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AGRIBUSINESS RISK AND RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
Kynda Curtis
Assistant Professor & State Specialist
University of Nevada, Reno
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Sources of Risk: Overview
� Five sources of risk and risk strategies to improve outcomes
� Production
� Marketing� Marketing
� Financial
� Legal
� Human Resource
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Sources of Risk: Overview
� Topic 1 - Production Risk and Production Risk
Management Tools
� Topic 2- Marketing Risk
� Topic 3- Financial Risk� Topic 3- Financial Risk
� Topic 4- Legal Risk
� Topic 5- Human Resource Risk
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk
� Know that production risk is a variation in production level
� Agricultural production implies an expected outcome or yieldoutcome or yield
� Variation in expected outcome affects your ability to achieve expected financial goals
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk
� Sources of Crop Production Risk� Weather
� Insect damage and weed competition
� Diseases
Interaction with new technology� Interaction with new technology
� Sources of Livestock Production Risk� Weather and the environment
� Disease effects in producing calves or finishing� Predators (coyotes, wolves, mountain lions)
� Interaction with new technology
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� Enterprise diversification
� Try different production practices or practice enterprise diversification by
� Growing different crops� Growing different crops
� Trying combinations of crops and livestock
� Identifying different end points in the same production process
� Growing different types of the same crop
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� Thinking of starting a new enterprise?
� The answers to these questions can help you discover any limiting resources you might encounter
� What knowledge and management skills do I need?� What knowledge and management skills do I need?
� What are the added labor needs?
� Where are the markets?
� What do your answers tell you?
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� Crop Insurance
� Consider using crop insurance as a tool to transfer your yield or price risk to others
� Crop insurance works the same way as car � Crop insurance works the same way as car insurance, the greater the coverage, the greater the premium
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� The answers to these questions can help you determine if you’re getting the most out of your insurance dollar
� What are the costs?What are the costs?
� Which type offers the best protection?
� How much coverage do I need for adequate cash flow?
� Which insurance product will best complement my marketing plan?
� What do your answers tell you?
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� Contract production
� Be prepared to commit to deliver a specific quality and quantity of product
� You must meet the contract specifications� You must meet the contract specifications
� Manage the contracted risk with crop insurance and sound management practices
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� The answers to these questions can help you determine if contract production is a solution for you
� What benefits will a production contract provide?What benefits will a production contract provide?
� What flexibility will I give up?
� Do I understand the terms of the contract or should I seek legal advice?
� What do your answers tell you?
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� New Technology
� Some of the technological advances in agriculture that have improved the producer’s success rate� Planting improvements
Crop production chemicals� Crop production chemicals
� Harvesting equipment
� Benefits of using new technology include� Lower production costs
� Improved environmental quality
� Higher quality product
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� New technology benefits for livestock producers include
� Advances in disease control
� Improved feed supplements� Improved feed supplements
� Better management practices
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Sources of Risk: Topic 1 – Production Risk Management Tools
� Once again, knowing the answers to these questions can help you determine if using new technology is a useful production tool for you
� What is the economic benefit of adopting a new What is the economic benefit of adopting a new technology?
� Does the adoption of a new technology reduce my risk?
� Is crop insurance a better risk than adopting a new technology?
� What do your answers tell you?
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Sources of Risk: Topic Overview
� Topic 1- Production Risk
� Topic 2 - Marketing Risk Marketing and Risk
Management Tools
� Topic 3- Financial Risk� Topic 3- Financial Risk
� Topic 4- Legal Risk
� Topic 5- Human Resource Risk
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk
� Marketing risk involves
� Price and market uncertainty
� Input costs
� Outside forces� Outside forces
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk
� Outside forces that affect prices and market risk are
� Weather
� Actions of US and foreign governments� Actions of US and foreign governments
� Farm programs
� Regulations
� Embargoes
� Trade tariffs
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk
� Personal considerations for handling marketing risk include
� Know your risk comfort level
� Improve your current marketing skills and learn new � Improve your current marketing skills and learn new skills
� Develop an integrated management approach
� Develop a marketing plan
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk
� Ways you can handle marketing risk
� Reduce risk by avoiding higher-risk ventures
� Shift risk to others
� Maintain flexibility � Maintain flexibility
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk Management Tools
� Reduce risk and avoid higher-risk ventures by
� Knowing current market information
� Using key business partners
� Spreading out sales� Spreading out sales
� Using contract production
� Creating and following your business plan
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk Management Tools
� Shift risk to others by
� Using contracts (cash, forward, deferred)
� Participating in futures and option markets
� Pooling � Pooling
� Joining cooperatives
� Sharing leases
� Timing or modifying the type of sale
� Purchasing crop insurance
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Sources of Risk: Topic 2 - Marketing Risk Management Tools
� Maintain flexibility by
� Timing sales and/or purchase of outputs/inputs
� Placement where and from whom your sales/purchases are made
� Different forms of sales and input purchase
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Sources of Risk: Overview
� Topic 1- Production Risk
� Topic 2- Marketing Risk
� Topic 3- Financial Risk and Financial Risk
Management ToolsManagement Tools
� Topic 4- Legal Risk
� Topic 5- Human Resource Risk
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Financial Risk
� Financial risk develops from regular business activity
� Cost and availability of debt capital
� Ability to meet cash flow needs
� Capability of generating additional equity
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Financial Risk
� Other financial risk can be attributed to
� Poor planning
� Failure to maintain control of the operation
� Lack of financial understanding� Lack of financial understanding
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Financial Risk
� Cost and availability of debt capital
� Money or capital that comes from sources outside the operation, such as bank loans
� Work with your lender to create a solid relationship � Work with your lender to create a solid relationship and reduce your financial risk when
� There’s an increase in interest rates or interest expenses from variable rate loans
� You need to borrow and access credit to maintain flexibility
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Financial Risk
� Ability to meet cash flow needs
� Typical financial obligations include
� Production expenses
� Debt payment� Debt payment
� Property taxes
� Insurance
� Family living expenses
� Address with cash flow “planning” and budgeting
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Financial Risk
� Your ability to increase owner equity in your operation is an indication of basic business profitability
� If you notice a downward-trend in your owner � If you notice a downward-trend in your owner equity over time, you are seeing a lack of profitability in the business
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Financial Risk
� Keep or increase your profitability by
� Maintaining effective and up-to-date records
� Implementing a professional financial plan
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Managing Financial Risk
� Manage your financial risk by
� Determining your acceptable risk levels
� Putting controls and tracking mechanisms in place to maintain your acceptable risk level
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Sources of Risk: Topic 3 - Managing Financial Risk
� Other ways to manage your financial risk are
� Budgeting cash inflows and outflows
� Maintaining accurate and up-to-date financial records
� Conducting a basic financial analysis� Conducting a basic financial analysis
� Developing annual financial statements
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Sources of Risk: Overview
� Topic 1- Production Risk
� Topic 2- Marketing Risk
� Topic 3- Financial Risk
� Topic 4 - Legal Risk� Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Topic 5- Human Resource Risk
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Legal risks include
� Business structure
� Contracts
� Tort liability� Tort liability
� Statutory compliance
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Business structure has many forms� Corporations
� Limited partnership
� Limited-liability companies
Partnership� Partnership
� Sole proprietorship
� Trusts
� They all have an effect on� Income and property taxes
� Estate planning and transfers
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Contractual agreements are part of the day-to-day management of most agricultural businesses
� The five types of contracts that can affect your legal risk arelegal risk are
� Financial agreements
� Leases or crop-share arrangements
� Federal program agreements
� Insurance instruments
� Labor
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Tort and tort liability law is primarily concerned with compensation to someone injured or damaged by a wrongful act or omissionor omission
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Tort liability includes acts of
� Negligence or intentionally caused damage related to
� Farm injury
� Farm discharges
� Non-disclosure of known farmstead hazards
� Consult a legal professional to ensure you have adequate protection against this type of legal risk
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� Statutory compliance is defined as meeting regulations imposed by government agencies on your operation
� Statutory compliance risks arise from the failure to � Statutory compliance risks arise from the failure to follow regulations governing the operation of your business
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk
� You need to know that statutory compliance involves
� Tax reporting and payment
� Wage and worker safety
� Nondiscrimination� Nondiscrimination
� Pesticide/herbicide use regulations
� Federal program compliance
� Failure to comply can result in severe fines or other penalties
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Sources of Risk: Topic 4 - Legal Risk: Managing Legal Risk
� You can manage your legal risk better by
� Obtaining professional assistance
� Purchasing additional liability insurance
� Contacting an attorney� Contacting an attorney
� Hiring an accountant or CPSA
� Understanding the legal risks
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Sources of Risk: Overview
� Topic 1- Production Risk
� Topic 2- Marketing Risk
� Topic 3- Financial Risk
� Topic 4- Legal Risk� Topic 4- Legal Risk
� Topic 5 - Human Resource Risk
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Sources of Risk: Topic 5 - Human Resource Risk
� Human resource risks may arise when business activities require working with other people. These would include but are not limited to personnel issues, such as
� Hiring and/or firing employees
� Injury, illness, or death
� Changing personal or operation objectives
� Marital status
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Sources of Risk: Topic 5 - Human Resource Risk
� Labor risks you should become familiar with include
� Work that is not done, is done poorly, or not on time
� High indirect labor costs can be incurred
� Potential conflict with employees� Potential conflict with employees
� Laws and regulations
� Worker safety regulations/OSHA requirements
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Sources of Risk: Topic 5 - Managing Human Resource Risk
� You can reduce human resource risk by effectively training your employees
� Training should be ongoing to encourage motivation and skills development to maintain peak efficiency
� Consider shifting some jobs to contract or custom labor
� May provide a lower cost alternative
� Specific tasks can be assigned to contract workers
� May outsource human resource administration
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Sources of Risk: Topic 5 - Managing Human Resource Risk
� You can further reduce human resource risk by monitoring your operation’s hiring practices
� Always
� Check personnel qualifications� Check personnel qualifications
� Follow the hiring laws for your state
� Also have plans for
� Personnel transitions
� Estate transfer
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QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
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