insurance to help mitigate farm risk. …

, a more sophisticated understanding of risk and risk management is important to help producers make better decisions in … risky situations and to assist policymakers in assessing the effectiveness of different types of risk protection tools. In … response, this report provides a rigorous, yet accessible, description of risk and risk management tools and strategies at the …

Nearly all farm business ventures involve financial risk. In some instances, private and public tools used to manage … financial risks and their unintended environmental consequences. Specifically, it examines the conceptual underpinnings of risk …-related research, challenges involved with measuring the consequences of risk for agricultural production decisions, government …

participate in insurance-type programs operated by USDA. This report traces the lack of use of such risk management measures to …

in a package of risk management tools available to farmers. Production contracts are used widely in livestock production …