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David Buland, Economist
USDA NRCS Center National
Technology Center
501 West Felix Street, Bldg 23 P.O. Box 6567
Fort Worth, TX 76115
Phone: (817) 509-3577
Fax: (817) 509-3337
E-mail:
David.Buland@ftw.usda.gov
Background
- Oldest son on a Minnesota Hog Farm
- Programmer, Harvard/Ford Foundation/India Water Resources Team,
1976-1978
- Ag. Coop Advisor, US Peace Corps, Malaysia Dept. of Ag., 1978-1982
- Economist on West Virginia SCS Planning Staff, 1985-1990
- State Economist on NRCS South Dakota Ecological Science Staff,
1990-1995
- Economist in the Natural Resources Inventory and Analysis Institute, 1995
- 2004
- Economist on the Central National Technology Support Center in Fort
Worth, 2004 - ?
- Selected as the USDA Economist of the Year for 2000 by the USDA
Economist Group
Education
- Hayfield High School, Hayfield, MN, 1974
- BA in Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1978
- MA in Theology, Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, 1986
- MA in Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 1992
Interests:
- Technical Support for NRCS
economists including the
NRCS Economics Site
- Natural resources and agricultural economics, including:
-
Cost And Return Estimation
-
Watershed
benefit/cost analysis
-
IMPLAN input/output
estimation
-
Farm
management
- Database management and
analysis
using NRI, NASS, Ag. Census, Census, CTIC and
price indexes
- Agricultural modeling including the Blackland family of models:
CroPMan, EPIC,
APEX, SWAT,
CARE,
ProCosts.
- National
agricultural
demographic analysis
- Direct response to field requests for economic, natural resource,
scientific, and technical information and assistance
- Involved in developing Farm Bill Program Rules and Benefit/Costs Analysis
for the Environmental
Quality Incentives Program, ,
Conservation Security
Program, Technical Service Providers,
Wetlands Reserve Program,
and Small, Limited
Resource, and Minority Farmers.
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Website database development
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