Designing and rating an area yield crop insurance contract

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 430-438

  Skees, Jerry R ^a   Black, J Roy ^b   Barnett, Barry J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Area yield; Crop insurance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ARABLE FARMING; CROP INSURANCE; GROUP RISK PLAN;

EID: 0031423105     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1244141     Document Type: Article

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