Distinguished Fellows Address, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Meeting, February 8, 2013.

President Elect, President, Past President, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2011-2014.

Citation for Distinguished Graduate/Professional Teaching, University of California, Davis, 2012.

Outstanding Published Research Award, Western Agricultural Economics Association, 2011.

Outstanding Journal Article Award, Honorable Mention, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, 2011.

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Best Paper Award: Communication Strategy, 2011.

Outstanding Published Research Award, Western Agricultural Economics Association, 2005.

Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 2004-05

Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2004.

Director, Executive Board, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2004-07.

Listed in Who's Who in Economics, Fourth Edition.

H.C. Filley Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska, April 2002.

Hanson Lecturer, Department of agricultural Economics, Purdue University, April 2001.

Waugh Lecturer, American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Tampa, Florida, August 2000.

Outstanding Published Research Award, Western Agricultural Economics Association, 1999.

Co-Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volumes 80-82 (1998-2000).

Outstanding article in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1996.

Outstanding Published Research Award Honorable Mention, Western Agricultural Economics Association, 1996.

Hicks-Tinbergen Medal, European Economic Association Award for Outstanding Research, 1994.

Edwin G. Nourse Award for Doctoral Dissertation, Amer. Inst. of Cooperation, 1984.

Public Policy Research Award, American Council on Consumer Interests, 1980.