The financial performance and relationships between several management factors and farm financial performance are examined in a panel data set of 107 New York dairy farms. The overall level of compound and annual return on assets of the farms considered in this study was quite low. However, the...

Detailed customer loan records were used to investigate the profitability of agricultural lending relationships. Analyses consider a variety of factors that influence the costs and returns associated with agricultural lending relationships. Among other things, the results provide evidence of...

Loan records and lender credit risk classifications are used to examine agricultural credit risk migration. The results include estimates of the likelihood of borrowers transitioning among five credit risk tiers. The paper also examines factors that influence or predict credit risk migration and...

Several criteria that produce rankings of risk management alternatives are evaluated. The criteria considered are Value at Risk, the Sharpe ratio, the necessary condition for first degree stochastic dominance with a risk free asset, and the necessary condition for second degree stochastic...

The stochastic dominance with a risk free asset (SDRA) criteria are evaluated. Results show that the inclusion of the risk free asset (combined with the traditional assumptions of stochastic dominance) produce risk efficiency criteria that are very powerful at narrowing the risk management...

The study presents stochastic optimal control/dynamic programming (SOC/DP) to derive the optimal debt level and consumption in farm models concerning two sources of uncertainty: the return on assets and interest rate. The SOC/DP analytic framework is used to analyze the impacts of risk-reducing...