Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 80 Issue 5

Rating exotic price coverage in crop revenue insurance

A. Ford Ramsey, Sujit K. Ghosh, Barry K. Goodwin

Revenue insurance is the most popular form of insurance available in the US federal crop insurance program. The majority of crop revenue policies are sold with a harvest price…

Do farm service agency borrowers' double minority labels lead to more unfavorable loan packaging terms?

Jyotsna Ghimire, Cesar L. Escalante, Ramesh Ghimire, Charles B. Dodson

This study adds a new dimension in the study of racial and gender bias in farm lending. Most previous studies analyzed the separate effects of race and gender attributes on loan…

Duration analyses of precision agriculture technology adoption: what's influencing farmers' time-to-adoption decisions?

Eric Ofori, Terry Griffin, Elizabeth Yeager

Precision technologies have been available at the farm level for decades. Some technologies have been readily adopted, while the adoption of other technologies has been slower…

Farmers' preferences and willingness to pay for microcredit in Benin: results from in-the-field choice experiments in Benin

Tchekpo Fortune Ogouvide, Ygue Patrice Adegbola, Roch Cedrique Zossou, Afio Zannou, Gauthier Biaou

This document analyses farmers' preferences and willingness to pay (CAP) for microcredit, in order to facilitate their access in rural areas.

Premium misrating in federal crop insurance programs: scale, geography, and fiscal impacts

Zhangliang Chen, Sandy Dall'Erba, Bruce J. Sherrick

Federal crop insurance programs are the primary risk management programs of the US farm programs. Currently, these programs have been criticized for being disproportionally in…

Accrual income statements and present value models

Lindon J. Robison, Peter J. Barry

This paper demonstrates that present value (PV) models can be viewed as multiperiod extensions of accrual income statements (AISs). Failure to include AIS details in PV models may…

Benchmarking upper midwest dairy farm profitability

Christopher A. Wolf, J. Roy Black, Mark W. Stephenson

The purpose of this research is to understand US Upper Midwest dairy farm profitability performance over time and across herd size. Profitability is broken down into asset…

Uptake of insurance-embedded credit in presence of credit rationing: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Kenya

Michael K. Ndegwa, Apurba Shee, Calum G. Turvey, Liangzhi You

Drought-related climate risk and access to credit are among the major risks to agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers in Kenya. Farmers are usually credit-constrained…