SURVIVING THE FIRST YEAR IN EXTENSION AGRIBUSINESS: WHAT AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS PH.D.S DON'T PREPARE US FOR

Darrell R. Mark

No 16597, 2003: WCC-72 Annual Meeting, June 9-11, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada from WERA-72 (formerly WCC-72): Western Education\Extension and Research Activities Committee on Agribusiness

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to contribute to an increasingly important dialogue about the differences between agricultural economics and agribusiness and how graduate degrees in agricultural economics prepare faculty for agribusiness positions. The paper focuses on the need for applied agribusiness management training in agricultural economics graduate programs, the challenges that new faculty with agribusiness extension appointments face, and balancing extension, research, and teaching responsibilities. Suggestions are offered for providing formal training in extension/outreach functions during graduate school through coursework or apprenticeships. The opportunities and difficulties associated with building a new agribusiness extension program are also discussed.

Keywords: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2003
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/16597/files/cp03ma01.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:wccstt:16597

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.16597

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2003: WCC-72 Annual Meeting, June 9-11, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada from WERA-72 (formerly WCC-72): Western Education\Extension and Research Activities Committee on Agribusiness Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().