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2017 AARES Distinguished Life Member

2017 AARES Distinguished Life Member Bob FarquharsonAssociate Professor Bob Farquharson's career in agricultural economics developed from growing up on farms and concurring with his father's suggestion that this would be an interesting discipline to learn. Bob has studied at the University of New England and the University of California Davis and worked at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (now ABARES), NSW Department of Agriculture/Primary Industries and the University of Melbourne. Bob's career interest has been in the economics of agricultural production and natural resource use, and new technology assessment in farming systems contexts in Australia and developing countries.In his time at the BAE in Canberra (1976–1986), Bob was involved in field survey data collection for the Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey and conducted research using that data. He transferred in 1987 to Grafton at the NSW Agriculture Research and Advisory Station where he worked with other scientists and advisory officers. His work included the evaluations of several beef industry technologies and an assessment of the returns from investment in beef cattle genetics breeding and research for the Australian beef industry. The position also involved presenting at field days, particularly a herd‐level economic evaluation of a large Crossbreeding × Nutrition project. Awarding of an AMLRDC scholarship http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2018 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc.
ISSN
1364-985X
eISSN
1467-8489
DOI
10.1111/1467-8489.12253
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Bob FarquharsonAssociate Professor Bob Farquharson's career in agricultural economics developed from growing up on farms and concurring with his father's suggestion that this would be an interesting discipline to learn. Bob has studied at the University of New England and the University of California Davis and worked at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (now ABARES), NSW Department of Agriculture/Primary Industries and the University of Melbourne. Bob's career interest has been in the economics of agricultural production and natural resource use, and new technology assessment in farming systems contexts in Australia and developing countries.In his time at the BAE in Canberra (1976–1986), Bob was involved in field survey data collection for the Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey and conducted research using that data. He transferred in 1987 to Grafton at the NSW Agriculture Research and Advisory Station where he worked with other scientists and advisory officers. His work included the evaluations of several beef industry technologies and an assessment of the returns from investment in beef cattle genetics breeding and research for the Australian beef industry. The position also involved presenting at field days, particularly a herd‐level economic evaluation of a large Crossbreeding × Nutrition project. Awarding of an AMLRDC scholarship

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The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics – Wiley

Published: Apr 1, 2018

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