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CARD: Center for Agricultural and Rural Development

Agricultural Risk Management Policy

Actively managing risk is a relatively new concept for many crop and livestock producers and policymakers. To address the need for information and analysis on agricultural risk management policy, CARD Director Bruce Babcock has initiated a core area of research at CARD.

CARD's ARMP division assesses policies affecting valuation and risk management, government price support and disaster relief programs, and agricultural insurance and alternatives.

Highlights

Costs and Benefits of Moving to a County ACRE Program
Bruce A. Babcock
CARD Policy Brief 10-PB 2

The ACRE Decision (ppt) (presentation)
Bruce A. Babcock

Recent Papers

Native Grassland Conversion: the Roles of Risk Intervention and Switching Costs USDA PRC publication
Ruiqing Miao, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng
February 2013 [13-WP 536]

Updated Assessment of the Drought's Impacts on Crop Prices and Biofuel Production USDA PRC publication
Bruce A. Babcock
August 2012 [12-PB 8]

Recent Presentations

May 2011
Feeding Frenzy: Managing High Input Costs (pdf) 0.10 MB
Bruce A. Babcock
National Dairy Producers Conference, Omaha, Nebraska
February 2009
The ACRE Decision (ppt) 0.69 MB
Bruce A. Babcock
Presented at the North Dakota Corn Growers Association Annual Convention. Fargo, North Dakota