Building a Risk Management Plan

This unique publication includes producer information sources (both print and electronic)s and quizzes to test your financial strength and management skills. Its comprehensive articles, meant to help growers start building a risk management plan, is a cooperative effort between RMA, the Economic Research Service, and Farm Futures magazine.

A Note on the Files

• Insurance Companies - Provide insurance coverage through the Standard Reinsurance Agreement.
• Weighing Farm Bill Impact: The World According to Flinchbaugh
• Stuck: Change Is Good ... You Go First
• Taking Stock of Your Options: Things To Do When You"re Not in the Field
• Box: Steps in Farm Decision Making
• Painting the Risk Management Landscape: Assess Your Management Skills and Financial Strength
• Table 1: Risk Management Practices
• Table 2: Financial Risk Management Tools
• Table 3: Knowledge of Options Terms
• Quizzes To Discover Your Inner Farm
• A New Crop of Insurance: New Ways To Protect Your Bottom Line
• Price ... It's What You Make It: Proven Ways To Protect Your Price
• The Write Stuff

Note: Every effort has been made to ensure that the following Web sites are up-to-date. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the web, addresses listed may change or cease to exist. RMA is not responsible for their accuracy:

• Crop and Livestock Reports of the National Agricultural Statistics Service
• Outlook Reports of the Economic Research Service

Building a Risk Management Plan (original PDF version, dated 1998)

• Cover
• Insurance Companies (html)
• Frontmatter -- Weighing Farm Bill Impact
• Table of Contents
• Taking Stock of Your Options: Things To Do When You"re Not in the Field
• Painting the Risk Management Landscape: Assess Your Management Skills and Financial Strength
• Quizzes To Discover Your Inner Farm
• A New Crop of Insurance: New Ways To Protect Your Bottom Line
• Price ... It's What You Make It: Proven Ways To Protect Your Price
• The Write Stuff
• Entire Publication