Hedging dairy production losses using weather-based index insurance

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-280

  Deng, Xiaohui ^a   Barnett, Barry J ^b   Vedenov, Dmitry V ^b   West, Joe W ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dairy production risk; Index insurance; Temperature humidity index

Indexed keywords

DAIRY FARMING; HUMIDITY; INDEX METHOD; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MILK PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847009132     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2007.00204.x     Document Type: Article

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