Weather index-based crop insurance offers farmers a way to mitigate production risk without the moral hazard, adverse selection and high administrative cost problems that plague conventional loss-based crop insurance. This is especially important for developing countries that lack government...

Downsizing the replications of an agricultural experiment altered profit and utility rankings of different cropping systems less than cutting the duration of the experiment. However, failing to plant all crops in a rotation each year altered economic rankings the most. Estimates of system profit...