Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 63 Issue 2

Modeling changes in the U.S. demand for crop insurance during the 1990s

Teresa Serra, Barry K. Goodwin, Allen M. Featherstone

The crop insurance purchase decision for a group of Kansas farmers is analyzed using farm‐level data from the 1990s, a period that experienced many changes in the federal crop…

Could the government manage its exposure to crop reinsurance risk?

Dermot J. Hayes, Sergio H. Lence, Chuck Mason

This study estimates the probability density function of the government’s net income from reinsuring crop insurance for corn, wheat, and soybeans. Based on 1997 data, it is…

Adoption of crop versus revenue insurance: a farm‐level analysis

Ashok K. Mishra, Barry K. Goodwin

This research examines factors influencing the adoption of crop and revenue insurance. This is accomplished by estimating a multinomial logit model of insurance choices facing…

Financial management practices and farm profitability

Brent A. Gloy, Eddy L. LaDue

The adoption of several basic financial management practices is examined for a group of New York dairy farms. The study provides estimates of the extent to which various business…

Post‐merger performance of agricultural cooperatives

Timothy J. Richards, Mark R. Manfredo

During the 1990s, the rate of consolidation among agricultural cooperatives, including mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures, increased significantly…

Explaining county‐level variability in farm service agency farm loan programs

Charles B. Dodson, Steven R. Koenig

USDA direct and guaranteed farm loan programs exhibit significant geographical variation in lending activity. County‐level estimations made using Tobit procedures indicate that…