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Christopher Wolf

Associate Professor

Phone: 517 353-3974 
FAX: 517 432-1800 
Email: wolfch@msu.edu
Office: 317A Agriculture Hall

B.S. 1991 University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. 1997 University of California-Davis

Professional Interests

  • Farm management
  • Dairy Markets and policy
  • Risk management on dairy farms
  • Economics of livestock disease
  • Structural change in agriculture
  • Technology adoption by farms
  • Measuring and explaining farm size distributions

Selected Publications

Sumner, Daniel and Christopher Wolf. "Diversification, Vertical Integration and the Regional Pattern of Dairy Farm Size." Review of Agricultural Economics 24(Fall/Winter 2002):442-457.

Hadley, Gregg, Stephen Harsh and Christopher Wolf. "Managerial and Financial Implications of Major Dairy Farm Expansions in Michigan and Wisconsin." Journal of Dairy Science 85(August 2002):2053-2064.

Wolf, Christopher and Duane Banderob. "Voluntary Over-order Fluid Milk Premium Agreements and Implications for Policy Choices." Journal of Cooperatives 17(2002):33-48.