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Professor
of Economics
Production, Marketing and
Business Management in Environmental Horticulture University
of Florida
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Mid-Florida Research & Education Center*
2725 Binion Road, Apopka, FL 32703-8504
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International
Experiences:
- Peace Corps: 1973-76, Agriculture
Extension Agent, Sierra Leone, West Africa.
- University of Arizona: 1981-1984,
Agriculture Economist, “The Mixed Farming
and Livestock Management Project,” The
Gambia, WestAfrica.
- University of Florida: 1990-91. Several
short-term assignments to La Paz and Cochabamba,
Bolivia. 1994-95, “Agroforestry Development
Project for Small Producers in Acre,
Brazil.”
Extension Activities:
The extension program addresses three areas:
(1) analysis of industry structure and agricultural
technologies; (2) development and implementation of
business and financial management programs; and (3)
identification of opportunities for increasing demand for
environmental horticultural products and development of
marketing programs that target nursery owners and
managers.
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Selected
publications:
- Barton, Susan S., John J. Haydu, Roger A.
Hinson, Robert E. McNeil, Travis D. Phillips,
Russell Powell and Forrest Stegglin.
"Establishing and Operating a Garden Center:
Requirements and Costs." Garden Centers of
America, 1250 I Street, NW, Washington D.C., 50
pp., 1993.
- Cisar, J.L., J.J. Haydu and L.B. McCarty.
"Sod Production in the Everglades
Agricultural Area." Chapter 11, in
Agriculture in the Everglades, Eds. F. Izzuno and
A. Botcher, University of Florida Press,
Gainesville, pp. 278-297, 1994.
- Haydu, John J. and Alan W. Hodges.
"Immigration Reform and Florida's Nursery
Industry." Chapter 20, in Agricultural Labor
and the Impact of Immigration Reform, Eds. P.
Matlon and B. Emerson, University of California
Press, Pub. 3358, 1995, pp. 399-414.
- Haydu, John J. and Richard J. Beeson.
"The Economic Feasibility of Microirrigating
Container Grown Landscape Plants." Journal
of Environmental Horticulture 15(1)(1997):23-29.
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