Modules

1. Managing Risks and Profits
   Robert Wisner, Iowa State University
   Darrel Good, University of Illinois

2. Climatic Change: Impacts on Grain Yields, Price Variability, and Risk Management
   S. Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University
   Jeffrey A. Andresen, Michigan State University

3. Financial Considerations in Managing Risks and Profits
   William Edwards, Iowa State University

4. Legal Considerations in Grain Contracting
   Leisa R. Boley, Ohio State University
   Neil E. Harl, Iowa State University

5. Risk, Probability, and Managing Income Variability
   Jim Hilker, Michigan State University
   Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University
   Roy Black, Michigan State University

6. Understanding the Three Components of Price Risks
   Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University
   Roy Black, Michigan State University
   Jim Hilker, Michigan State University

7. Risk Exposure and Risk Management with Various Grain Pricing Tools
   Darrel Good, University of Illinois
   Robert Wisner, Iowa State University

8. Basis, Localizing 1997 Grain Prices, and Returns to Storage
   Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University
   Robert Wisner, Iowa State University

9. Crop Insurance Alternatives
   William Edwards, Iowa State University
   Art Barnaby, Kansas State University

10. Corn Yield Futures and Options
    Sergio H. Lence, Iowa State University

11. Assessing Alternative Yield and Price Risk Management Tools For Corn and Soybeans
    Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University
    Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University

12. Alternative Yield and Price Risk Management Tools for Wheat
    George Flaskerud, North Dakota State University
    Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University
    Art Barnaby, Kansas State University

13. Risk-Management Choices for Individual Farm
    Phil Hufferd, Iowa State University
    Robert Wisner, Iowa State University
    Roy Black, Michigan State University

14. Pre-harvest Marketing Strategies May Increase Net Returns for Corn and Soybean Growers: Iowa and Ohio Case Study, 1985 - 1996
    Robert N. Wisner, Iowa State University
    E. Neal Blue, Ohio State University
    E. Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University

15. The Managing Risks and Profits Software Program
    E. Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University
    E. Neal Blue, Ohio State University
    Robert N. Wisner, Iowa State University

• Managing Risks and Profits Questionnaire

• Questionnaire Answers

• Supplementary Material________________________
  • GRAIN INDUSTRY PROFILE
    Robert Wisner, Iowa State University
    
    
  • Market Efficiency and Marketing to Enhance Income of Crop Producers
    Carl R. Zulauf, Ohio State University
    Scott H. Irwin, University of Illinois
    
    
  • Pre-harvest Marketing Strategies Increase Net Returns for Corn and Soybean Growers
    Robert N. Wisner, Iowa State University
    E. Neal Blue, Ohio State University
    E. Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University
    
    
  • Crop Insurance and Pre-harvest Pricing of Corn and Soybeans: Case Studies for Selected States and Farms
    Robert N. Wisner, Iowa State University
    E. Neal Blue, Ohio State University
    E. Dean Baldwin, Ohio State University
    G. Art Barnaby, Jr., Kansas State University
    Daniel O'Brien, Kansas State University
    
    
  • AgRisk Software Installation and Web Link
    
    
  • Web Links Categories << Click here to go to links in Supplementary Material Page
    • USDA Risk Management Agency / Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
    • Crop insurance companies and information
    • Futures exchanges
    • Current no-charge commercial market information and commentary
    • Research results on risk-management / Long-range projections
    • General and financial news
    • University market outlook and forecasts
    • USDA market outlook and projections
    • Historical and current crop & livestock data
    • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
    • Historical and current U.S. & global weather

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