Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 69 Issue 1

Biography: Agricultural Finance Review

Calum G. Turvey

This paper aims to provide a “biography” of sorts on Agricultural Finance Review. The paper tracks the evolution of Agricultural Finance Review from its introduction in 1938 to…

Farm‐mortgage indebtedness shows further decline

Donald C. Horton, E.J. Engquist

Using real options to evaluate ethanol plant expansion decisions

Glenn Pederson, Tianyu Zou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to incorporate market price risk into investment decisions. The investigation focuses on investments to expand ethanol production…

The impact of ethanol plants on cropland values in the great plains

Jason Henderson, Brent A. Gloy

Corn ethanol plants consume large amounts of corn and their location has the potential to alter local crop prices and surrounding agricultural land values. The purpose of this…

Regional differences in agricultural profitability, government payments, and farmland values: Implications of DuPont expansion

Ashok K. Mishra, Charles B. Moss, Kenneth W. Erickson

The purpose of this paper is to use the DuPont expansion to examine those factors underlying differences in (rates of) return on different crop portfolios over space (ten regions…

Are the poor really more trustworthy? A micro‐lending experiment

Jaclyn D. Kropp, Calum G. Turvey, David R. Just, Rong Kong, Pei Guo

This paper aims to clarify the relationship between wealth and trustworthiness with the goal of understanding why micro‐lending institutions grant loans to poor individuals…

Farm credit member‐borrowers' preferences for patronage payments

Brian Briggeman, Quatie Jorgensen

Many associations in the Farm Credit System, which are financial cooperatives, pay their member‐borrowers a cash patronage payment based on the amount of loan volume with the…

Crop insurance in malting barley: a stochastic dominance analysis

William Wilson, Cole Gustafson, Bruce Dahl

Malting barley is an important specialty crop in the Northern Plains and growers mitigate risk with federally subsidized crop insurance and production contracts. The purpose of…

Factors affecting crop insurance purchase decisions by farmers in northern Illinois

Matthew Ginder, Aslihan D. Spaulding, Kerry W. Tudor, J. Randy Winter

The purpose of this paper is to determine which factors are most influential to farmers' crop insurance purchasing decisions in northern Illinois.

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