Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Business meeting agenda

• Updated the renewal process: Proposal submitted.
• Discussed future meeting venues: Positive feedback on this meeting/KC Fed; discussed other possibilities
• Leadership structure
  • Currently 2 years of Program Chair + 2 years of Accommodation Chair
  • Possibly reforming to having separate roll-outs for two chairs

Throughout the project period, the group successfully held four annual meetings with many participants and high quality presentations. The group members utilized the meetings as collaboration opportunities resulting in many high impact studies and on-going projects. Selected publications from the group members are reported in the publication section. 

Adkins, K., C.N. Boyer, S.A. Smith, A.P. Griffith, and A. Muhammad. 2020. “Analyzing Corn and Cotton Producers Optimal Prevented Planting Decision on Moral Hazard.” Agronomy Journal 112(3):2047-2057. (Link)

Boyer, C.N., and A.P. Griffith. 2021. “Livestock Risk Protection for Feeder Cattle during COVID-19.” Choices Quarter 4. (Link)

Boyer, C.N., A.P. Griffith, and K.L. DeLong. 2021. “Evaluating Optimal Purchasing and Selling Decisions of Beef Cattle Replacement Females.” Agricultural Finance Review 81(3):430-443. (Link)

Boyer, C.N., K. Burdine, J. Rhinehart, and C. Martinez. 2021. “Replacing Late Calving Beef Cows to Shorten Calving Season.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 43(2):228-241. (Link)

Boyer, C.N., K. Zechiel, P.D. Keyser, J. Rhinehart, and G. Bates. 2020. “Risk and Returns from Grazing Beef Cattle on Warm-Season Grasses in Tennessee” Agronomy Journal 112(1):301-308. (Link)

Boyer, C.N., A.P. Griffith, and K.L. DeLong. 2020. “Reproductive Failure and Long-Term Profitability of Spring and Fall Calving Beef Cows.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 45(1):78-91. (Link)

Bruhin, J., C. Trejo-Pech, C.N. Boyer, and S.A. Smith. 2022. “Profitability, Risk, and Cash Flow Deficit for Beginning Cow Calf Producers.” Agricultural Finance Review 82(1):1-19. (Link)

Campbell*, K., C.N. Boyer, D.M. Lambert, C.D. Clark, and S.A. Smith. 2021. “Risk, Cost-Share Payment, and Adoption of Cover Crops and No-Till.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 76(2):166-174. (Link)

Cai, Qingyin, et al. "The influence of past experience on farmers’ preferences for hog insurance products: a natural experiment and choice experiment in China." The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice 46.3 (2021): 399-421.

Chen, L., Rejesus, R.M., Aglasan, S., Hagen, S. and Salas, W., 2023. The impact of no‐till on agricultural land values in the United States Midwest. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 105(3), pp.760-783.

Cho, W., and B.W. Brorsen. 2021. “Evaluation of RI-PRF Crop Insurance Program Design.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 46:85-100.

Davidson, K.A. and Goodrich, B.K., 2023. Nudge to insure: Can informational nudges change enrollment decisions in pasture, rangeland, and forage rainfall index insurance?. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 45(1), pp.534-554

Ghosh, Prasenjit*, Ruiqing Miao, and Emir Malikov. 2023. “Crop Insurance Premium Subsidy and Irrigation Water Withdrawals in the Western United States.” The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice. 48(4): 968-992. doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-021-00252-4

Hadachek, Jeffrey, Ma, Meilin, and Sexton, Richard J.. 2023. Market Structure and Resilience of Food Supply Chains under Extreme Events. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1– 24. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12393

Majeed, Fahd, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao, Elena Blanc-Betes, Tara Hudiburg, and Evan H. DeLucia. 2023. “Carbon Credit Markets Can Reduce the Riskiness of Bioenergy Crop Production.” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2(2): 181-197. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.52

 Miao, Ruiqing. 2020. “Climate, Insurance, and Innovation: The Case of Drought and Innovations in Drought-Tolerant Traits in U.S. Agriculture.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 47(5):1826-1860. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa010

Miao, Ruiqing, Hongli Feng, David A. Hennessy, Gaurav Arora, and Charles R. Loesch. 2023. “Grassland Easement Acquisition: Conversion Hazard Rate, Additionality, Spatial Spillover, and Heuristics.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(2): 928-946. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13318

 Miao, Ruiqing, David A. Hennessy, and Hongli Feng. 2022. “Grassland Easement Evaluation and Acquisition with Uncertain Conversion and Conservation Returns.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 70(1):41-61. doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12302

Niyibizi, B., B.W. Brorsen, and P.D. Alderman. 2021. “Robustness of the Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Corn Yields.” Journal of Agribusiness. 39(2): 133-151.

Park, E., B.W. Brorsen, and A. Harri. 2020. “Spatially Smoothed Crop Yield Density Estimation: Physical Distance vs Climate Similarity.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 45(3):533-548.

Pinto, A.F., Goodrich, B.K., Kelley, W. and Runge, M., 2023. Price determinants of bred heifers: Do reputations matter?. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie.

ShalekBriski, A., B.W. Brorsen, J. Rogers, J.T. Biermacher, D.A. Marburger, and J. Edwards. 2021. “Design of the Rainfall Index Annual Forage Program.” Agricultural Finance Review. 81(1):114-131. doi:10.1108/AFR-11-2019-0120

Tsiboe, F. and Tack, J., 2022. Utilizing Topographic and Soil Features to Improve Rating for Farm‐Level Insurance Products. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104(1), pp.52-69..

Tsiboe, F. and Turner, D., 2023. Econometric identification of crop insurance participation. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, pp.1-22.

Turner, D. and Tsiboe, F., 2022. The crop insurance demand response to the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program Plus. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 44(3), pp.1273-1292.

Wang, H.H., Liu, L., Ortega, D.L., Jiang, Y. and Zheng, Q., 2020. Are smallholder farmers willing to pay for different types of crop insurance? An application of labelled choice experiments to Chinese corn growers. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, 45, pp.86-110.

Wang, H.H., Tack, J.B. and Coble, K.H., 2020. Frontier studies in agricultural insurance. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice, 45, pp.1-4.

Won, S., Rejesus, R.M., Goodwin, B.K. and Aglasan, S., 2023. Understanding the effect of cover crop use on prevented planting losses. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Yu, Chengzheng*, Ruiqing Miao, and Madhu Khanna. 2021. “Maladaptation of U.S. Corn and Soybeans to a Changing Climate.” Scientific Reports. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91192-5

Yu, J. and Goh, G., 2022. Estimating temperature impacts on perennial crop losses in California: Insights from insurance data. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 44(3), pp.1409-1423.

Yu, J., Goodrich, B. and Graven, A., 2022. Competing farm programs: Does the introduction of a risk management program reduce the enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program?. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 1(3), pp.320-333.