Risk is an inherent part of farming. And farm risk planning is an important activity that every farmer should consider.
Legal Risk Management: Protecting Your Farm and Family – PowerPoint Presentation (By Shannon Mirus, National Agricultural Law Center): Risk management issues that producers should consider, as well as potential solutions to many of these issues are introduced, with special attention given to negligence and premise liability, the use of business organizations as protection for assets, and issues involved in forming and enforcing contracts. Download this presentation.
The USDA’s Risk Management Agency offers valuable information on Farm Risk Planning.
National Crop Insurance Services offers a free, informative, Four Page Brochure on farm risk planning.
The Ag Risk Education Library from the University of Minnesota offers lots of good information and resources.
The UC Davis Agriculture and Resource Economics Program offers a number of Risk Management Resources for Specialty Crop Producers.
And the UC Davis Small Farm Program offers a number of useful resources related to risk management on their Farm Management Page.
The U-Conn Cooperative Extension Service provides a Connecticut Farm Risk Management and Crop Insurance Resources Library offers a number of Free Web Publications and Links on Building a Farm Risk Management Plan.
University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension has a free comprehensive publication on Risk and Resilience in Agriculture.
Managing Risk With Revenue Insurance is a free publication from Mississippi State University and USDA.
