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THE PASSING OF PROF GLENN GRIMES
Jul. 10, 2017
National Pork Producers Council reports:
The U.S. pork industry lost a giant this week with the passing of Professor Glenn Grimes, who died July 2.
The University of Missouri agricultural economist, who at one time was consulting economist for NPPC, began his career in 1951 as a county extension agent in southern Missouri. Five years later, he became a state livestock marketing specialist and served in that position at the university until 1985, when he retired - for the first time. From then through 2009, he served as professor emeritus, and worked part-time in the University of Missouri's Department of Agricultural Economics.
Grimes, who earned a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1965 from Mizzou, received numerous awards for his work, which included a series of studies on the structure of the pork industry and on characteristics, practices and attitudes of pork producers that chronicled the changing industry from the late 1970s through the 2000s. He developed the demand index as a way to quantify demand for meat products and livestock.
Among his accolades, Grimes was given the National Pork Board's Distinguished Service Award, was named Alumnus of the Year in 2010 by the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources and was included in National Hog Farmer's Top 50 Men and Women in the Pork Industry in 2005. In 2006, he was honored with the magazine's Master of the Pork Industry award. NPPC in 2010 inducted him into its Pork Industry Hall of Fame.
NPPC CEO Neil Dierks in a statement said: "Finding words to express what Professor Grimes meant to the U.S. pork industry is extremely difficult given the decades of fundamental work and knowledge he contributed to it. He examined and framed the foundational economics of today's pork industry for the benefit of all participants, particularly producers. His contributions to the understanding of markets and his educational efforts to share that understanding are beyond significant."
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