The U.S. government has been extensively involved in providing income support and risk management policies for U ….S. farmers over the last 65 years. Risk management policies have included crop insurance, disaster relief, and in recent years … shortfalls and risk in agriculture. Problems and inconsistencies with policies are identified and discussed. Implications for …

financial situation of individual farm businesses and households, sources of risk in farm returns, and production practices that …

. Distortions at the extensive margin may arise as acreage decisions reflect the presence of subsidized risk management, resulting …

Risk Management Agency, building upon standard maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation techniques that consider …

The objective of this study is to evaluate and model the yield risk associated with major agricultural commodities in … because of technological progress and changing environmental conditions. Precise risk assessment depends on the accuracy of …

The objective of this study is to evaluate the risk associated with major agricultural commodity yields in the United …

the risk of revenue variability that arises from changes in prices, yields shortfalls or both. There are several models … for price and yield risk factors for corn and soybeans. For instance, yield risks can be modeled by a family of Beta … preserves a given set of marginals, a copula approach can be used to characterize the joint yield and price risk of corn and …