Emery N. Castle is Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University, where he taught agricultural economics for more than twenty-five years and held numerous administrative positions including Dean of the Graduate School, Director of the Water Resources Institute, and Dean of Faculty. For a decade he served as Vice President and then President of the public policy institute, Resources for the Future. He authored the textFarm Business Managementand editedThe Changing American Countryside: Rural People and Places.