The task force, which included farmers, a feedlot operator and an agricultural economics professor, held hearings across the province last winter and spring.

The following summer he got a job writing software programs for the agricultural economics department.

However, as he later noted there was nothing in the budget to provide for his area of interest, agricultural economics.

At the graduate level, many agricultural economics programs focus on a wide variety of applied micro- and macro-economic topics.

From its initial interest in agribusiness, agricultural economics, and natural resource economics, the faculty has broadened to include economics, finance, accounting and business management.