Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 83 Issue 1

The role of risk rationing in rural credit demand and uptake: lessons from Kyrgyzstan

Lena Kuhn, Ihtiyor Bobojonov

Lack of access to credit is commonly held responsible for slow agricultural and rural development in low- and middle-income countries. This paper aims to investigate the…

The impact of farm-level variables on federal crop insurance coverage selections

Mark Boyd, Eric Belasco

This paper examines the relationship between farm-level variables related to cash flow and premium rates on federal crop insurance coverage selection.

Trade credit from agrochemical vendors as an alternative source of finance for cabbage producers in the Bono East Region of Ghana

Ernest Christlieb Amrago, Nicholas Oppong Mensah

The purpose of this study is to examine trade credit from agrochemical vendors as an alternative source of finance for cabbage producers in the Bono East Region of Ghana. The…

Ad hoc government payments impact on non-real estate farm debt

Charles Martinez, Christopher N. Boyer, Tun-Hsiang Yu, S. Aaron Smith, Adam Rabinowitz

The authors examined the impact of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) and Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments to United States agricultural producers on…

Does access to agricultural credit help disaster-affected farming households to invest more on agricultural input?

Masaood Moahid, Ghulam Dastgir Khan, M.D. Abdul Bari, Yuichiro Yoshida

Natural calamities impair agricultural households' ability to invest in their farms. Facilitating access to agricultural credit may assist farmers in the face of negative revenue…

Business risk, financial risk and savings: does perceived higher business risk induce savings among small agricultural operations in the USA?

Sudip Adhikari, Aditya R. Khanal

The purpose of this paper is to present theoretical synopsis of risk balancing hypothesis (RBH) and estimate empirical models examining debt, savings and debt-to-equity use…

Financial literacy and its antecedents amongst the farmers: evidence from India

Sumit Kumar Maji, Arindam Laha

The article makes a modest attempt to explore the level of financial literacy (FL) amongst the farmers in India. An effort was also made to unearth the factors affecting such FL.

Financial exposure to environmental liabilities in Lake Huron drainage area farmlands: a GIS and hedonic pricing approach

Kenneth Hsien Yung Chung, Peter Adriaens

This paper aims to quantify the impact of environmental contamination on farmland valuation. It applies data fusion and hedonic pricing approaches to quantify the contribution of…

Online media in dairy markets: a US dairy futures market study

Mario Ortez, Nicole Olynk Widmar, Mindy Lyn Mallory, Christopher Allen Wolf, Courtney Bir

This article quantifies public sentiment for dairy products using online media and investigates potential relationships between online media, both volume and sentiment, and future…

Relationship of public farmland and timberland REITs with their private equity counterparts and selected asset classes

Srijana Baral, Bin Mei

The purpose of this study is to examine the return sensitivity of public farmland and timberland real estate investment trusts (REITs) to private-equity farmland, timberland and…