2024
Gary Schnitkey

Federal Farm Safety Net Programs

Gary Schnitkey

Professor of Farm Management, Soybean Industry Chair in Agricultural Strategy, University of Illinois
2023
Mykel Taylor

Agricultural Land Markets and the Influence of Foriegn Investment

Mykel Taylor

Associate Professor and Alfa Eminent Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University
2022
Nate Kauffman

Macroeconomic Crosswinds in U.S. Agriculture

Nathan Kauffman

Omaha Branch Executive, Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

2021
Shannon Neibergs

Infectious Disease Economics:  The Case of BRD in Cattle

Shannon Neibergs

Professor, Extension Economist, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University and Director of  Western Center for Risk Management Education

2019
Barry Goodwin

Climate Change and Agricultural Yield Risk

Barry Goodwin

Department Head and William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University

2018

Randy Fortenbery

Trade in an Uncertain Political Environment

Randy Fortenbery

Professor and Thomas Mick Endowed Chair, Washington State University

2017

Paul Jakus

Can States Afford a Federal Land Transfer?

Paul Jakus

Professor, Utah State University

2016
Jason Lusk

The Future of Food

Jayson Lusk

Regents Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics,
Oklahoma State University

2015
Colin Carter

Trade & The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

Colin Carter

Director, University of California, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, Professor, University of California Davis

2013

Carl Casale

Cooperatives in the 21st Century

Carl Casale

President and Chief Executive Officer, CHS, Inc.

2011
Michael Gerber

Managing Risk in Volatile Times

Michael Gerber

President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Agriculture Mortgage Company

2010
Wally Tyner

Alternative Policies and Pathways to Our Energy Future

Wally Tyner

James and Lois Ackerman Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

2009
Jon Christianson

Implications of Healthcare Reform for Rural America

Jon Christianson

University of Minnesota
2007
Terry Anderson

Maximizing the Wealth of Nature-From the Treasure State to Big Sky Country

Terry Anderson

Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC)
2006
Scott Rozelle

Demystifying the Mysteries of China:  Towards an Understanding of the Wrenching Changes that are Transforming China and How They Will Affect Montana

Scott Rozelle

University of California-Davis
2005
James Mintert

What's the Beef?  Issues Shaping the Future of the U.S. Beef Industry

James Mintert

Kansas State University
2004
Bruce Gardner

Pathways to Economic Growth and Rural Communities

Bruce Gardner

University of Maryland
2003
David Orden

Exchange Rates in Agriculture:  Do They Matter?

David Orden

Virginia Tech
2002

Joe Glauber

The 2002 Farm Bill:  What Are the Domestic and International Implications?

Joseph Glauber

USDA