Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 76 Issue 2

Evaluating Alberta cattle feeders’ loan guarantee program

Edgar Edwin Twine, James Unterschultz, James Rude

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Alberta’s cattle loan guarantee program. It measures the risk premiums on lending that would accrue to banks participating in the program…

Analyzing the agricultural value chain financing: approaches and tools in India

Vighneswara Swamy, Dharani M

The global demand for food is expected to increase by 60 percent by 2050 when the world’s population reaches 9.1 billion. To meet this challenge significant investment in the…

The impact of the Food Safety and Modernization Act on firm value

Mark Steven Johnson, Tolani Lawson

The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of the passage and signing of P.L. 111-353, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), on the market value of agribusiness…

Tax policy and farm capital investment: Section 179 expensing and bonus depreciation

James M Williamson, Sarah Stutzman

– The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of Internal Revenue Code cost recovery provisions – Section 179 and “bonus depreciation” – on farm capital investment.

Land titles and formal credit in Thailand

Soontaree Sakprachawut, Damien Jourdain

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of land titles and farmers’ characteristics on their participation in the formal credit market in a land reform area of…

Agricultural productivity, credit and farm size nexus in Africa: a case study of Ghana

Mamudu Abunga Akudugu

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections of agricultural productivity, access to credit and farm size in Africa using Ghana as a case study.

Agricultural credit and technical efficiency in Ghana: is there a nexus?

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of agricultural credit on technical efficiency of Ghanaian maize farmers using a unique dataset drawn from the database of…