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Managing the Risk - Capturing The Opportunity in Crop Farming

Michael Boehlje and, Brent Gloy (February, 2011)

Summary

Farming has always been a risky business with the returns to reward that risk available for only brief periods of time. The risk in agriculture today, particularly in crop production, is greater than it has been in the past, but there is opportunity to be rewarded for taking that risk. This brief article focuses on several management strategies farmers can implement in these increasingly turbulent times.