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Agricultural Economics (AG EC)

AG EC 201 (CED 201) Introductory Environmental and Resource Economics (3) Apply principles of economics to analyze environmental protection policies and natural resource use decisions. Examine contemporary policy issues.
Effective: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: AG BM 101 orECON 002  

AG EC 208 Farm Records and Accounts (3) Practice in keeping, analyzing, interpreting records; systems of accounts to meet needs of individual farm situations.
Effective: Winter 1981 Ending: Fall 2009
 

AG EC 232 Marketing Dairy Products (3) Economics of marketing dairy products; factors affecting price, production, and utilization of milk; role of cooperatives; price plans and policies.
Effective: Summer 1984 Ending: Fall 2009
 

AG EC 296 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Fall 1983 Ending: Summer 2010
 

AG EC 306 Agricultural Finance (3) Agricultural finance in farm firms and financial institutions, emphasizing financial analysis, liquidity, and risk.
Effective: Summer 1984 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: 6 credits in agricultural economics or economics  

AG EC 307 Introduction to Agricultural Economic Analysis (3) Application of production theory to agricultural problems, risk and uncertainty, interregional competition, economies of size, supply and demand relationships.
Effective: Spring 1985 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: AG EC 101 orECON 002  

AG EC 350 International Agricultural Trade (3) The economics of international agricultural trade, agricultural trade policy.
Effective: Summer 1991 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: AG EC 101 orECON 002  

AG EC 404 (CED 404) Methods in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (3) Empirical research methodology in the areas of environmental and natural resource economics.
Effective: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: AG EC 201 orECON 302, ECON 428  

AG EC 410 Agricultural Real Estate Appraisal (3) Factors affecting value of agricultural real property; methods and processes of agricultural real estate appraisal.
Effective: Winter 1978 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: 6 credits in agricultural economics or economics  

AG EC 429 (E RRE 429) Natural Resource Economics (3) Optimal management of resources; roles of markets and other institutions; resources and economic development; public policy.
Effective: Summer 2002
Prerequisite: ECON 302  

AG EC 430 (CEDEV 430) Principles of Community Economic Development (3) Concepts, strategies and techniques of local economic analysis, planning and development; case studies and decision-making exercises.
Effective: Spring 2004
Prerequisite: introductory course in economics  

AG EC 431W (E RRE 431W) Economic Analysis of Environmental and Resource Policies (3) Economic Analysis of environmental and natural resource policies, benefit-cost analysis, non-market valuation techniques, resource damage assessment.
Effective: Spring 2003
Prerequisite: ECON 302  

AG EC 432 (CEDEV 432) Techniques of Community Economic Development Planning (3) Techniques of financial and organizational analysis applied to actual community economic development problems; utilization of innovative economic development strategies and methods.
Effective: Spring 2001
Prerequisite: AG EC 430  

AG EC 450 (IL) International Development, Renewable Resources, and the Environment (3) Theories of agricultural and economic development, with particular attention to interactions between development, renewable resources, and the environment.
Effective: Summer 2005
Prerequisite: 6 credits in agricultural economics or economics  

AG EC 490 Seminar in Agricultural Business Management (3) Contemporary issues in agricultural business management.
Effective: Summer 1991 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: AG BM 200  

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