policy from income support to risk management. A mix of price- and revenue-based commodity programs as well as yield- and … revenue-based insurance products provide crop producers a complex portfolio of risk management tools and choices. To make … effective risk management decisions, crop producers must integrate farm programs and crop insurance alternatives in a …

In the past three decades, farm families have relied on government payments and off-farm income to reduce income risk …

expected utility maximization framework is set up to analyze the trade-offs between higher risk protection and larger subsidy …

management strategy for several levels of risk aversion. Research Methods Hard red winter wheat grain yield data were produced in … included the per acre cost of chemical as well as the per acre rental rate for ground application. Risk analysis was conducted … treatment cost that would entice wheat producers to use fungicide for several levels of risk aversion. Potential for Generating …

Risk management and efficient, well coordinated, flow-scheduling have an increasingly important role in the competitive … of pig and sow space unit under price risk. The values are estimated with two stochastic dynamic programming models. The …

than ever before with crops that reduce production risk by tolerating climate fluctuation or resisting biotic stresses …. Will poor farmers who could benefit most from less vulnerability choose to purchase such risk-reducing seeds? I use data … distribution but seem indifferent about changes in higher moments of the distribution. Farmer traits such as wealth and risk …

can use information regarding how producers rate the importance of certain areas of risk and what takes most of the … various areas of risk. The results provide insights to agribusinesses that can help them identify producer segments. …