Dr. Wayne Howard is professor and Chair of the Agribusiness Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. At Cal Poly he has taught farm management, rural appraisal and a graduate class in agricultural development. Prior to coming to Cal Poly in 1999, Dr. Howard spent 12 years at the University of Guelph, Canada, where he taught and studied decision-making on the farm and in agribusiness. Specific projects included managing people on the farm, managing multi-generation family farms, herd health issues and how to prevent and resolve conflicts over farming practices. He has published 41 refereed papers, six book chapters and over 60 reports and articles in trade publications. Dr. Howard’s work has taken him to Australia, Uganda, Kenya and China, and he has consulted with a variety of governments and trade organizations. He has a Ph.D. from Texas A&M, a M.S. from the University of Florida and a B.A. from Humboldt State.
Articles
Tasting Room Insights From San Luis Obispo County (with Kathryn Vogt), Wine Business Monthly (2009)
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PET Wine Bottles: Will Consumers Accept Them? (with David Baird), Wine Business Monthly (2008)
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Murgo Farms Inc.: HACCP, ISO 9000, and ISO 14000 (with David Sparling and Jonathon Lee), International Food and Agribusiness Review (2001)
Murgo Farms Inc., addresses the challenge of choosing between the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point...
Conflicts Over Farming Practices in Canada: The Role of Interactive Conflict Resolution Approaches (with Lorne Owen and Mark Waldron), Journal of Rural Studies (2000)
An increasing number of articles in professional and scientific journals, as well as in the...
Reports
Report to the Provost: Task Group on the Future of the Library (with Joseph Grimes, Linda Halisky, Timothy J. Kearns, Franz J. Kurfess, Michael D. Miller, Roxy Peck, George J. Petersen, Jay A. Singh, and Christopher Yip), Report to the Provost: Task Group on the Future of the Library (2007)
The Provost's task group met Spring Quarter 2007 to examine the role of the library...
Estimating the Impacts of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies on the Net Income of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach (with Roland Fumasi and Jay E. Noel), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2005)
While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited...
Off-farm Work by Census-farm Operators: An Overview of Structure and Mobility Patterns (with Michael Swidinsky and Alfons Weersink), Working Paper # 38 - Statistics Canada, Agriculture Division (1998)
The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptive statistics on off-farm labour supply and...
The Economic Benefits of New Information Technology (with Glenn Fox and Calum Turvey), Working Papers (1996)
The purpose of this study is to analyze the demand and supply of information within...
Conference Proceedings
Projecting Regional Market Shares for Selected Florida Fresh Market Vegetables (with Arden W. Colette), Proceedings of the Florida State Horticulture Soceity (1981)
Growers of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants and green peppers in Florida have exhibited concern about their...