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Oral Capps, Jr. is Professor and Holder of the Southwest Dairy Marketing Endowed Chair at Texas A&M University. He was educated at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he received his B.S. in mathematics in 1975, his M.S. in agricultural economics in 1977, and a second M.S. in statistics and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1979. He has been on the faculty at Texas A&M since 1986. Before coming to Texas A&M, he taught at Virginia Tech and the University of Minnesota.

Professor Capps teaches undergraduate and graduate courses with emphasis on demand and price analysis as well as agribusiness, agricultural marketing, and applied econometrics. His research centers on consumer demand analysis, agricultural marketing, and applied econometrics. He is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in demand analysis, specializing in working with large data bases. In addition, Professor Capps specializes in unilateral price effects of mergers and acquisitions, and evaluation of commodity check off programs. He has authored more than one hundred articles in refereed journals and coauthored four books.

Professor Capps has received numerous awards over his career. He was the 2002 recipient of the Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence for Research at Texas A&M University and the 2003 recipient of the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching at the College Level. In 2006, Professor Capps was appointed to the National Academies Committee on the Economic Development and Current Status of the Sheep Industry in the United States. In 2007, he was co-recipient of the American Agricultural Economics Association President's Award "for initiative, risk, imagination, and labor in improving, redesigning, and expanding the outreach organ of the Association, Choices, and in so doing, communicating the economic implications of food, farm, resource, and rural community issues to a wider audience."