Dr. Deacue Fields was appointed vice president for agriculture of the 自拍流出 Division of Agriculture on July 1, 2022.聽 He is responsible for leading the university鈥檚 coordinated agriculture program including the Cooperative Extension Service and the Agriculture Experiment Station.
Fields was appointed Bumpers College dean in 2017. He came to聽Arkansas after serving as professor and chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics and聽Rural Sociology at Auburn University since August 2013. He joined the faculty at Auburn in 2002 and was promoted to associate professor in 2007, an聽appointment that also included extension duties. He has also worked as an assistant professor and聽director of small farm outreach at Florida A&M University, and as a graduate research fellow in聽the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Louisiana State University.
He earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1993,聽his master鈥檚 degree from the University of Missouri in 1995 and his doctorate from LSU in 2002,聽all in agricultural economics.