October 20, 2023
13th Kraft Lecture
Dr. Jim Vercammen
Food and Resource Economics in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (jointly appointed with the Sauder School of Business), University of British Columbia
"What can we learn from commodity futures and option prices about pandemics, wars and other frightening things"

February 9, 2022
12th Annual Daryl Kraft Lecture
Dr. Ryan Cardwell
Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba
"Capturing policy: Rent seeking and unintended consequences in food & agricultural policy"

October 22, 2019
11th Annual Daryl Kraft Lecture
Dr. Michele Veeman
Professor Emerita of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology of the University of Alberta
"Trade Policy for Agriculture: How Politics is Trumping Economics"

October 31, 2018
Dr. Ryan Cardwell
 Associate Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba
"The Evolution of Canada's International Food Assistance Policies"

October 24, 2018
10th Annual Daryl Kraft Lecture
Dr. Daniel A. Sumner 
University of California Agricultural Issue Center and, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
"North American Agriculture in an Era of Trade Policy Turmoil:  Reaffirming the value of Open Markets"

October 25, 2017
9th Annual Daryl Kraft Lecture
Dr. Brady Deaton
Professor in Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph and McCain Family Chair in Food Security
"Land and Water: Issues and Approaches in Canada, First Nations and Abroad - Conflict and Cooperation in Natural Resource Use: Institution and Economic Performance”

October 21, 2016
8th Annual Daryl F. Kraft Lecture
Dr. Joseph W. Glauber
 Former Chief Economist, USDA and Chief U.S. Agriculture Negotiator WTO Doha Round
"Whither U.S. Agriculture Trade Policy: Trump, Clinton, BREXIT, WTO, NAFTA and TPP"
 

October 19, 2016
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences Seminar Series
Dr. Derek Brewin
 Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
"The Games Firms Play in the Grain Value Chain" 

October 28, 2015
7th Annual Daryl F. Kraft Lecture
Dr. Colin A. Carter
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis
"China and the Global Food Equation" 

October 29, 2014
6th Daryl F. Kraft Lecture
Dr. Richard Gray
Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics, University of Saskatchewan
"Fostering Productivity on Both Sides of the Farm Gate"

October 15, 2014
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences Seminar Series
Dr. Ryan Cardwell
Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
"Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada's Supply Management Regime"
 

October 30, 2013
5th Daryl F. Kraft Lecture
Dr. William W. Wilson
Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University
"Pressures and Challenges for Improving Technologies in Crops"

April 17, 2013
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences Seminar Series
Dr. Chad Lawley
Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
"Conservation Easements in Agricultural Landscapes: Win-win?"
 

January 19, 2011
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences Seminar Series
Dr. Julieta Frank
Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
"What Drives Agricultural Commodity Prices?"

February 23, 2010
4th Daryl F. Kraft Lecture Series
Dr. Daryll Ray
Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee
"Food Demand and Population Growth: Can Agriculture Keep Up?"
 

February 10, 2010
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences Seminar Series
Dr. Fabio Mattos
Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
"Are Farmers Rational? An Investigation on Risk-Taking Behaviour in Agriculture"

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