Post Doctoral Fellow

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## Type of Position:
Researchers
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## Job Type:
Fixed Duration of Project/Grant (Fixed Term)
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## Institution Name:
Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is a state wide campus, with faculty based on University campuses, at Research and Extension Centers and in every Arkansas county. It consists of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) and the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service (CES), and is home to more than 1400 employees. The Division was established in 1959 and is headed by the Vice-President for Agriculture.

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## Department:
AEAB | Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
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## Summary of

Job Duties:

This position is a one-year postdoc appointment within the Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness starting January 2027. Relevant expertise for consideration includes price risk management; developing and applying derivatives in agricultural and related markets; behavioral economics approaches to risk assessment and management; agricultural finance; commodity marketing; or closely related disciplines. This position will be responsible for three distinct outputs:
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- Interactive Hedging Tool
Hedging decision tools for a broad range of row crop and livestock farm operations will be developed, and the tools will be made freely available from the Fryar Center website. Locking in profitable margins is a key aspect of farmer marketing, and the decision tools will guide farmers on what margins they may expect to earn based on a range of hedging strategies and market price outcomes.

Farmers will enter key variables through a user-friendly interface related to their expected outputs and inputs and their choice of marketing strategy. For example, a row crop farmer would enter information about their planted acres, expected yields, production costs/acre, storage costs, and basis levels in their local markets. Based on these variables, the decision tools will generate a range of potential profit margins and the associated likelihood of each outcome.

The tools will generate different market pricing outcomes based on current and…