Michael Popp
Professor of Agricultural EconomicsAgriculture Bldg. Room 228
(479) 575-6838 (Phone)
(479) 575-5306 (Fax)
Background
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.
Education
- Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, 1995
- MBA, Finance, University of Colorado, 1991
- B Comm, Management Information Systems, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1990
Professional Background
- Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 1996-1997, 1999 - present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1997 - 1998.
- University of Manitoba and Oklahoma State University
- 2 M.S. directed
- 1 Ph.D. member
- 6 M.S. member
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
Activities
Membership in Professional and Honorary Societies:
- Member of Economic and Feed committees on Manitoba Beef Advantage (1997-98).
- Director on the Manitoba Farm Business Management Council (1998).
- Member of the Canadian Agricultural Marketing Association (1998).
- Member of American Agricultural Economics Association (1994 - present)
- Member of Western Agricultural Economics Association (1993 - 1996)
- Member of Southern Agricultural Economics Association (1996 - present)
- Member of the Society of Range Management (1996 - 1997)
Grants
| NRI grant: | $ 14,000 |
| SARE grant: | $ 20,000 |
| State commodity boards: | $154,000 |
| Experiment Station: | $ 10,000 |
| Canadian Sources in $CDN: | $ 32,000 |
| Other funds | $ 4,500 |
| $234,500 |
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Teacher Recognition Award. 1998. University of Manitoba.
- 1st Place, Presented Poster Award. 2001. Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
Publications
Selected Publications
- Parsch, L., M. Popp and O. Loewer. 1997. "Stocking Rate Risk for Pasture-fed Steers under Weather Uncertainty". Journal of Range Management. 50(5):541-549.
- Popp, M., M. Skold, and N. Dalsted. 1997. "Multiple Peril Crop Insurance: An Evaluation of Crop Insurance in Northeastern Colorado". Journal of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. 61:95-104.
- Popp, M., M. Faminow and L. Parsch. 1999. "Factors Affecting the Adoption of Value-Added Production on Cow-calf Farms." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 31(1):97-108.
- Popp, M. and M. Rudstrom. 2000. "Crop Enterprise Diversification and Specialty Crops". Agricultural Finance Review (60):85-98.
- Popp, M., L. Oliver, C. Dillon, T. Keisling, and P. Manning. 2000. "Evaluation of Seed Bed Preparations, Planting Method and Herbicide Alternatives for Dryland Soybean Production." Agronomy Journal 92:1149-1155.
- Popp, M., T. Keisling, C. Dillon, and P. Manning. 2001. "Economic and Agronomic Assessment of Deep Tillage in Soybean Production on Mississippi River Valley Soils." Agronomy Journal 93:164-169.