University of Georgia
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin will outline the state agricultural industry's position in the international marketplace in the 2005 Rod Ziemer Lecture April 12 in Athens.Irvin's address will be at 3:30 p.m. in Rooms K/L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
The annual lecture series began in 1986 in memory of former UGA graduate student Rod Ziemer, who died in a car accident in Texas in 1984.
Ziemer wrote more articles than any other agricultural economics graduate student. Selected as the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences outstanding graduate student, he also received the American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Dissertation Award.
The lecture is designed to kindle a spirit of excellence in future generations of agricultural economics graduate students.