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Speeches and Presentations Oral Capps, Jr. and Joshua Strine presented Assessing the Effectiveness of Promotion Campaigns for Fluid Milk” at the 2022 International Food Marketing Research Symposium in San Antonio, TX. Gary W. Williams, Oral Capps, Jr., and Joe Somers presented The Economic Impact of ATP and USDA Export Market Development Programs” during the IHS Markit Webinar sponsored by the U.S. Grains Council and the US Agricultural Export Development Council in March 2022. A presentation, Dynamics of a Macroeconomic Shocks on Food Assistance Programs in the United States,” was given by Oral Capps, Jr. to Healthy Eating Research (HER) in June 2021. HER is national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at Duke University. A presentation, Demand Interrelationships and Socio-economic Factors Associated with the Purchase of Various Dairy Products in the United States,” authored by Long Gao, Oral Capps, Jr. and Senarath Dharmasena, was given at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2019 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. Gary W. Williams was featured as the keynote speaker at the 7th Congress on the Agricultural Economy and Natural Resources and the 1st National Congress on Climate Change in Texcoco, Mexico (November 2019), presenting Latin American Livestock Industry: Situation and Challenges.” Gary W. Williams was selected and served as a post-conference workshop moderator for the AAEA Post-Conference Workshop on The Convergence of Policy Issues in Produce Research: Labor/mechanization, NAFTA, and the Food Safety Modernization Act” held in Washington, D.C. in August 2018. There he gave a special presentation on his manuscript The Benefits of U.S. Imports of Mexican Avocados.” Gary W. Williams presented the paper, The National Economic Contribution of Generic Food and Agricultural Product Advertising and Promotion,” authored along with Dr. Oral Capps, Jr. and Daniel Hanselka, at the 2017 International Food Marketing Research Symposium in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Gary W. Williams, along with a number of experts in the agricultural industry, testified before the House Agriculture Committee in February 2017 to discuss the nature of international market development programs administered by the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service. Oral Capps, Jr. on behalf of the SAS Institute, continues to give numerous presentations on applied econometrics. Seminars and Conferences In June 2022, AFCERC co-hosted the International Food Marketing Research Symposium held in San Antonio, TX with the MAPP Centre, Aarhus University of Denmark. In addition, Oral Capps, Jr. and MS Student Josh Strine presented on Assessing the Effectiveness of Promotion Campaigns for Fluid Milk.” Seminar on Aflatoxin – In August, Dr. Ranajit Bandyopadhyay, Principal Scientist and Leader of the Africa-wide Aflasafe at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, gave his presentation (hosted by AFCERC) on Safer Crops, Better Health, and Higher Income: Ground-Truths from Development to Scaling-Up of Aflatoxin Biocontrol in Africa.” Publications Publications from Victoria Salin Publications from Oral Capps Publication Archive 2024 A Demand Systems Analysis for Cheese Varieties Using a Balanced Panel of U.S. Designated Market Areas over the Period 2018 to 2020. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming. Oral Capps, Jr. and Rafael Bakhtavoryan. A Comparison of Demand System Models Peculiar to a Granular Array of Dairy Products. Journal of Food Distribution Research, forthcoming. Oral Capps, Jr. and Long Gao. 2023 Multi-level Marketing System with Industrial Food Processing in Africa: Smallholder Tomato Farms in Tanzania. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Published October 2023. Nasibu Yusuph Mwinyiheri, Victoria Salin, Yu Yvette Zhang, Benxi Lin, and Chileshe Chewe. Habitual Behavior of Household Food Expenditure by Store Type in the United States. PLOSE ONE, Published September 2023. Keehyun Lee and Oral Capps, Jr. On the Robustness/Replication of Econometric Analyses from Nonlinear Models Using Various Commonplace Software Packages. Applied Econometric Perspectives and Policy, Published April 2023. Oral Capps, Jr. 2022 Producer Return on Investments in Sorghum Research and Promotion: An Updated Analysis from 2008 to 2021. Research Report to the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board, December 2022. Oral Capps, Jr. and Mark Welch. A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Demand for Coffee in the United States. Agribusiness: An International Journal, Volume 39, Issue 2, Published November 2022. Oral Capps, Muxi Cheng, Jennifer Kee, and Samuel L. Priestley . Forecasting Weekly Shipments of Hass Avocados from Mexico to the United States Using Econometric and Vector Autoregression Models book chapter in Econometrics – Recent Advances and Applications, Published September 2022 . Oral Capps, Jr. Consumer Attitudes and Consumption Patterns for Pecans and Other Tree Nuts: Beyond a Simple Shell Game . Journal of Food Distribution Research, Volume 53, Issue 2, Published July 2022. Oral Capps, Jr., H.L. Goodwin, and Loren N. Burns. A Household-Level Demand System Analysis of Nuts in the United States . Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Published June 2022. Rafael Bakhtavoryan, Guo Chris” Cheng, Oral Capps, Jr., and Senarath Dharmasena. Dynamics of Macroeconomic Factor Effects on Food Assistance Program Participation in the United States . PLOS ONE, Volume 17, Issue 6 , Published June 2022 . Oral Capps, Jr. The Apparent Conflict of Norwegian Pelagic Fisheries Management and Norwegian Seafood Council Export Promotion International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Volume 25, Issue 3, Published May 2022 . Gary W. Williams and Oral Capps, Jr. Chapter 16 – Processed Cheese: Applications, Challenges, and Market Trends in Processed Cheese Science and Technology. Published 2022. Yasser Bouhlal and Oral Capps. Jr. 2021 Demand Interrelationships for Peanuts and Tree Nuts in the United States . Journal of Agribusiness, Volume 39, Issue 1, Published Spring 2021 . Cheng, G., O. Capps, Jr., and S. Dharmasena Demand Analysis of Peanut and tree Nuts in the United States: A Micro-Perspective . International Food and...