The AREC department offers undergraduate degrees at the Corvallis campus and at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande. AREc also offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural and resource economics, specializing in natural resource and environmental economics, international trade and marketing, rural economics and poverty, and productivity analysis and measurement. We also participate in the Graduate Program in Economics administered by the Graduate School.
Ag Cooperatives Tour
The AREC 372 Agricultural Cooperatives class enjoying the traditional Ag Cooperatives Tour. The AREC 372 course is designed to provide a primer on agricultural cooperatives including such topics as principles of membership and business control, management perspectives, and relationships and linkages between cooperatives.
During the tour students visited Farm Credit Services, Norpac Foods Repack Plant and the Ag Cooperative Council of Oregon Office in Salem. During lunch at the ACCO office, speakers from the Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative and Oregon Telecommunications Cooperative Associations explained their roles. After lunch it was on to the Farmers Cooperative Creamery and Wilco Farmers Retail Store in McMinnville, the Wilco Farmers Agronomy Plant in Whiteson and then the final visit at Eola Hills Wine Cellars in Rickreall.
At each stop, company spokespersons pointed out that agricultural cooperatives have a long and successful history and are doing economically well in today's economy. Students were encouraged to consider careers in agricultural cooperatives.
ACCO provides support to OSU's ag personnel and ag cooperatives classes and sponsored the tour.