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OCS Conference 2010—Biography

Al Mussell, Ph.D.: Senior Research Associate, George Morris Centre, Guelph, Ontario

Al Mussell PhD

Al Mussell is a Senior Research Associate at the George Morris Centre in Guelph. His areas of research expertise are farm management, agricultural marketing, and farm income policies. He also teaches finance and marketing in the George Morris Centres executive management courses.

Prior to joining the George Morris Centre, Al worked as an economist in the milk procurement division of Land O’Lakes, Inc. in Minnesota. Al holds bachelors and masters degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Guelph, and a doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Al is originally from Stratford, Ontario where he grew up in a family with roots in the farm supply and dairy business. Al now lives near Rockwood, Ontario, with his wife Alison, his daughter Emma and son Carson.