Willard Cochrane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willard Cochrane

American economist

Date of Birth: 15-May-1914

Place of Birth: Fresno, California, United States

Date of Death: 05-Mar-2012

Profession: economist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Willard Wesley Cochrane (May 15, 1914 – March 5, 2012) was an agricultural economist and a leading architect of farm policy in the United States. He was born in 1914 in California and went on to earn degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, Montana State University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he served in government and United Nations agricultural agencies.
He served in the Navy during World War II.
He became Professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota in 1951. During the 1960s he was U.S.
Department of Agriculture's head agricultural economist under U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman.
During this time he developed proposals for supply management policy and a national food stamp program. He was an advocate of sustainable family farming and coined the concept of the technology treadmill.
He was opposed to government commodity program payments and an early advocate of set aside programs to benefit conservation.