This study evaluates both the profitability and risk efficiency of grazing stocker steers on conservation tillage …. Stocker steer net return distributions by tillage treatment are constructed and ranked for risk efficiency using SERF. The … results indicate the NT system is the most profitable and most risk efficient of the three tillage systems, followed by the RT …

restoration and maintenance, land use, and degree of risk aversion are important factors in a landowner’s decisions to invest in …

and increased dark cutter incidence associated with heifers relative to steers creates additional financial risk when …

Kruse, 2006). Although the federal government provides flood insurance programs and encourages at-risk residents to insure … risk preferences and perceptions. Data on flood coverage level and the above explanatory variables were obtained via … positively affected by the individual’s risk perception, their risk preference, whether or not they have a mortgage, flood zone …

This study compares farm operators’ risk perceptions and actual realization of risk attitudes revealed through off … that risk loving farmers are more likely to employ risk management strategies. …

cumulative distribution functions of whole-farm returns according to specified risk preferences. The results indicate NT farms …