- Name
- Richard Vyn
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- Specialization
- Land Economics, Marketing
- Office
- Room 303, Reek Building, Ridgetown Campus
- Phone Number
- ext. 63552
- Profile
- Richard Vyn is an assistant professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, based at the Ridgetown Campus. He completed a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Guelph in 2007. Previously, Richard worked for three years as a Production Economist for Alberta Agriculture, Food & Rural Development. He grew up on a cash-crop farm just outside of Guelph.
- Website
- http://www.ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca/research/profile_rvyn.cfm
- Research Interests
- Land use policy and farmland values, economic analysis of agricultural production practices, simulation modeling, hedonic analysis.
- Teaching Interests
- Microeconomics, Marketing.
- Select Publications
- Soltani, N., Vyn, R. J., Van Eerd, L. L., Shropshire, C., & Sikkema, P. H. (2009). Effect of reduced herbicide rates on weed control, environmental impact and profitability of corn. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, forthcoming.
Sikkema, P. H., Vyn, R. J., Shropshire, C., & Soltani, N. (2008). Integrated weed management in white bean production. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 88, 555-561.
Zandstra, J. W., Robinson, D. E., Vyn, R. J., Fisher, P., Huffman, L., & Verhallen, A. (2008). Strawberry development and weed suppression in cover crop and reduced tillage systems. North American Strawberry Symposium / North American Strawberry Growers Association Proceedings, 1, 160-163.
Soltani, N., Van Eerd, L. L., Vyn, R. J., Shropshire, C., & Sikkema, P. H. (2007). Weed control, environmental impact and profitability of reduced rates of imazethapyr in combination with dimethenamid in dry beans. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 87, 671-678.
Sikkema, P. H., Van Eerd, L. L., Vyn, R. J., & Weaver, S. (2007). A comparison of reduced rate and economic threshold approaches to weed management in corn-soybean rotation. Weed Technology, 21, 647-655.
Soltani, N., Van Eerd, L. L., Vyn, R. J., Shropshire, C., & Sikkema, P. H. (2007). Weed management in dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) with dimethenamid plus reduced doses of imazethapyr applied preplant incorporated. Crop Protection, 26, 739-745.
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