Many CAES Fellows remain active and contributing members of the Society. The Focus on Fellows series began in 2014 to provide a forum where Fellows’ perspectives on Canadian agricultural issues, gained through a lifetime of research and experience, can be discussed with junior members of the profession and graduate students. The research reports published in this series are presented in a dedicated symposium at the CAES annual meeting, and include completed research, works in progress or thought-provoking information pieces. The papers have not been peer reviewed. Any opinions expressed in this series of reports represent those of the authors and not of the officials of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.
2014 - Nearly a Half Century of Supply Management in Canadian Agriculture - What has been accomplished and where are we going?
- Canadian Supply Management: Challenges of the Past, Present and Future. Michele Veeman
- Options for Exit from Supply Management in World of Growing Milk Product Demand. Richard Barichello, UBC
- Supply Management as a Risk Management Tool: Has it been Successful? Douglas Hedley
- Discussion: Market and non-Market Failures? Glenn Fox, University of Guelph
- Discussion: Has it Been Worth It? Andrew Schmitz, University of Florida
2015 - The Evolution of Policy Directions for Agriculture in Canada
- 50 Years of Measuring Support to Agriculture in Canada: Overview and Interpretation. Lars Brink
- The Evolution of Agricultural Support Policy in Canada. Douglas Hedley
- The Rise and Fall of the Canadian Wheat Board. Bill Miner
2016 - Trade
- Food Security Concerns to 2050 – Importance of Increased International Trade and Agricultural Productivity. Alex McCalla, University of California, Davis (retired)
- Improving Prospects for Agriculture and Food Security through International Trade – the free traders win the arguments but the protectionists get the votes. W.A. Kerr, University of Saskatchewan
- Improving Agricultural Productivity Security – What’s the evidence? Richard Barichello, University of British Columbia and K. K. Klein, University of Lethbridge
2017 - Thirty Years Since the Brundtland Report (Our Common Future): What Have We learned and What Has Changed?
- The Brundtland Report on Sustainable Development: What Did It Say, Its Interpretation Difficulties, and Its Impact. Terry Veeman, University of Alberta
- Estimating Values of Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital and Incorporating these into Agricultural and Environmental Policy. Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta
- Sustainable Development in Practice: Three Case Studies Examining the Legacy of the Brundtland Report. Glenn Fox, University of Guelph
2018 - NAFTA in Crisis or Renewal: An Exploration of the “Elephants in the Room”
- Introduction: From Reciprocity to National Policy to Auto Pact to NAFTA to T3 (Trump Trade Theory. Kurt Klein, University of Lethbridge
- Supply Managed Sector: Why is this “Elephant” so Resilient? Bruno Larue, Université Laval
- Border Thickening: Any Prospects of a Diet for this “Elephant”? William Kerr, University of Saskatchewan
- A Paper (and Softwood Lumber) “Elephant”. Kees van Kooten, University of Victoria
- Prospects for Canadian agriculture if we Cannot Solve the “Elephant Problems” (Sustainability and Trade). Douglas Hedley, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Retired)
2022 - Scott Jeffrey, University of Alberta
Elwin Smith, AAFC Lethbridge and University of Lethbridge
2024 - Volatility in Agricultural Markets: Ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future
Disequilibrium and Volatility in the Canadian Egg Market – The Path to Supply Management. William A. Kerr
A Spatial Time Series Analysis of Western Canadian Commodity Price Volatility. James Vercammen
Climate Change and the Future of Publicly Subsidized Crop Insurance in Canada. Alan Ker