Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 83 Issue 3

Credit risk management in small-scale farming by formal financial institutions during the COVID-19 era: Nigerian perspective

Victoria Okpukpara, Benjamin Chiedozie Okpukpara, Emmanuel Ejiofor Omeje, Ikenna Charles Ukwuaba, Maryann Ogbuakanne

Providing loans, particularly to small-scale farmers, is one of the roles of formal financial institutions. Lending to small farmers is risky. An institution's health is closely…

Credit constraint and agricultural technology adoptions: evidence from Ethiopia

Megersa Endashaw Lemecha

This paper investigates constraints to yield enhancing technology adoptions, highlighting credit using data pooled from the first three waves of the Ethiopian socio-economic…

Systematic process for crop insurance development: area-yield rice insurance with machine learning technology implementation in Thailand

Krish Sethanand, Thitivadee Chaiyawat, Chupun Gowanit

This paper presents the systematic process framework to develop the suitable crop insurance for each agriculture farming region which has individual differences of associated…

Dual use insurance for annual forage producers: comparing risk management alternatives

Natalie A. Graff, Bart L. Fischer, Henry L. Bryant, David P. Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Dual Use (DU) Option – a crop insurance policy created by the 2018 Farm Bill – relative to other policies available to dual-purpose…

How does the financial performance of sugar-using firms compare to other agribusinesses? An accounting and economic profit rates analysis

Carlos J.O. Trejo-Pech, Karen L. DeLong, Robert Johansson

The United States (US) sugar program protects domestic sugar farmers from unrestricted imports of heavily-subsidized global sugar. Sugar-using firms (SUFs) criticize that program…

The effect of crop insurance in Ecuadorian rice farming: a technical efficiency approach

Marcelo Castro, Alvaro Reyes Duarte, Andrés Villegas, Luis Chanci

The aim of this study is to estimate the technical efficiency of the massive and economically important crop of rice in Ecuador, and then conduct a comparison between groups of…

Better performance after mergers and acquisitions? The case of US farmer cooperatives

Jasper Grashuis

This study analyzes the long-term effect of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity on the profitability, efficiency and liquidity of the largest 500 farmer cooperatives in the…

German farmers' perceived usefulness of satellite-based index insurance: insights from a transtheoretical model

Eike Florenz Nordmeyer, Oliver Musshoff

Index insurance is promising to mitigate drought-related income losses in agriculture. To reduce the basis risk of index insurance, the integration of satellite data is of growing…

Risk-adjusted farm returns and farm size

Ashraf M. Noumir, Michael R. Langemeier, Mindy L. Mallory

The average U.S. farm size has risen dramatically over the last three decades. Motives for this trend are the subject of a large body of literature. This study incorporates farm…