This study compares the effectiveness of two crop insurance plans: an individual farm-yield measurement similar to the current Federal Crop Insurance Corporation multi-peril program and an area-yield measurement method. These methods are examined for reduction in yield and gross farm income...

This study compares the effectiveness of five crop insurance/disaster assistance plans: an individual farm yield insurance plan similar to the current FCIC multi-peril program ; two area yield insurance plans; a farm yield disaster assistance plan; and an area yield disaster assistance plan....

The purpose of this report is to provide a revised version of the publication, "Mathematical Formulas for Calculating Net Returns from Participation in Government Commodity Programs including Marketing Loans" (Williams and Barnaby, 1994). The change in design of the government commodity programs...

Six rotations, four of which include a sequence of wheat followed immediately after harvest by double-cropped soybeans, are evaluated with the option of participating in the government commodity program. Stochastic dominance analysis is used to evaluate these rotations for net return risk....

Establishment of efficient farm irrigation practices is influenced by the knowledge the irrigator has concerning both the economic and technological aspects of irrigation. The eventual goal of water conservation research is to have water users establish conservation techniques as parts of their...

Three tillage systems: conventional tillage, ridge tillage and notillage are evaluated using stochastic dominance with respect to a function analysis. Each tillage system is evaluated for three cropping patterns: continuous grain sorghum, continuous soybeans, and soybeans after grain sorghum....