SERGIO H. LENCE: Service to Professional Organizations

· Associate Editor, Journal of Futures Markets, January 2002 through December 2005.

· Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, January 2000 through December 2003.

· Organizer (jointly with A. K. Mishra), Session “Agricultural Land Values, Government Payments, and Production” at the Allied Social Sciences Meeting held in Washington, D.C., January 3-5, 2003.

· Organizer, Symposium “Financial Risks under Freedom to Farm” at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Agricultural Economics held in Nashville, TN, August 8-11, 1999.

· Topic Leader in the area of Agricultural Finance, Selected Papers Committee for the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Agricultural Economics held in Salt Lake City, UT, August 2-5, 1998.

· Chair, 1998/99, Regional Committee NC-221 on Financing Agriculture and Rural America: Issues of Policy, Structure and Technical Change. NC-221 is a major national/international project involving 15 U.S. universities, one Canadian university, two Federal Reserve Banks, the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and the USDA.

· Vice-chair, 1997/98, Regional Committee NCT-173 on Financing Agriculture and Rural America: Issues of Policy, Structure and Technical Change. (Note: NCT-173 was superseded by NC-221.)

· Secretary, 1996/97, NC-207 Regional Committee on Regulatory, Efficiency, and Management Issues Affecting Rural Financial Markets. (Note: NC-207 was superseded by NCT-173.)