Agricultural economists of the United States, who built the discipline in the land-grant universities and the federal government, studying farm management, farm policy, rural land and the economics of agricultural production. Many held posts at state colleges and the Department of Agriculture. A person belongs here when their cited article names them as an American agricultural economist. Their research fed directly into farm programs, price support debates and the advice that extension services gave to farmers across the country.
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Theodore Schultz (Wikipedia)
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Theodore William Schultz ( SHUULTS; 30 April 1902-26 February 1998) was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics.
Henry Charles Taylor, Wikipedia
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Henry Charles Taylor (April 16, 1873, April 28, 1969) was an American agricultural economist.
Wikipedia: John F. Timmons
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John Francis Timmons (29 October 1912-13 April 1999) was an American agricultural economist.
Lewis Cecil Gray (Wikipedia)
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Lewis Cecil Gray (December 2, 1881, November 18, 1952) was an American agricultural economist.
Wikipedia: Chuck Benbrook
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Charles M. "Chuck" Benbrook is an American agricultural economist, pesticide litigation consultant and former adjunct professor with the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University.
Gail Cramer (Wikipedia)
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Gail Cramer is an American agricultural economist and academic.
Harold D. Guither (Wikipedia)
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Harold Daniel Guither (June 16, 1927, September 13, 2024) was an American agricultural economist and writer.
D. Gale Johnson (Wikipedia)
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David Gale Johnson (July 10, 1916, April 13, 2003) was an American economist and an expert on Russia and China.
David Zilberman (Wikipedia)
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David Zilberman (Hebrew: דוד זילברמן; born May 9, 1947) is an Israeli-American agricultural economist, professor and Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter E. Hildebrand (Wikipedia)
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Hildebrand earned his PhD from Michigan State University in 1959 in Agricultural Economics.
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