Professor emeritus Goodwin honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

IRVING, Texas — H.L. Goodwin, Arkansas professor emeritus, was honored Tuesday by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association with its lifetime achievement award.
Goodwin was nominated for the award by Deacue Fields, a fellow agricultural economist, who is also head of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
“Early in my career, Dr. Goodwin was viewed as one of the icons in SAEA,” Fields said. “He was always present and very active in SAEA events. He was always welcoming and extremely approachable. He had outstanding technical knowledge; however, his mentorship and words of wisdom to early career professionals were extremely valuable.”
Fields praised Goodwin for his engagement in the three land-grant missions: teaching, research and extension.
“As part of the teaching mission, he taught more than 10 undergraduate and six different graduate courses throughout his career,” Fields said, adding that “student testimonials indicate that he was very engaging in the classroom and had a lasting impact.”
Goodwin was also productive in the research mission, which is confirmed by nearly 50 articles in professional journals.
“Goodwin’s scholarship in land-grant activities is balanced by his numerous contributions to outreach and extension,” Fields said. “He was well known and respected for his expertise as a poultry economist.”
In addition to creating lasting relationships with key poultry industry players such as Tyson Foods, Simmons Foods and Cobb-Vantress, “Goodwin has extended all areas of his work to the international community,” Fields said.

Lanier Nalley, head of Arkansas’ agricultural economics and agribusiness department, for both the Division of Agriculture and Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, underscored Fields’ comments.
“H.L. Goodwin is a model of a land-grant faculty member,” he said. “His work on poultry extension and research and in the classroom has made him one of the top poultry economists globally and one of the most respected teachers at the University of Arkansas.
“The state of Arkansas has been fortunate that H.L. has chosen to serve its stakeholders over his career. This award is well deserved and speaks to H.L.’s reputation as one of the country's best ag economists,” Nalley said.
Goodwin served as SAEA president in 2007, served on the executive committee for several years and remained extremely active in the organization until his retirement. He was also co-director of the Southern Risk Management Education Center.
Goodwin joined the faculty at Arkansas in 1996, and a year later joined the Center of Excellence for Poultry Science as a poultry economist. He retired as a full professor in 2018.
Before 1997, Goodwin was agricultural and food systems adviser to Slovakia’s minister of agriculture and was a Fulbright Scholar in the former Czechoslovakia from 1991-92.
Prior to joining the Arkansas faculty, Goodwin was associate director of the Texas Agriculture Market Research Center from 1989-95.
Goodwin earned his bachelor of science in agricultural education from Oklahoma State University and stayed to earn a master’s and doctorate in agricultural economics.