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Christopher Wolf

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

Olynk, Nicole J., Wolf, Christopher A. 2010. Aligning Incentives for Contract Dairy Heifer Growth. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 35: 489-502.

Olynk, Nicole J., Tonsor, Glynn T., Wolf, Christopher A. 2010. Consumer Willingness to Pay for Livestock Credence Attribute Claim Verification. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 35: 261-280.

Wolf, Christopher A. 2010. Understanding the milk-to-feed price ratio as a proxy for dairy farm profitability. Journal of Dairy Science 93: 4942-4948.

Gramig, Benjamin M., Horan, Richard D., Wolf, Christopher A. 2009. Livestock Disease Indemnity Design when Moral Hazard is Followed by Adverse Selection. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91 627-641.

Olynk, Nicole J., Wolf, Christopher A., Tonsor, Glyndall T. 2009. Labeling of Credence Attributes in Livestock Production: Verifying Attributes Which are More than ‘Meet the Eye’. Journal of Food Law and Policy 5 181-199.

Pillars, Roxanne, Wolf, Christopher A., Kaneene, John, Grooms, Dan. 2009. Economic Evaluation of Johne’s Disease Control Programs Implemented on Six Michigan Dairy Farms. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 90 223-232.

Tonsor, Glyndall T., Olynk, Nicole, Wolf, Christopher A. 2009. Consumer Preferences for Animal Welfare Attributes: The Case of Gestation Crates. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 713-730.

Tonsor, Glyndall T., Wolf, Christopher A., Olynk, Nicole J. 2009. Consumer Voting and Demand Behavior Regarding Swine Gestation Crates. Food Policy 34 492-498.

Wolf, Christopher A., Black, J. R., Hadrich, Joleen C. 2009. Upper Midwest Dairy Farm Revenue Variation and Insurance Implications. Agricultural Finance Review 69 346-358.

Wolf, Christopher A., Lloyd, James W., Black, J. R. 2008. An Examination of US Consumer Pet and Veterinary Expenditures, 1980-2005. J. of American Veterinary Medical Association 233 404-413.

Ramirez, Miguel A., Wolf, Christopher A. 2008. Source Differentiated Mexican Dairy Import Demand. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 11 35-50.

Olynk, Nicole J., Wolf, Christopher A. 2008. Economic Analysis of Reproductive Management Strategies on US Dairy Farms. Journal of Dairy Science 91 4082-4091.

Horan, Richard D., Wolf, Christopher A., Fenichel, Eli P., Mathews, Jr, Kenneth H. 2008. Joint Management of Wildlife and Livestock Disease. Environmental and Resource Economics 41 47-70.

Hadrich, Joleen, Wolf, Christopher A., Black, J. R., Harsh, Stephen. 2008. Incorporating Environmentally Compliant Manure Nutrient Disposal Costs into Least Cost Livestock Ration Formulation. J. Agr. and Applied Economics 40/1.

Olynk, N. J., Wolf, C. A. (2007). Expected Net Present Value of Pure and Mixed Sexed Semen. American Dairy Science Association, 90, 2569-2576.