Activity 5 Lead
Title: Professor/Head
Affiliation: University of Manitoba - Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
Email: Derek.Brewin@umanitoba.ca
Phone: 204-474-8702
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Derek Brewin is a Professor and Head of the Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics at the University of Manitoba. He has a Ph.D. from Penn State University in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics. His recent research has focused on spatial grain and oilseed markets as well as innovation in crops. He has published articles and chapters on the incentives to innovate in the private seed market. Derek is a current Director of Farm Management Canada. He is also the Director of the Sol Sinclair Institute for Farm Management. He has served as a Senator at the University of Manitoba and as a director of the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council. Prior to his academic career, Derek was a Corporate Advisor for the Canadian Wheat Board, a Policy Economist for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and a farm lender. Derek was raised on a mixed irrigation farm in Purple Springs, Alberta.