Critical factors affecting risk and profitability for cattle owners under contract grazing include cattle weight at …

managers on performance of agricultural cooperatives. That data originated from a mail survey and personal interviews among … impact on performance while more frequent engagement of the managers in strategic planning, higher level of managers’ job …

Using a non-parametric linear programming approach, our contribution is (1) to examine the impact of incorporating risk … in efficiency analysis and (2) to compare the efficiency measures with and without risk for continuous and rotation … gains are realized with the incorporation of risk. The t-test at the 5% level of significance examining if efficiency …

farmers’ risk preferences. SERF is a valuable tool because it incorporates a utility function and a range of decision …-maker risk preferences. Data from two production experiments were used: 1) research trials at the University of Florida’s farm … research trials show that for both diseases and cultivars, the SAS-based method is the most preferred given any farmers’ risk …