Every year the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics Graduate Student Association organizes a Rod Ziemer Lecture. The purpose of the seminar is to honor a former outstanding student in our department,  the late Dr. Rod Ziemer, who died in a car wreck in 1984.

Life of Rod F. Ziemer, Ph.D.

Rod Ziemer lived life to the fullest. He was a man of compassion, energy and enthusiasm.  He was loved by all those who came in contact with him.

At the University of Georgia, he was best remembered as an outstanding graduate student. He wrote more articles as a graduate student than any other student in agricultural economics. But, he also influenced the lives of other graduate students, faculty and staff. When faculty members in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences selected him as the College's outstanding graduate student, they remarked that his record was sufficient to be promoted to associate professor.  He received the profession's highest award for a graduate student - the American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Dissertation Award.

He continued as an outstanding researcher and teacher as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M. His life was cut short in a head-on collision on a Texas highway in 1984.  He will always be remembered by those whose lives he touched.

To honor his memory, the Rod F. Ziemer lecture was established in 1986. Many of the distinguished lecturers knew Rod personally. The Lecture is designed to kindle a kindred spirit of excellence in future generations of graduate students in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Georgia.

Education:

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, June 1981.  Areas of Concentration:  Econometrics, Resource Economics, Public policy, Production Economics

M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, December 1977

B.B.A., Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia, December 1974

Professional Experience:

Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, October 1976 to June 1981

Statistical Analyst, New York Cotton Exchange, June 1978 to September 1978

Assistant Professor, Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M university, July 1981 to April 1984

University of Georgia (UGA):

As a graduate student at UGA -
   29 Journal Articles
   15 Papers Presented
    3 Experiment Station Publications

Tesas A&M University:

As an assistant professor at Texas A&M -
   7 Journal Articles
   1 Experiment Station Publication
   1 Book
   1 Book Chapter
   3 Papers Presented

Honors:

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, College of Agriculture, University of Georgia, 1979

Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, 1981

Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1982

Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, 1979

Gamma Sigma Delta, 1977

University-Wide Assistantship, October 1978 to May 1979, October 1979 to May 1981

Student Representative to Agricultural Economics Graduate Committee, 1979 to 1980

Personal:

Date of Birth: March 22, 1953
Death: April 1984

Publications by Rod F. Ziemer

An Application of a Truncated Regression Model to Recreation Demand. Wetzstein, M.E. and R.F. Ziemer. North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics, 5(1983):5-10.

An Analysis of Factors Affecting Differential Assessment Legislation. 1981. Ziemer, Rod F., White, Fred C., & Clifton, Ivery D. Public Choice, v36, pp. 43-52.

Assessment of Journals Used by Agricultural Economics at Land-Grant Universities. Broder, Josef M. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1984. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, v16 (July 1984) pp. 167-172.

The Demand for and Value of Wildlife Recreation in Georgia. Ziemer, Rod F. 1978. Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations Research bulletin # 221.

Determinants of Agricultural Economics Faculty Salaries. Broder, Josef M. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1982. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v64 (May 1982), pp. 301-303.

Differential Assessment and Agricultural Land Use in the South Ziemer, Rod F., et al. 1985. Review of Regional Studies, v15, (Winter 1985), pp. 46-57.

Disequilibrium in Agricultural Markets: The U.S. Beef Sector. Ziemer, Rod Franklin. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1981.

Disequilibrium Market Analysis: An Application to the U.S. Fed Beef Sector. Ziemer, Rod F. & White, Fred C. 1982. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v64 (Feb. 1982), pp. 56-62.

Disequilibrium Market Analysis: An Application to the U.S. Fed Beef Sector: Reply. Ziemer, Rod F. & White, Fred C. 1983. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v65 (May 1983), pp. 364-365.

Disequilibrium Prices and Economics Surplus in the U.S. Fed Beef Market. White, Fred C. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1983. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, v31 (July 1983), pp. 197-204.

An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Tobit Estimates. Cox, Thomas L. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1985. Agricultural economics staff paper series (Madison, Wis.) no. 234.

Estimating Recreation Values Associated with Land Use Changes. Musser, Wesley N. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1979. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, v11 (Dec. 1979), pp.97-102.

Farm Real Estate Pricing Under Risk: An Empirical Investigation. White, Fred C. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1982. Southern Economic Journal, v49 (July 1982), pp. 77-87.


Granger Causality and U.S. Crop and Livestock Prices. Ziemer, Rod F. & Collins, Glenn S. 1984. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, v16 (July 1984), pp. 115-120.

Mitigating the effects of Multicollinearity Using Exact and Stochastic Restrictions: The Case of an Aggregate Agricultural Production Function in Thailand: Comment. Hill, R. Carter, Ziemer, Rod F., & White, Fred C. 1981. American Journal of Agricultural economics, v63 (May 1981), pp. 298-300.

Pooling Time Series and Cross Section Data: An Application of the Stein_Rule to Recreational Demand. Ziemer, R.F. and M.E. Wetzstein. Economic Letters, 11(1983):137-143.

Principal Components and Stein-Like Estimation. Ziemer, Rod F. & Hill, R. Carter. 1981. Canadian Journal of Agricultural economics, v29 (July 1981), pp. 243-246.

Recreation Demand Equations: Functional from and Consumer Surplus. Ziemer, Rod F., Musser, Wesley N., & Hill, R. Carter. 1980. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v62 (Feb. 1980), pp. 136-141.

Reporting Econometric Results: Believe It or Not? Ziemer, Rod F. 1984. Land Economics, v60 (February 1984), pp. 122-127.

Research Productivity and Selected Characteristics of Agricultural Economics Research and Teaching Faculty in the Southern Region. Broder, Josef M. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1980. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, v12 (Dec. 1980) pp.157-160.

The Risk of General Stein-Like Estimators in the Presence of Multicollinearity. Hill, R. Carter & Ziemer, Rod F. 1984. Journal of Econometrics, v. 25 (May/June 1984), pp. 205-216.

Sample Selection Bias in Analysis of Consumer Choice: An Application to Warmwater Fishing Demand. Ziemer, Rod F., et al. 1982. Water Resources Research, v18 ( April 1982), pp. 215-219.

Stochastic Efficiency, Normality, and Sampling Errors in Agricultural Risk Analysis. Pope, Rulon D. & Ziemer, Rod F. 1984. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v66 (February 1984) pp. 31-40.

A Study of Student Satisfaction in Economics Courses. Broder, J.M., R.F. Ziemer and M.E. Wetzstein. Midsouth Journal of Economics, 5(2), 1981:51-56.

Tobit Model of the Demand for Farmland. Ziemer, Rod F. & White, Fred C. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, v13 (Dec. 1981), pp. 105-109.

Tolerance Limits and Expected Utility Analysis. Ziemer, Rod F. 1983. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v65 (August 1983), pp. 611-614.

(Courtesy Ms. Laura Alfonso)

Speakers for the Rod F. Ziemer Lecture
2004
John Baffes
2003
Ronald D. Lacewell
2002 
Jean D. Kinsey

2001
Andrew Schmitz
2000
Rulon D. Pope
1999
C. Richard Shumway
1997 
Walt Armbruster
1996 
Alan Randall
1994
John M. Antle
1993
Jim Chalfant
1990
Sandra Batie
1989
Alex F. McCalla
1988
R. Carter Hill and Oral Capps
1987
Gordon Rausser and James Houck

 

Rod Ziemer Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award
1983-2003

Year
Ph. D. Category
MS Category
2003
Murali Adhikari and Laxmi Paudel
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2002
Murali Adhikari and Laxmi Paudel
Mawar A. Tresna
2001
Bruno Lanfranco
Vahe Heboyan
2000
Irfan Y. Tareen
Bruno Lanfranco
1999
Ecio F. Costa, and Irfan Y. Tareen
Izuchukwu Onunkwo
1998
Renata Elad
Yoshie Saito Lord
1997
Jeff Price
Izuchukwu Onunkwo
1996
Quinghai Wang
Manlio Santillan
1995
Bernard Armah
---
1994
Jamal Bin Othman
Ibrahima Yague
1993
Jamal Bin Othman
Sonja Kirby
1992
Tommy L. Shepherd III
Nicolas Ahouissoussi
1990
Huei-Ling Hou
Jamal Bin Othman
1989
Nona R. French
Young-Hyo Ha
1988
Jackie B. Langston
Kihong Jeong
1987
Tassos Haniotis
Nona R. French
1986
Vickie Alexander
Tsu-Tan Jeo Fu
1985
Vickie Alexander
Joyce Jong-Wen Wann
1984
James Duffield, Anthony Joseph, and Philip Szmedra
Larry Lynor Lyu
1983
David McElyea
Holly Tyan