The primary objective of this research is to integrate various avenues of risk management to provide a unified risk management strategy for the Kentucky producer. In addition the optimal insurance purchasing behavior and the impact of moral hazard on the optimal decisions of producers across...

This paper introduces a simple method of price risk decomposition that determines the extent to which producer price risk is attributable to volatile inter-market margins, intra-day variation, intra-week (day of week) variation, or seasonality. We apply the method to livestock markets in...