University of Georgia

Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin will outline the
state agricultural industry’s position in the international
marketplace in the 2005 Rod Ziemer Lecture April 12 in Athens.

Irvin’s address will be at 3:30 p.m. in Rooms K/L of the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.

The annual lecture series began in 1986 in memory of former UGA
graduate student Rod Ziemer, who died in a car accident in Texas
in 1984.

Ziemer wrote more articles than any other agricultural economics
graduate student. Selected as the College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences outstanding graduate student, he also
received the American Agricultural Economics Association
Outstanding Dissertation Award.

The lecture is designed to kindle a spirit of excellence in
future generations of agricultural economics graduate students.