Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 75 Issue 2

Enhancing food security with Islamic microfinance: insights from some recent experiments

Mohammed Obaidullah

Islamic microfinance institutions (IsMFIs) have used diverse models and tools, as they seek to provide financial and non-financial support to the farming communities. A majortity…

US agricultural support programs and ethanol policies effects on farmland values and rental rates

Jaclyn Kropp, Janet G. Peckham

In recent years, prices for prime farmland have increased substantially, begging the question is the dramatic increase the result of a speculative bubble or consistent with market…

Does weather matter? How rainfall affects credit risk in agricultural microfinance

Niels Pelka, Oliver Musshoff, Ron Weber

Small-scale farmers in developing countries are undersupplied with capital. Although microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become well established in developing countries, they…

Valuing new random genetically modified (GM) traits with real options: The case of drought-tolerant wheat

William Wilson, Sumadhur Shakya, Bruce Dahl

The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical model to value traits at different developmental phases and to determine the value of drought tolerance (DT) in wheat using…

Fair value: model proposal for the dairy sector

Jonas da Silva Oliveira, Graça Maria do Carmo Azevedo, Cláudia da Silva Amaral Santos, Sandra Cristina Santos Vasconcelos

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it intends to assess the level of comparability of the fair value-based valuation criteria for biological assets of Portuguese dairy…

The cooperative capital constraint revisited

Ziran Li, Keri L Jacobs, Georgeanne M Artz

There is little reason a priori to expect that a cooperative firm’s capital needs are different from a non-cooperative firm’s needs if the two firms are otherwise similar in…

An equity management and planning tool for cooperatives

Jeffrey Royer

The purpose of this paper is to describe an equity management and planning tool used by rural electric cooperatives (RECs) and based on the times-interest-earned ratio (TIER). The…

On the relationship between financial and non-financial factors: A case study analysis of financial failure predictors of agribusiness firms in Australia

Nigel Purves, Scott James Niblock, Keith Sloan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of non-financial and financial factors to firm survival, provide evidence of factors related to financial success and…