Montana State University

Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics

Montana State University
P.O. Box 172920
Bozeman, MT 59717-2920

Tel: (406) 994-3701
Fax: (406) 994-4838
E-mail: agecon@montana.edu
Location: 306 Linfield Hall

Department Head:

Dr. Wendy Stock

Department News

News Archives

DAEE Newsletter -spring 2013

Newsletter Archives

2013

~ New!Gary Brester was quoted in the newspaper article, "A whate of a wheat haul," Billings Gazette, Feb. 21, 2013.

2012

~ Senior Bryan Vadheim of Myles City, MT, double major in economics and chemical engineering, has been selected as a Marshall Scholar and plans to earn a master's degree from the London School of Economics and a master's degree in engineering from Kings College while in the United Kingdom. Bryan is the first MSU student to recieve the honor in the prestigious scholarship's 59-year history.

~ Keri Hayes, extension publications assistant, has won the Pure Gold Award (09/05/2012)

~ Vincent H. Smith was published in the journal for American Enterprise Institute (AEI), "The Grim Reapers of Crop Insurance" (08/24/2012)

~ Vince Smith was published in the journal for American Enterprise Institute (AEI), "Farm Bill expert Vincent Smith on the new House version of the 2012 Farm Bill." (07/11/2012)

~ Vince Smith was interviewed as part of an article in "The Economist" magazine focusing on the Farm Bill. The article is titled "Boondoggle Harves.t" (06/16/2012)

~ The Farmer Mac Board elected Dr. Myles J. Watts as its new Vice Chairman (04/05/2012)

2011

~ Dr. Joe Atwood has won the Pure Gold Award (10/19/2011)

~ Drs. Dominic P. Parker (MSU-DAEE and PERC) and Terry L. Anderson (DAEE emeritus and PERC) have been awarded the Addington Prize in Measurement by Canada's leading public policy think-tank, the Fraser Institute. Their paper, "Sovereignty, Credible Commitments, and Economic Prosperity on American Indian Reservations" measures the crippling economic consequences resulting from the lack of private property rights on Indian reservations.(09/28/2011)

~ Dr. Gary Brester has been selected as a Western Agricultural Economics Association Distinguished Scholar for 2011. (03/2011)

~ Dr. Vincent Smith is the recipient of the 2011 USDA Bruce Gardner Award (02/2011)