The objectives and purpose of the Western Agricultural Economics Association shall be:

• To foster the study and understanding of agricultural economics and its application to problems in the western United States and Canada;
   
• To promote unity and effectiveness of effort among all concerned with those problems;
   
• To promote improvement in the professional competence and standards of all members;
   
• To cooperate with other organizations and institutions engaged in similar or related activities; and
   
• To increase the contribution of agricultural economics to human welfare.

AAEA, the National Association for Agricultural and Resource Economists