Dr. Deacue Fields was appointed to the position of Vice President for Agriculture of the University of Arkansas System on July 1, 2022. As Vice President, he is responsible for leading the University System’s coordinated agriculture program including the Cooperative Extension Service and the Agriculture Experiment Station. With almost 1,200 employees, the Division has faculty and facilities located across the state, including a presence in all 75 counties. The Division has a unique mission of serving the statewide agriculture community in Arkansas.

Prior to this role, Dr. Fields served as Dean and Senior Associate Vice President Academics for the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and Division of Agriculture at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He was a faculty member at Auburn University from 2002 to 2018 and served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology from 2013 to 2018. He received his B.S. degree (1993) from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his
M.S. degree (1995) from University Missouri, Columbia, and a Ph.D. (2002) from Louisiana State University, all in Agricultural Economics.
In his spare time, he enjoys traveling with family, sports, fishing, and showing livestock.

He is married to Dana, and they have three sons.