Relevant Risk

Trey Morris, owner of Morris Crop Marketing LLC, discusses farmer marketing strategies. Trey is a crop marketing expert, and his company provides crop marketing services focused on the Delta.

Jason Wheeler and Roger Gattis discuss their thoughts with Andy McKenzie on farmer marketing strategies.

John Anderson and Aaron Smith (University of Tennessee) discuss the crop market situation and outlook along with seasonal market risk factors.

Hunter Biram joins John Anderson to discuss what producers need to know about prevented planting coverage in crop insurance products.

John Anderson and Aaron Smith (University of Tennessee Associate Professor and Extension Specialist) discuss factors affecting corn, soybean, and cotton markets this summer and look ahead to risk management challenges as harvest time approaches.

John Anderson and Andy McKenzie talk about information in government reports that change market expectations and drive futures prices. Andy discusses some of his most recent research on the topic, which investigates if large export sales of US grains to China impact futures prices. 

Andrew McKenzie, Trey Malone, and Aleks Schaefer discuss about research on public policy impacts on agricultural risks.

Andrew McKenzie, John Anderson, and Jason Wheeler discuss the fundamentals of grain marketing, including the role of grain elevators in the grain supply chain. 

John Anderson, Andrew McKenzie, and Hunter Biram discuss crop insurance issues including current price guarantees on Arkansas row crops and rate adjustments on RMA-designated higher-risk areas.

Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Department faculty members with the University of Arkansas System, Jada Thompson and John Anderson, discuss the ongoing highly-pathogenic avian influenza outbreak and its impact on egg prices.

John Anderson, Andy McKenzie, James Mitchell, and Hunter Biram review the major events and issues affecting markets for Arkansas commodities in 2022 and look ahead to prospects for 2023.

John Anderson and Andy McKenzie are joined by Rachel Barry, risk management specialist with Dairy Farmers of America and alumnae of the agricultural economics and agribusiness department, to discuss risk management tools and challenges in the dairy sector.

In this episode James McWard talks about his grain merchandising career experiences with Viserion Grain, LLC. In particular he discusses the marketing challenges brought about by the record low 2022 water levels on the Mississippi River. 

John Anderson and Andy McKenzie discuss current research on a variety of commodity and risk management topics with Joe Janzen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois.

John Anderson, Andy McKenzie, and Hunter Biram discuss the impact of reduced Mississippi River barge traffic on Arkansas grain markets.

Director of the Fryar Center John Anderson sat down with Assistant Professor and Extension Agricultural Economist Hunter Biram to discuss a relatively new crop insurance product on the market — margin protection insurance for rice.

John Anderson and James Mitchell discuss the impact of the 2022 drought on the U.S. cattle herd and how it is likely to affect the cattle market in coming years.

John Anderson and Scott Stiles discuss the market reaction to the June 30 Acreage report and its implications for the 2022 crop. Their conversation also touches on emerging production risks for the Arkansas crop and implications for farmer risk management decisions. 

John Anderson and Trey Malone, a new faculty member in AEAB, discuss the unique risk management challenges facing producers entering into value-added agricultural enterprises.

John Anderson, Andrew McKenzie, and James Mitchell with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Jada Thompson with the University of Tennessee discuss the farm- and market-level impacts of the ongoing outbreak of highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry operations.The following materials and/or data sources were referenced in this Relevant Risk episode:USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Avian Influenza web page, https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza

John Anderson, Andrew McKenzie, and Scott Stiles – economists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture – discuss the current market situation for Arkansas' major commercial row crops.

John Anderson, James Mitchell (University of Arkansas), and Josh Maples (Mississippi State University) discuss crop insurance instruments available to help livestock producers manage forage production risk.  This material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA through a grant from the Southern Extension Risk Management Education Center under Award Number 2021-70027-34722.

John Anderson, Andy McKenzie, Alvaro Durand-Morat and James Mitchell with the Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness department explore potential agricultural market implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The following materials and/or data sources were referenced in this Relevant Risk episode:The Story of Rising Fertilizer Prices by Aaron Smith (UC-Davis), https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/news/story-rising-fertilizer-pricesDepartment of Energy, Energy Information Administration,  https://www.eia.gov/USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Arkansas Daily Grain Bids, https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_2960.pdfCME Group Grain and Oilseed futures quotes, https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/agriculture.html#products

John Anderson and Mike Popp from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness are joined by Trent Roberts, U of A System Division of Agriculture soil fertility specialist, to discuss soil fertility management in an environment of record high fertilizer costs. Visit fryar-risk-center.uada.edu for more information.

John Anderson and Andy McKenzie with the Fryar Price Risk Management Center talk with Ed Fryar, founder of the Center, about his experience with risk assessment and risk management over the course of his career in the poultry industry.

John Anderson and James Mitchell discuss the cattle and beef markets, focusing on calls for policy intervention related to fed cattle pricing practices.

Welcome to Relevant Risk from the Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence. In this inaugural episode, director of the Fryar Center John Anderson sat down with Andrew McKenzie, the associate director of the Center, to introduce the podcast and discuss the overall aims of the Fryar Risk Management Center of Excellence.