- Professors Paul Ferraro of Georgia State University and Kent Messer of the University of Delaware will head the newly created Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Policy Research (CBEAR), supported with a $750,000 award from the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- The annual meeting of the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics will take place in St. Louis and Brentwood, MO, on Dec. 2-3, 2014.
- On Dec. 3, 2014, Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) will hold a public debate on the motion “Genetically Modify Food.”
- Purdue University is positioning itself to be a leader in precision agriculture through unmanned aerial vehicle research and education.