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Graduate Student Research Topics

 

This page is devoted to student research in the area of organics. During the last several years, there have been two Agricultural Economics graduate students and one Plant Science student working on organic related M.Sc. theses. All three students have now completed their theses. Abstracts and theses for each student are available by clicking on the links below.

Department of Agricultural Economics:

1) Shon Ferguson – The Economics of Vertical Co-ordination in the Organic Wheat Supply Chain

2) Erin Sawyer – The Economics of Harmonizing Organic Standards Internationally

Department of Plant Science

3) Yvonne Lawley – Annual green manure seeding rate study under both weedy and weed-free conditions