Congratulations to the following on awards and honors received at the AAEA annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, July 29-31, 2007:_x000d_
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The Ag Business Club was named the 2007 National Outstanding Chapter and received the 2007 National Creative Club Award._x000d_
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/department/news/newsletter/Files/AgBusinessC...
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Cathy Kling, Jinhua Zhao, and Luba Kurkalova received the CAES Outstanding Journal Article Award for their article, "Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage from Observed Behavior," published in the June 2006 issue of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics._x000d_
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Dermot Hayes was inducted as an AAEA Fellow at the opening event of the meeting. The designation is reserved for those members who have made "continuous contribution to the advancement of agricultural economics," with only a select few chosen each year._x000d_
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Chengyan Yue received honorable mention in the AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award category for her "Three Essays on Food Quality and Transactions Costs."_x000d_
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AAEA poster winners: "Spatial Competition and the Location of the U.S. Ethanol Industry" by Tun-Hsiang (Edward) Yu and Frank Fuller took first place in the poster competition, with design help from Becky Olson. Second place went to a poster titled "Measuring the Impact of Livestock Operations Using a Hedonic Model: What Kind of Distances Matter?" by former graduate student Tao Ran, Jinhua Zhao, and Louisiana State University colleague Huizhen Niu. Third place went to economics graduate student Ofir Rubin for his poster "Assessing the Response of Farm Households to Dairy Policy Reform in Israel." Ariun Ishdorj and Helen Jensen, with coauthor Justin Tobias, had a poster on WIC-approved food consumption that was a finalist.

Reiman Gardens, Ames, Iowa, September 16-17, 2007_x000d_
Registration deadline: September 7_x000d_
http://www.card.iastate.edu/here/

Application deadline: September 17, 2007_x000d_
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/pages/eie/homepage.html