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Financial Control and Variable Amortization Under Uncertainty: An Application To Texas Rice Farms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Md. Lutfor Rahman  and
Peter J. Barry
Md. Lutfor Rahman
Affiliation:
Bangladesh Agricultural University
Peter J. Barry
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Variability in commodity prices and yields, together with greater financial obligations for highly leveraged farms, have added much uncertainty about farmers' debt servicing capacity (Barry and Fraser; Hanson and Thompson). As a result, financial responses must come more to the forefront in farmers' risk management, through emphasis on fuller development and application of the financial control process; and development of specific financial programs and instruments for dealing with random variations in debt servicing capacity (Baker; Lee). An example of the second response is the variable amortization payment plan VAPP suggested by Baker and tested empirically by Stone for use in farm mortgage lending.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , July 1981 , pp. 99 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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