Dr. Warren Lee retired from his Ohio State agricultural finance and farm management position on March 31, 2003. He joined Ohio State in 1970 after completing his Ph.D. program at Michigan State University. Earlier, he had done an M.S. degree at the University of Illinois and a B.S. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Toronto not far from the Canadian farm on which he grew up.
Dr. Lee's Extension work focused on agricultural finance, farm appraisal, estate planning, and management of agricultural loan portfolios. In recent years, he was State Leader for FINPACK education and the state leader of OSU Extension's highly successful income tax schools.
He researched rural financial market policy issues, as well as structural and technical changes in the U.S. farm sector. He was a long-time investigator of the changing structure of commercial banking and the Farm Credit System.
He was co-author of several editions of a well-known undergraduate text in agricultural finance.
At the time of his retirement, he was a member of Ohio's Board of Tax Equalization and the Current Agricultural-Use Value Advisory Committee.
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Keith L. Smith, Associate Vice President for Ag. Adm. and Director, OSU Extension.
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