Regional President Speech

OPENING REMARKS BY ROGER GUFFEY, PRESIDENT FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Roger Gu ffey and I want to welcome you to Vail and to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City 's symposium on Agriculture ~odeling for Policy Anal ys is in the 1980s. ---------------- In select ing this topic as the subject of our Bank's fourth symposium on major public policy issues, we think the timing is par t i cularly appropriat e. Agricultural policy issues, in both the pub lic and the private sectors, have become increasingly complex--and i ncreasingly intertwined with other economic and political i ssues. In the years ahead, the issues will be of greater impor t ance and urgency to farmers and to nonfarmers alike. Yet the methodology used to support such decisionmaking has not kept pace with the emerging lssues. I trust that this symposium will not only identify these shortfalls in policy analysis methodology, but more i mportantly, will identify proposed soluti ons. We feel fortunate in having assembled a distinguished group of participant s on this pr ogram. We are equally pleased that those of you at tending this event are closely associated with policymaking and senior-level policy support at a b~oad range of both public and private institutions across the United States and Ca nada. In constructing the format for this symposium we have arranged t ime for discussion between the speakers and you, the audience. We believe such interaction has an important role -2­ in making this event a success, and I encourage your partici­ pation in the discussion. Let me now introduce the moderator for today's session, Dr. R. J. Hildreth, managing director of the Farm Foundation. Before joining the Farm Foundation in 1962, Dr. Hildreth was assistant Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. His public service includes appointments to the Joint Council for Food and Agricultural Sciences in the u.S. Department of Agriculture, and to the National Center for Voluntary Action. He is a past president and director of the American Agricultural Economics Association. I 9'..f-""f f .I( -S.D 2. c..J"O ~~ L.'b 4 / 0 I ~D --f&; ~ I '/. , I I ( ~ .,:,

J. Roger Guffey (1981, September 23). Regional President Speech. Speeches, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_19810924_j_roger_guffey

@misc{wtfs_regional_speeche_19810924_j_roger_guffey,
  author = {J. Roger Guffey},
  title = {Regional President Speech},
  year = {1981},
  month = {Sep},
  howpublished = {Speeches, Federal Reserve},
  url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_19810924_j_roger_guffey},
  note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}