This study establishes which factors affect Southeast US farmers' ability to meet their loan repayment obligations within the stipulated loan term. The study uses a 10-year (2003-2012) pooled cross-sectional data from the USDA ARMS survey data (Phase III). A probit model is used to regress...

Inter-annual climate variability in the Southeastern US that affects farm productivity and cash flows is largely driven by the predictable El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the ENSO anomalies on the performance of agricultural loan...

The success of efforts to promote sustainability and growth of beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs) depends on a set of diverse factors whose individual impacts on the survival or exit from farming need to be examined. This paper evaluates how a variety of economic and demographic factors,...