A relatively new price risk management tool available to livestock producers is livestock risk protection (LRP) offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

Economic conditions under which the 2012 farm bill is being discussed are different from previous farm bills.

The crop insurance revenue guarantee will fall but costs likely will remain high, at least initially. Potentially, this can expose producers to a large ...

The interest in flexible rents by landowners often is a result of a large rise in commodity prices, which has occurred this year.

Specialty crops play a major role in North Dakota’s agriculture.

The first step in assessing market conditions and assigning subjective probabilities to price movements is to become familiar with the underlying supply and ...

Farmers have experienced high demand and prices for their crops the past few years. However, farmers and experts agree that these conditions cannot be ...

The most important questions about ACRE enrollment are whether the state will be eligible for an ACRE payment and for how much.

The CTR will focus on risk and commodity trading, in addition to finance, portfolio analysis and management.

["Because the efficiency measures are on a scale, the extent of inefficiency associated with costs can be computed easily, which would be useful for producers ...