy communication. Applications must be submitted electronically no later than midnight CT on May 30, 2025.
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2025 AEM- GSS CASE STUDY COMPETITION

The Agribusiness Economics and Management (AEM) – Graduate Student Section (GSS) Case Study Competition allows graduate students to test their communication skills and their ability to apply their knowledge of agricultural economics and agribusiness to practical situations.

  • Registration form due: Friday, June 13 by 5:00 pm EDT
  • Case sent to team: Friday, July 13 by 5:00 pm EDT
  • Case Study Competition: Sunday, July 27, 8:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT*
  • Case Study Finals: Sunday, July 27, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT*

* Eastern time is used for the competition as the 2025 Annual Meeting will take place in Denver, CO.
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Call for Volunteers: Senior Discussant for Selected Presentations - Paper Sessions

Members wishing to get involved may volunteer for an essential role as a senior-level discussant for Selected Paper Sessions at our 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, July 27-29, 2025.  A discussant will be assigned to a Selected Presentation Paper Session whose topic area correlates with the discussant’s expertise.  The discussant would be tasked with reviewing the papers within their session, provide constructive feedback and stimulate discussion.  The goal is to make these sessions more impactful and meaningful.

Discussants will receive their session assignment and session details in mid to late June. Please click here to volunteer! If you have any questions, please contact the AAEA Business Office at info@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190.
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2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting
Employment Center

The AAEA Employment Center connects employers and applicants both electronically and in person. Details below show the ways that both can participate and make the most of their time at the Employment Center.


Employment Center Hours:
Monday, July 28, 2025
8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Register Here

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Choices Magazine: Article(s) Highlight

Pathways to Prosperity: Moving Beyond Growth to Evaluate Change in Community Well-Being

Danielle Schmidt, Tessa Conroy, and Steven Deller

In this study, we go beyond economic growth to measure quality of life. We find that prosperity is a process that happens over time, varies regionally across the United States, and exists across the urban–rural continuum. Indeed, many of the most prosperous communities are the most rural.

Interested in publishing in Choices? Submit your Individual, Theme, or Data Visualizations here.

Other News

EUI Florence School of Regulation:
Executive Course on the Vision for Agriculture and Food
Ensuring a Sustainable and Competitive Future for EU Agriculture

3-day Online Course
June 25-June 27

This intensive 3-day online course will explore the key strategies behind the Vision, including international trade partnerships, risk management, and regulatory simplification. Participants will engage in discussions on the economic and regulatory challenges, the role of technology in sustainability, and the impact of climate, trade, and bioeconomy policies on the agri-food sector.

Register Now: https://apps.eui.eu/EventRegistration/Home/Login?eventId=578054

Call for Papers
Risk and Risk Management in the Agricultural Economy

November 21, 2025 — Cambridge, MA
To promote research on the risks that are borne by individuals and firms in the agricultural sector, and on the tools that are available to manage these risks, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with the support of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture, will convene a research conference in Cambridge, MA on Friday, November 21, 2025. The conference will be organized by Barry Goodwin (North Carolina State University) and Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois and NBER). 
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