Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 70 Issue 2

Financial barriers to the adoption of anaerobic digestion on US livestock operations

Brent A. Gloy, Jonathan B. Dressler

Anaerobic digestion (AD) of livestock waste is a potential source of renewable energy and can reduce the methane emissions associated with livestock waste storage. Because AD is…

Do lender‐imposed sweeps affect ethanol technology investment?

Jason Fewell, Cole Gustafson

New federal legislation proposes to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with biofuel production. To comply, existing corn ethanol plants will have to invest in new…

Cost evaluation of alternative switchgrass producing, harvesting, storing, and transporting systems and their logistics in the Southeastern USA

James A. Larson, Tun‐Hsiang Yu, Burton C. English, Daniel F. Mooney, Chenguang Wang

The US Department of Energy has a goal to make ethanol from biomass cost competitive with petroleum by 2012. Feedstock procurement is expected to represent a significant portion…

Small wind on the farm: a capital budgeting case study

Stephen B. Harsh, Lynn Hamilton, Eric Wittenberg

As the interest in renewable energy increases and the number of federal and state incentives to support renewable energy has also grown in recent years, it seems worthwhile to…

Tax‐deferred exchanges of farmland: theory and evidence from federal tax data

James M. Williamson, Michael P. Brady, Ron Durst

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), a piece of US tax law that allows for tax‐deferred exchanges of like‐kind…

Agricultural financial market segments

Maud Roucan‐Kane, Corinne Alexander, Michael D. Boehlje, Scott W. Downey, Allan W. Gray

For agricultural bankers, agribusiness managers, and salespeople, understanding customers and their preferences and behaviors is crucial to success. The two goals of this paper…

Inequality decomposition of farm family living expenditures and the role of the life cycle

Hisham S. El‐Osta

The purpose of this paper is to use data from the 2007 Agricultural Resource Management Survey to assess the inequality in the distribution of farm family living expenditures. The…

On the systemic nature of weather risk

Wei Xu, Guenther Filler, Martin Odening, Ostap Okhrin

The purpose of this paper is to assess the losses of weather‐related insurance at different regional levels. The possibility of spatial diversification of insurance is explored by…

Nonparametric estimation of market risk: an application to agricultural commodity futures

Abdoul G. Sam

While the extant literature is replete with theoretical and empirical studies of value at risk (VaR) methods, only a few papers have applied the concept of VaR to quantify market…

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