Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
August 29-30, 2005
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Mike Duffy
Mike Duffy is the Associate Director for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, and works as an Extension Economist in farm management. He also is the Professor-in-Charge of the Iowa State Beginning Farmer Center.
Currently, Duffy is responsible for the annual land value survey, cost of crop production estimates, Iowa farm costs and returns publication and he is state leader for the Extension Farm Financial Planning Program. His research activities include determinants of farm profitability, small farms, soil conservation, integrated pest management, and sustainable agriculture.
Duffy received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Penn State in 1981. He received a B.S. in Natural Resources from University of Nebraska in 1975 and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Nebraska in 1977. He joined the staff at Iowa State as an Extension area farm management specialist in 1984 and moved to his present position on campus in 1985. Prior to joining Iowa State, he worked as an economic researcher for the USDA in Washington, D.C.
Duffy is a member of the American Agricultural Economics Association and Soil and Water Conservation Society. In 1984 he received the USDA Administrators Special Merit Award for outstanding research. He has received numerous Extension awards including the College Excellence in Extension and Research Award. In 1996 he received the Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award from the Practical Farmers of Iowa.
