1.
Identify the risk management objectives of diverse groups of agricultural producers
including commercial crop and livestock producers as well as limited resource and
specialty crop producers.
2. Investigate
producers' perceptions and understanding of alternative risk management tools and
strategies.
3. Investigate
agricultural lenders' and extension educators' perceptions and understanding of
alternative risk management tools and strategies.
4. Examine how
risk management objectives, attitudes about the importance of alternative sources of risk,
sources of information, and other factors influence agricultural producers' choices of
comprehensive risk management strategies.
5. Examine how
educational programs that provide descriptive information about alternative risk
management tools influence producers' perceptions of and choices among those tools.
6. Examine how
educational programs that provide quantitative analysis of the risk mitigating effects of
alternative risk management tools influence producers' perceptions of and choices among
those tools.
