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 …

patronage, infrastructure investment, and equity retirement improve member returns but increase stock write downs and negative …

daily returns of the S&P 500 and an index of agribusiness stocks from 1970 through 2008 using copulas. We find significant …

, Tennessee, and Virginia, taking into account the effect of wealth, revenue risk, and farm program provisions. Estimated …

management strategies under various risk preferences and utility-weighted certainty equivalent risk premiums. Yields, input rates …, and field operations from an experimental field in western Kansas are used to calculate net returns for each tillage … strategy. Although current net returns to crop production using reduced tillage and no-tillage strategies are higher than CRP …

Selecting the best wheat varieties affects producers’ profit and financial risk. This study identifies the optimal … wheat variety selection using the portfolio approach at various risk aversion levels. Results showed that the optimal wheat … variety selection was significantly affected by changes in levels of risk aversion of decision makers …