Central National Technology Support Center Staff

David Buland

Economist

Updated 06/06/2007

Background

• Oldest son on a Minnesota Hog Farm
• Programmer, Harvard/Ford Foundation/India Water Resources Team, 1976-1978 
• Ag. Coop Advisor, U.S. Peace Corps, Malaysia Dept. of Ag., 1978-1982 
• Economist, SCS West Virginia Planning Staff, 1985-1990 
• State Economist, NRCS South Dakota Ecological Sciences Staff, 1990-1995 
• Economist, NRCS Natural Resources Inventory and Analysis Institute, Temple, TX, 1995 - 2004
• Economist, NRCS Central National Technology Support Center, Fort Worth, TX, 2004 to present
• 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, IA, 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
• Organizations:

• American Agricultural Economics Association

•     AAEA Economics, Statistics & Information Resources Committee

•     AAEA Extension Section

• American Economics Association

• American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

• Soil and Water Conservation Society

• USDA Economist Group 

• World Soil and Water Conservation Society

• 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.
• Website database development

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