markets have impacted the risk management strategies of agricultural producers, we surveyed the 1,015 graduates of the Texas A … training and experience in using futures and options for hedging. Besides collecting information on their current risk … management practices, we measured respondent views on the importance of key new sources of risk. On a 1 to 7 Likert scale with 1 …

forward pricing are commonly used concurrently to manage crop revenue risk, the optimal combinations of these tools are … ratio which maximizes the certainty equivalent of a risk averse producer. The results generally reveal a lower optimal hedge …

, Tennessee, and Virginia, taking into account the effect of wealth, revenue risk, and farm program provisions. Estimated …

management strategies under various risk preferences and utility-weighted certainty equivalent risk premiums. Yields, input rates …, risk analysis indicates CRP would be the preferred strategy for some risk-averse managers. …

Selecting the best wheat varieties affects producers’ profit and financial risk. This study identifies the optimal … wheat variety selection using the portfolio approach at various risk aversion levels. Results showed that the optimal wheat … variety selection was significantly affected by changes in levels of risk aversion of decision makers …