Mortgage termination is important when considering risk management at financial institutions and can generally be of two types: default and prepayment. Data consisting of 1,060 fixed rate mortgages collateralized by farm real estate to dairy producers made by AgChoice ACA from January 1, 2001...

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Results of a study completed for Congress indicate direct program borrowers are more financially stressed than guaranteed borrowers and that many current farm loan program borrowers may not be able to continue farming, at least in the short-term, without access to government subsidized credit....

Land is the most important agricultural asset. Income risk due to farmland price volatility creates economic hardship for rural communities. Although inflation explains much of the farmland valuation problem, it remains to some extent a puzzle. We use wavelet-based statistical methods supported...