THE FRYAR CENTER

John D. Anderson, Director

John D. Anderson is professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness and director of the Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence at the University of Arkansas, taking that position in January 2020. For over 20 years, John has worked as a professional agricultural economist in both academic and industry positions. His work has involved describing and assessing the farm- and sector-level impacts of policy, regulatory and market developments across a wide variety of agricultural commodities and markets. John has served as a faculty member, with primary appointments in Extension, at the University of Kentucky and Mississippi State University. From 2010 through 2016, he served as the deputy chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, DC. From 2016 through 2019, John was chair of the agriculture department at his alma mater, College of the Ozarks in Pt. Lookout, Missouri (BS, Agribusiness, 1992), where his responsibilities included general management of the school’s commercial farm operations. John received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Oklahoma State University in 1998. He is an Arkansas native, having grown up on a beef and poultry farm in Stone County.

Andrew M. McKenzie, Associate Director

Fryar Endowed Professor in Risk Management

Andrew McKenzie is a native of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. He specializes in price risk management, futures and options markets, grain marketing, and applied time series analysis. Andrew joined the faculty of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Arkansas in December 1998. His research interests include price risk management strategies, basis trading, grain marketing, price analysis in poultry and cattle markets, behavioral economics, and the informational role played by financial and commodity markets in transmitting price signals. He has published numerous journal articles about commodity futures markets and is a nationally recognized expert in grain basis trading. His research relating to financial and commodity futures market information and efficiency has been published in some of the most prestigious economics journals, including Journal of Applied Econometrics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Journal of Futures Markets.

Eunchun Park, Assistant Professor

Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Risk Analysis and Management

Park completed his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University in 2017 in agricultural economics. His research interests are mainly on applied econometrics and agricultural risk analysis, including crop insurance and commodity futures and options market. Much of his current work focuses on crop insurance rating and spatial smoothing using Bayesian inference. He is currently extending his work on the Bayesian modeling to density smoothing based on climate and soil type similarity

Andrew Anderson, Assistant Professor

Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness

Anderson completed his Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Kansas State University in 2023. Anderson’s research interests focus on applied price analysis, production economics and consumer demand.