Faculty Focus
Renkow Releases Study on Jobs in NC
This analysis examines changes in employment within the context of population changes in North Carolina.
CALS Faculty and Staff Receive Awards in Excellence and Teaching
Congrats to ARE's Dr. Julianne Treme, who has just been awarded the Teacher Award of Merit for her outstanding classroom and online teaching.
AG Law Class Certified in Quality
Coit: “I am honored to have been a part of DELTA’s pilot Online Course Improvement Program and to have the first known course at NC State that is Quality Matters certified.”
Goodwin Co-Authors “Agricultural Policy in Disarray: Reforming the US Farm Bill”
The 2018 Farm Bill, if passed, will set US farm policy for the next 5 years and cost some US $87 billion annually. Some of this spending will go toward the US farm safety net, which includes price and income support programs, conservation programs, and crop insurance.
NCCE Conference 2018: Worskshop for Farm Business Economics
Agricultural and Resource Economics area experts gave a presentation on business economics on November 14th, 2018 at the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Conference.
ARE Actively Involved in AgBioFEWS
AgBioFEWS is a National Science Foundation funded graduate research training program offering PhD candidates across multidisciplinary fields of study the opportunity to examine the science, policy, and public engagement aspects and impacts of Agricultural Biotechnology on Food, Energy, and Water. ARE's Zach Brown is co-PI.
Boys to Lead Grant on Insurance as a Tool for Food Safety & Risk Management
A new initiative lead by ARE faculty will explore the use of insurance as a tool for food safety risk management.
Collective Management of Shared Water Resource is Easier Said than Done
"History shows how daunting it is to get a group of people to agree on how to manage a common-pool resource like groundwater," says CEnREP affiliate Eric Edwards, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State.
ARE Extension Faculty Participate in “Sorghum Exposure and Utilization” Program
Agricultural and Resource Economics faculty Nick Piggott, Heidi Schweizer and Kathryn Boys presented on feed grain production, transportation to export positions, and international trade of sorghum respectively.
Introducing AgBioFEWS
ARE's Zach Brown is a co-PI on an NSF NRT grant that created the Agricultural Biotechnology in Our Evolving Food, Energy and Water Systems program.