Earl O. Heady

(1916-1987) born near Imperial, Chase County, lived in Lincoln and Omaha. Agricultural economist, educator, author, became known as one of the world's foremost experts an farm management and production economics, co-founded and directed Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University from 1958 to 1983, served as consultant to more than 40 foreign governments, authored 22 books, including his landmark Economics of Agricultural Production and Resource Use (1952), and involved in writing more than 800 journal articles; awards include membership in Royal Swedish Academy of Science and Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences, nomination for Nobel Prize in Economics in 1981. Consult Agronomy Journal, Vol 70 January 1978) p. 157 and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 8 (Gale, 1983) 233-234 and Des Moines Register obituary, August 22, 1987, p. A-11.

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