Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 65 Issue 2

Factors affecting farm credit use

Ani L. Katchova

This study analyzes the personal and farm characteristics that influence the use of farm credit, the degree of indebtedness, and debt consolidation for U.S. farms. Whereas…

Farm financial structure

Allen M. Featherstone, Gregory A. Ibendahl, J. Randy Winter, Aslihan Spaulding

The structure of U.S. agriculture is a topic of relevance to farmers, policy makers, farm organizations, and academics. Over the last century, farm financial structure issues have…

Farmland valuation and asset performance

Charles B. Moss, Ani L. Katchova

The first theme addressed in this paper is agricultural asset performance. The low rate of return on agricultural assets has been of particular interest to policy makers. From a…

Risk management by farmers, agribusinesses, and lenders

Ashok K. Mishra, Sergio H. Lence

Producers and lenders seek to avoid agricultural production‐related risks through various managerial and institutional mechanisms. For individual farmers and agribusinesses, risk…

U.S. macroeconomic and tax policy: impacts on U.S. farm operations

Ted Covey, Ron Durst, Jim Ryan

Agricultural economists have generally concluded that macroeconomic and tax policy matters regarding the financial wellbeing of U.S. farm operations. Farm operations react more…

Research on USDA farm credit programs: past, present, and future

Bruce L. Ahrendsen, Charles B. Dodson, Bruce L. Dixon, Steven R. Koenig

Federal farm credit programs currently administered by the USDA were initiated in the early 1900s to help the farm sector cope with natural disasters, and these programs have…

Structure, performance, and risk management of financial institutions

Paul N. Ellinger, Valentina Hartarska, Christine Wilson

The performance, management, and risk exposure of financial institutions operating in rural and agricultural markets determine the cost of agriculture’s ongoing access to…

Credit risk assessment

Cole R. Gustafson, Glenn D. Pederson, Brent A. Gloy

Lenders, regulatory agencies, and investors have increased their demand for credit risk exposure information to appropriately price risk and evaluate risk migration patterns that…

Developments in portfolio management and risk programming techniques for agriculture

Calum G. Turvey, Cesar L. Escalante, William Nganje

This paper reviews various optimization approaches used to address a variety of issues related to risk in agricultural finance and farm management. The central focus is in the…