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April 22, 2022
Livestock Insurance
risk … 1
What is Price Risk?
PriceRisk Management for Cow-Calf Producers … Farmers and ranchers face risk every day. Individual producers …
December 1, 2015
KFMA Newsletters
As I write this, there are piles of grain on the ground in many areas of the state, market prices for grain below the cost of
production, uncertainty in the tax laws as we plan for the end of the year, reduced working capital and eroding debt
repayment capacity for many farms... all part of the current agriculture management environment. These are also
reminders to each of us of the importance of careful planning and consideration as management decisions are made.
Those of us working within the KFMA program and in the Agricultural Economics Department greatly appreciate the
efforts of those working on the farms and ranches of Kansas. We are thankful for the opportunity to provide farm
management information to farm decision makers through this newsletter and through delivery of the KFMA Program.
The KFMA motto is “Building Strong Relationships…Producing Excellence” and we desire to use this newsletter as a way
of building our relationship with you and to provide you with information that helps you achieve excellence. The KFMA
E‐Newsletter is sent quarterly throughout the year. This issue provides information on farm profitability, measuring
financial health, and the importance of understanding your farm’s current financial position and debt repayment ability.
Finally, we provide you with some guidance toward year‐end tax planning and management.
Further information can be found on the extension agricultural economics website at www.agmanager.info and the
KFMA website at www.agmanager.info/kfma. I would welcome any comments that you feel will be helpful for the KFMA
program to excel in our work with the farm families of Kansas as we seek to help you know your numbers, use your
numbers, and reach your goals. Till next time…
Kevin
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August 1, 2021
Breakout Sessions
Cordon Rowley, MS Student
2021 KSU Risk and Profit Conference
Outline
• … Federal insurance options are
becoming more favorable
https://www.ksre.k‐state.edu/news/stories/2021/01/beef‐cattle‐winter‐ranch‐management‐series.html
Cow‐calf insurance options by type of risk
Production
FeedPrice
LRP …
2021 Risk and Profit Conference Recordings
Cordon Rowley, MS Student
2021 KSU Risk and Profit Conference
Outline
• … Federal insurance options are
becoming more favorable
https://www.ksre.k‐state.edu/news/stories/2021/01/beef‐cattle‐winter‐ranch‐management‐series.html
Cow‐calf insurance options by type of risk
Production
FeedPrice
LRP …
September 1, 2021
Livestock Insurance, 2021 Ag Lenders Conference Presentations
Many insurance options for cow‐calf producers, most protect against feed/forage price risk and market price risk• Many options are “index based” • … Many options are “index based” • LRP – Livestock Risk Protection – has been improving and may be worth consideration for feeder cattle
Why formally insure?
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October 1, 2021
2021 Crop Insurance Workshop Presentations
High use: MPCI
https://agmanager.info/crop‐insurance/crop‐insurance‐papers‐and‐information/livestock‐insurance‐and‐lrp
Source: USDA Economic Research Service
Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance
• … Producers must insure at least 2, 2‐month intervals: summer months typically correspond with higher rainfall‐related risk (May‐July), winter months tend to have higher indemnities• …
August 20, 2013
Land Buying and Valuing
mathematics used in this paper can be handled with a
pencil … handled with a
pencil and paper and personal calculator … uncovered or developed in this paper should be invaluable to anyone …
June 20, 2016
Financial Management
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Management Factors: What is Important, Costs, Yields, Prices, or
Production Practices?
Cooper Morris (cooper.h.morris@gmail.com), Elizabeth Yeager (eyeager@ksu.edu), Kevin Dhuyvetter
(kdhuyvetter@elanco.com), and Greg Regier (gregier@ksu.edu).
Kansas State University Department of Agricultural Economics ‐ June 2016
http://www.agmanager.info/farmmgt/finance/management/MgtFactors05‐14_(Jun16).pdf
This …
January 1, 2009
Animal ID & Traceability
The first set of scenarios compare doing nothing (status quo) to adopting
full animal tracing for just the bovine sector. The bovine sector is the
focus here because it is it the sector among bovine, porcine, ovine, and
poultry that would incur the largest adoption cost of NAIS practices.
Under the status quo scenarios, we further explore what the impacts are
if by doing nothing we also lose export market access. We are likely to
lose export market access over time if we do not adopt NAIS practices,
even without any major market or major animal disease event, because
the international marketplace is making animal identification and tracing
systems the norm and any country that does not conform will have less
market access.
Table 2 summarizes the total loss per head to producers in the beef
sector, after all markets adjust as a result of not adopting NAIS practices
(i.e., status quo) under 0%, 10%, 25%, and 50% permanent export
market losses for beef. If we do nothing to adopt NAIS, and nothing
happens to export markets, the result is no cost, no market loss. If we do
nothing and we lose market access, which we believe is likely, the beef
industry will suffer losses. The losses would amount to $18.25 per head if
we do not adopt NAIS and we lose 25% of export market share. To put
this into perspective, this would be about like losing access to the South
Korean export market at 2003 export market shares.
Table 2. Net Annual Loss in Beef Producer Surplus from Status Quo
with Varying Export Market Losses
Export Market Loss Incurred
0% …
November 1, 2009
Pork Quality Grading System and Wholesale Pork Price Reporting
to the reported
findings presented here. Pork industry stakeholders … upon
request. Opinions presented in this report are solely … research in
livestock market risk
management, beef demand …