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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
Pages 179-184

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... Curtiss distinguished professor of agriculture and life sciences, a professor of economics, and director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, all at Iowa State University. Kling is undertaking research to examine how agricultural practices affect water quality, wildlife, soil carbon content, and greenhouse gases.
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... Featherstone is the department head and a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, as well as director of the masters in agribusiness program, at Kansas State University. As an agriculture finance scholar, he has studied land markets, investment decisions, mergers in the financial services industry, the probability of agricultural loan default and loan loss severity, the influence of taxes on farmland, and alternative federal tax systems.
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... Ani L Katchova is farm income enhancement chair and associate professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University.
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... He previously served on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Technical Advisory Committee, the USDA's Advisory Committee on Agricultural Statistics and the National Academies' Panel to Review USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey. Opsomer is an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
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... in economics from the University of Chicago. James Wagner is a research associate professor at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center as well as associate director of the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology.
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... Weber's current research focus is on energy, natural resources, and agricultural economics; and he has published more than a dozen articles in journals such as Energy Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, World Development, Land Economics, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. He holds a Ph.D.
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