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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"crop insurance"”.
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Evaluating yield models for crop insurance rating
Crop insurance performance and loss rates depend directly on underlying crop yield distributions. However, there still exists much debate about how to represent the underlying crop yield distributions. Using farm-level corn and soybean yields from 1972-2008, this study examines in-sample …
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Impacts of crop insurance on cash rents
… the degree to which net payments from federal crop insurance products impact cash rents paid for farmland. A spatial panel model is employed to control for spatial dependence and heterogeneity in cash rental rates. Results show that producers factor a statistically significant proportion of the …
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Blockchain-enabled weather index crop insurance for smallholder farmers
Weather index crop insurance is an innovative approach to protect farmers against financial losses incurred due to adverse weather events that reduce crop yield. This type of insurance has the potential to be more affordable to underprivileged communities in emerging economies as it incurs lower …
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Three Essays on Systemic Risk and Rating in Crop Insurance Markets
The third essay examines the actuarial implications of the Loss Cost Ratio (LCR) ratemaking methodology employed by the Federal Government for setting base rates for the program, and identifies specific conditions required for the LCR methodology to result in unbiased rates. Specifically, constant …
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Three Essays on Crop Insurance: RMA's Rules and Participation, and Perceptions
… influence farmers’ decisions to participate in crop insurance programs. The factors considered are RMA rules and farmers’ yield perceptions. In particular, the first paper examined the role of Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) APH calculation rules on the performance, participation, and risk …
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Essays on U.S. agricultural policy : subsidies, crop insurance, and environmental auctions
… relative effects of ad hoc disaster payments and crop insurance, focusing on the potential to smooth income shocks, and the final chapter studies the targeting efficiency of the Conservation Reserve Program. Chapter one exploits exogenous variation in agricultural subsidies to measure the effects …
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The impact of crop insurance participation on farmers' use of marketing contracts
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Risk in agriculture : a study of crop yield distributions and crop insurance
Agriculture is a business fraught with risk. Crop production depends on climatic, geographical, biological, political, and economic factors, which introduce risks that are quantifiable given the appropriate mathematical and statistical methodologies. Accurate information about the nature of …
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Lender Response to Federal Crop Insurance: Their Effects on Farm Business Performance (Survey, Simulation Model)
… of farmers' participation in the Federal Crop Insurance program. Generally, these studies have implicitly assumed independence between participation in the program and the firm's financial organization. The objective of this study is to explore if a relationship exists and the possible …
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Marketing and crop insurance: a portfolio approach to risk management for Illinois corn and soybean producers
Little research has focused on understanding how crop insurance and preharvest pricing interact so as to reduce risk or increase returns more than either if used separately. Farm-level historical simulations from 1976 through 2008 were used to analyze several marketing strategies that use both …
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Ex-ante analysis of corn and soybean revenue in Illinois with crop insurance and government payment programs
… and risk have changed over time while using crop insurance and government payment programs. Historical simulations are constructed from 1989 to 2010 for corn and soybean producers in McLean County, Illinois, to measure the impact of crop insurance and government payments annually. Results …
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The role of interstate trade and crop insurance programs on the U.S. agriculture’s capacity to adapt to climate change
… essay studies the potential impacts of federal crop insurance program on farmers’ adaptation behavior. I extend the standard Ricardian framework to incorporate crop insurance. This extended Ricardian framework allows me to generate theoretical predictions on the changes in marginal effects of …
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Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
… Missouri’s six climate divisions and the use of crop insurance by farmers as a climate adaptation or risk management strategy. Crop insurance plays an important role in the process of adapting to climate change because it serves as a buffer against the impact of increasing extreme events. The …
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Risk management in crop farming
… the financial impacts caused by natural hazards, crop insurance is an appropriate tool (Di Falco et al., 2014). In addition to crop insurance purchase, to maximize agriculture’s mitigation potential regarding to weather-related risks, there is a need for investments in technological innovation and …
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An assessment of the impact of landscape soil, government programs and crop insurance on the profitability of perennial grass cropping systems grown for bioenergy
… study analyzes the profitability of those three cropping systems when grown for bioenergy relative to corn and soybeans. It uses a stochastic budgeting model with actual grain yields, FAPRI baseline prices, and ALMANAC modeled grass yields to demonstrate how landscape soils, government programs …
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Evaluating Commodity Farm Program Selection and Economic Return Variability on Representative Farms in the Mississippi River Delta Region Using a Risk Return Framework
… in the United States for the 2014 through 2018 crop years. The ultimate result of the Act was a 954-page piece of legislation that represented market-oriented policies such as the creation of an area-wide shallow loss revenue support program for covered commodities and a greater reliance on crop …
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Essays on the Economics of Policy and Regulation in Agricultural and Food Markets
… essay, in Chapter 3, I focus on the effects of crop insurance on the supply of specialty crops in the United States. I use a nationally-representative farm-level dataset to evaluate the impacts of crop insurance on the acreage and crop value of fruits and vegetables. The empirical strategy …
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Integrated production and marketing risk management for cash grain producers of Virginia's Northern Neck region:a target MOTAD analysis
… in government commodity programs and crop insurance programs. Unlike most previous studies which have treated the decision-making process as a single period process, this study formulates the problem as a recursive two-stage model. The mean forecast deviation approach was used to model …
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Assessing the Economic Viability of Arkansas Farms under the 2018 Farm Bill
… safety net. Commodity programs and federal crop insurance are two key components of today’s agricultural safety net, and many times, these programs may be the difference between a net loss and a positive net income for many producers. The objective of this study is to examine the safety net …
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Three essays on agricultural risk and insurance
… of this dissertation is agricultural risk and insurance in the United States. Chapter 2 examines welfare effects of the 2002 farm bill programs and yield insurance as well as their impacts on acreage decision of a representative Iowa farmer. Instead of measuring welfare using expected utility …
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