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Setting Risk Management Goals for Your Farm Business
There are four strategies that can be pursued to help manage farm business risks.
Evaluating a Farmer’s Risk Tolerance
Understanding how a farmer’s own risk preferences and that of others affect the risk management decisions made for the farm business is important.
Measuring Price Risk for Your Farm Business
Let’s look at the concept of price risk with an example of the average monthly corn prices in the United States.
Identifying the components and sources of risk on the farm
The greater the uncertainty, the greater the risk.
The more likely a negative factor will occur, the greater the risk potential.
A Brief History of Crop Insurance
The Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) provides insurance coverage for the production of most U.S. agricultural commodities against financial losses caused by adverse growing and market conditions.
A Brief History of Grain Markets
Grain markets have been noted in history as early as during the Roman Empire.