Hearing to Review U.S. Agriculture Policy in Advance of the 2012 Farm Bill with Agriculture Economists and Academics

Panel 1

Dr. Bruce Babcock , Director, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, , Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Mr. Neil Hamilton , Professor and Director, Agricultural Law Center, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

Dr. Jean Kinsey , Professor and Director, The Food Industry Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

Dr. Rob Paarlberg , Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Dr. Otto Doering , Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

Panel 2

Dr. Paul Ellinger , Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois

Dr. Daryll Ray , Professor and Director of Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

Dr. Scott Brown , Research Assistant Professor and Program Director for Livestock and Dairy, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri, Co