Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 76 Issue 4

Modeling duration of FSA operating and farm ownership loan guarantees

Deng Long, Bruce L. Ahrendsen, Bruce L. Dixon, Charles B. Dodson

The purpose of this paper is to identify determinants of feasible outcome events (expired with no loss, settled for loss, still performing) and time to event of Farm Service…

FSA farm loan repayment under economic recession and drought conditions: Evidence from US Southeastern and Midwestern farms

Cesar Escalante, Minrong Song, Charles Dodson

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the repayment records of Farm Service Agency (FSA) borrowers in two distinct US farming regions that have been experienced serious drought…

Determinants of loan demand in agriculture: empirical evidence from Germany

Wilm Fecke, Jan-Henning Feil, Oliver Musshoff

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the influencing factors of loan demand in agriculture. With the structural changes that agriculture is undergoing and the…

Are African female farmers disadvantaged on the microfinance lending market?

Arieska Wening Sarwosri, Ulf Römer, Oliver Musshoff

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether social and/or cultural obstacles faced by African female farmers diminish their accessibility to lending opportunities provided by…

Does credit market inefficiency affect technology adoption? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting the adoption of agricultural technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically the role of credit market inefficiency…

Diversifying systemic risk in agriculture

Xiaoguang Feng, Dermot Hayes

Portfolio risk in crop insurance due to the systemic nature of crop yield losses has inhibited the development of private crop insurance markets. Government subsidy or reinsurance…

Dairy farm financial performance: firm, year, and size effects

Christopher A. Wolf, Mark W. Stephenson, Wayne A. Knoblauch, Andrew M. Novakovic

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate dairy farm financial performance over time utilizing farm financial ratios from three university business analysis programs. The…