1. Born May 15, 1914, Fresno, California. Lived on ranches in the Imperial Valley, San Fernando Valley, and San Bernardino area in California. Attended Los Angeles High School and Los Angeles Junior College.

2. Married Mary Herget in 1942; four sons: W. Wesley, Stephen A., James M.,

and Timothy S.

3. B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1937;

M.S., Montana State College, 1938;

4. Littauer Fellow, Harvard University, 1941-42.

5. Economist for the Farm Credit Administration, 1939-41;

6. Ensign, U.S.N.R., 1942-43.

7. Economist for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations,

1947-48. Member of the U.N. Mission to Siam, 1948.

8. Consultant to the Office of Price Stabilization, 1951;

9. Associate Professor, Penn State University, 1948-49;

10. Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Minnesota, 1951-60.

11. Chairman, Governor's Study Commission on Agriculture, Minnesota, 1957-58. Published the Report of the Governors Study Commission on Agriculture.

12. Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 1958-59.

13. Author of numerous articles and bulletins including:

The prize-winning journal article, "Farm Price Gyrations--An Aggregative Hypothesis," Journal of Farm Economics, May 1947.

Presidential address to the American Farm Economic Association, "Farm Technology, Foreign Surplus Disposal, and Domestic Supply Control," Journal of Farm Economics, December 1959.

The Fellows Lecture entitled "American Farm Policy in a Tumultuous World," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December 1970.

Feast or Famine: The Uncertain World of Food and Agriculture and Its Policy Implications for the United States, National Planning Assn., February 1974.

Agricultural Economics at the University of Minnesota 1886-1979, Exp. Sta. Misc. Pub. 21, 1983.

"The Need to Rethink Agricultural Policy in General and to Perform Some Radical Surgery on Commodity Programs in Particular," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December 1985.

"The Troubled American Economy--An Institutional Policy Analysis." Review of Agricultural Economics, 19 (No. 1, Spring/Summer), 1997.

Economics of American Agriculture, 1st ed., 1951.

Economics of American Agriculture, 2nd ed., 1960.

Economics of American Agriculture, 3rd ed., 1974.

Economics of Consumption, 1956.

15. Author of five books:

Farm Prices--Myth and Reality, 1958.

The World Food Problem: A Guardedly Optimistic View, 1969.

Agricultural Development Planning: Economic Concepts, Administrative Procedures and Political Process, 1974.

16. Vice President, American Farm Economic Association, 1954-55;

17. Agricultural Advisor to Senator John F. Kennedy in the Presidential Campaign, July-December 1960. Prepared the draft of the Kennedy white paper on Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Policy for the New Frontier.

18. Director, Agricultural Economics, USDA; and Economic Advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, January 1961 to June 30, 1964. In this position I was administratively responsible for the Economic Research Service, the Statistical Reporting Service and all program planning work in the USDA.

19. Received Distinguished Service Award from the USDA in May 1964.

20. Resumed position of Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Minnesota, July 1, 1964.

21. Dean, Office of International Programs, University of Minnesota, June 15, 1965 to June 30, 1970. In this position I was responsible for all international activities of the University.

22. Consultant to the Commodity Credit Corporation of the USDA, 1964-69;

23. Elected Fellow of the American Farm Economic Association, August 1965.

24. Member of OAS Ad Hoc Committee to Paraguay to evaluate the national development plan, 1965-66.

25. Member of the National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, 1965-67. Helped prepare the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, Food and Fiber for the Future, 1967.

26. Consultant to FAO of the United Nations on the Indicative World Plan for Agriculture Development, 1965-67.

27. Received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Montana State University, June 11, 1967.

28. Member of the Committee on Agriculture of the National Planning Association, 1955 to 1977.

29. Ford Foundation consultant to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture of the Government of India, February to March 1967, January to April 1968, February to March 1969, and January to March 1970.

30. Resumed position of Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Minnesota, July 1, 1970.

31. Ford Foundation consultant to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of Thailand, October-November 1970.

32. Became Professor of Public Affairs, as well as Agricultural Economics, University of Minnesota, September 1971.

33. Ford Foundation consultant to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of the Philippines, January 1973.

34. Consultant to Ministry of Agriculture of the Government of Saudi Arabia, September-October 1973, and March 1974.

35. Consultant to FAO of the United Nations on a Strategy of International Agricultural Adjustment, 1974-75.

36. Visiting Professor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, January-February 1976.

37. Visited Australia, January-February 1977, as a guest lecturer of the Australian Institute of Political Science.

38. Consultant to Winrock International Livestock Research and Training Center, January 1978 to 1981.

39. Member of the Economic Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce, May 1979 to December 1980.

40. Named Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year, Minnesota Chapter, June 1980.

41. Member of a Drafting Committee on the "Family Farm" of the National Experiment Station Committee on Policy, June 1980 to January 1981.

42. Retired from the University of Minnesota as of September 30, 1981. Moved to Sutter Creek, California.

43. Appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Davis, October 1, 1981. The appointment was terminated in 1989.

44. Gave the Benjamin H. Hibbard Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1984. Lecture entitled "Agricultural Policy in the United States--A Long View."

45. Consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, 1982-1986.

46. Moved back, first to Roberts, Wisconsin in 1989, and then to Stillwater, Minnesota in 1992.

47. Reappointed to the Graduate School Faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1989. Currently doing some lecturing, research, and writing in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics of the University of Minnesota.

48. On the 29^th day of July 1997, the Foundation of the American Agricultural Economics Association granted a charter to the Willard W. Cochrane Appreciation Club.