Michael Popp Professor of Agricultural Economics Agriculture Bldg. Room 228 (479) 575-6838 (Phone) (479) 575-5306 (Fax) mpopp@uark.edu

Michael Popp has research interests in the areas of farm and agribusiness management with an emphasis on risk management. Dr. Popp is interested in issues related to new and existing technology, within-firm enterprise resource allocation decisions, and interactions between production and marketing decisions for commercial crop and/or livestock farms. Specific objectives are to identify risk/return tradeoffs associated with enterprise diversification of farm operations; this includes the evaluation of the impact of various crop rotations and production timing decisions on whole farm risk and returns for field crop agriculture; it also includes comparisons of new production alternatives to conventional methods in terms of both profitability and risk exposure. Current research efforts are focused on the economics of soybean production and agribusiness case analyses. Dr. Popp comes from a farm and agribusiness background in Manitoba, Canada and grew up in Germany. Dr. Popp has received a college teaching award at the University of Manitoba and also has recently been award a presented poster award at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association meetings.

Courses Taught:

AGEC 3303 Marketing of Farm Products
61.040 Introduction to Agricultural Economics
61.354 Financial Risk Management
AGEC 4403 Advanced Farm Business Management
AGEC 2143 Agribusiness Financial Records
AGEC 4313 Agribusiness Management

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