Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 75 Issue 4

Decoupling direct payments: potential impacts of the 2014 farm bill on farm debt

Anton Bekkerman, Eric Belasco, Amy Watson

For over 20 years, decoupled agricultural support programs have played a large role in farm policy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of decoupled…

Farm household risk balancing: implications for policy from an EU perspective

Erwin Wauters, Yann de Mey, Frankwin van Winsen, Steven Van Passel, Mark Vancauteren, Ludwig Lauwers

Building on the risk balancing theory and on recent discussions the appropriateness of using farm income maximization as behavioural assumption, this paper extends the risk…

Reconciling information gaps in organic farm borrowers’ dealings with farm lenders

Ghangela Jones, Cesar Escalante, Hofner Rusiana

Organic outputs have been increasing at much lower rates than growth in consumer demand. Organic farmers’ debt aversion hinders them from obtaining business funds through…

Modeling the impact of distance between offices and borrowers on agricultural loan volume

Taylor Witte, Eric A DeVuyst, Brian Whitacre, Rodney Jones

Farm Credit is a major provider of credit to agricultural producers in Oklahoma and nationally. The decision to place a new Farm Credit office reduces borrower search and travel…

Consistent IRR and NPV rankings

Lindon J. Robison, Peter J. Barry, Robert J. Myers

It is well known that internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV) rankings of mutually exclusive investments are sometimes inconsistent. This inconsistency, when it…

Adoption of labor-enhancing technologies by specialty crop producers: The case of the Washington apple industry

R. Karina Gallardo, Michael P. Brady

The purpose of this paper is twofold, first: to define the profile of adopters of labor-enhancing technologies (e.g. platforms) identifying factors – such as operations size, mix…

Self-insurance and multi-peril grassland crop insurance: the case of French suckler cow farms

Claire Mosnier

From the perspectives of the probable replacement of the national calamity funds by multi-peril grassland insurance, the purpose of this paper is to estimate demand for grassland…

Predictability of sugar futures: evidence from the Indian commodity market

Prabhati Kumari Misra, Kishor Goswami

The forecasting power of commodity futures is a matter of intensive research as evidenced by a number of related publications. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how…