Michael Boland

Education

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, Purdue University 1996

M.S. Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

M.Ed. Agricultural Education, University of Minnesota

B.A. Business Administration, College of St. Thomas

Areas of Interest

Agribusiness, Cooperatives, Industrial Organization

Professor and Director, The Food Industry Center

317B Ruttan Hall

Department of Applied Economics

1994 Buford Avenue

St. Paul, MN 55108

boland@umn.edu

+1 612 625 3013

Subject Areas

Agribusiness

Cooperatives

Industrial Organization

Teaching

On-campus teaching
APEC 3511 Retail Supermarket Case Analysis
APEC 3811 Principles of Farm Management
APEC 3841/5841 Agricultural Cooperatives and Mutuals
APEC 5831 Food and Agribusiness Marketplace
APEC 5832 The Business of Food
IFSL 70411
LAW 6807 Cooperatives and Collective Entrepreneurship: Law, Policy and Practice

Off-campus teaching
Teach modules on governance, finance, and strategy to cooperative boards of directors; food price outlook

My textbook on cooperatives "An Introduction to Cooperation and Mutualism" can be downloaded or purchased via UMN Libraries.

Research

Economic issues affecting managerial decisions of agribusiness and food industry managers. These include issues related to occupational health and safety, cooperative governance and finance and case studies of managerial decision-making and the industrial organization of the industry in which they operate.

Extension and Outreach

Biography (PDF)

I teach a six course curriculum on finance, governance, and strategy for directors of cooperatives which are offered to more than 500 directors annually. In addition, I serve and teach on planning committees across North America for a number of executive education programs for agribusiness professionals and cooperative managers and directors. These programs are joint with CoBank, CHS, Land O'Lakes, and other firms. Universities I collaborate with on education include UM's Carlson School of Management, Kansas State University, University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska, Montana State University, Oklahoma State, and University of California - Davis.

Awards

International Education Award, Kansas State University, 2009.

Select Publications

Making sustainability tangible: Land O'Lakes and the dairy supply chain
Boland, Michael; Cooper, Brendan; White, James M.
IN: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Advance Access. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aav062, November 26, 2015

The determinants of price adjustments in retail supermarkets
Volpe, Richard; Risch, Corey C.; Boland, Michael A.; Leinweber, Martin
IN: Managerial and Decision Economics, Early View. DOI:10.1002/mde.2737, June 2, 2015

Making Sustainability Tangible: Land O'Lakes and the Dairy Supply Chain
White, James M.; Boland, Michael
Select paper presented at the 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28, 2015.

Determinants of occupational safety in agribusiness workers.
Risch, Corey; Boland, Michael A.; John M. Crespi, and Martin Leinweber.
IN: Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, v.3, pp.546-559, 2014.

Minnesota township mutual fire insurance: determinants of survival, 1974 – 2010
White, James M.; Boland, Michael A.
IN: Journal of Cooperatives, v.28, 2014, pp.1-26

Measuring sunk costs in the agricultural and food industry: why some assets sell below appraisal
Boland, Michael A.; Crespi, John M.; Turner, Tracy M.
IN: Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, v. 12, 2014, pp.53-63.

Survival of U.S. sugar beet plants from 1897 to 2011
Risch, Corey; Boland, Michael A.; John M. Crespi.
IN: Agribusiness: An International Journal, v.30, 2014, pp.1-14.

Understanding nonqualified distributions
Kenkel, Phil; Boland, Michael A.; Barton, David.
IN: The Cooperative Accountant, v.LXVII, 2014, pp.2-10.