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What is Risk and Risk Management
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What is Risk
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What is Risk – Take 2
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Components of Risk
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Components of Risk –
Undesirable Outcome
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Components of Risk –
Event (Cause/Source of Risk)
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Components of Risk – Probability
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Back to the Beginning Exercise
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Back to the Beginning Exercise
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Back To The Beginning Exercise
[Class III/BFP Prices, 1988-December 2002]
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Overall Categories of Risk
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Risk Increases the
More You Don’t Know
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What is Risk Management?
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Risk Management is
Assuring An Outcome
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Five Primary Means of
Risk Management
  • Reduce
    • Reduce the probability that the event will occur
    • Reduce the impact if the event does occur
  • Transfer
    • Transfer the cost of an undesirable outcome to someone else
  • Avoid
    • Completely avoid potential events thus providing a zero probability that they will occur
  • Do Nothing
    • Let the risk happen and be ready to bear the consequences.
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Price Risk
What Happens to the Distribution When You Have a Floor Price at $10.51?
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What Happens to the Distribution When You Establish a Short Fence from
$12.05 to 13.58?
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Production Risk
Risk:  Poor weather event causing the undesirable outcome of lower than expected yields. 
Risk Management???
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Production Risk:
Risk: of a poor weather event causing the undesirable outcome of lower than expected yields
Risk Management???
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Financial Risk
Risk: higher interest rates causing the undesirable outcome of lower than expected income/cash flow
Risk Management???
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Financial Risk
Risk: higher interest rates causing the undesirable outcome of lower than expected income/cash flow
Risk Management???
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Financial Risk
Risk: higher interest rates causing the undesirable outcome of lower than expected income/cash flow
Risk Management???
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Human Resources
Risk: Cost of hired labor not showing up or making a mistake causing lower production, injury, or death
Risk Management???
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Human Resources
Risk: Cost of hired labor not showing up or making a mistake causing lower production, injury, or death
Risk Management???
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Human Resources
Risk: Cost of hired labor not showing up or making a mistake causing lower production, injury, or death
Risk Management???
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Environmental Risk
Risk: manure spill causing the undesirable outcome of fines, lawsuits, and loss of income
Risk Management???
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Environmental Risk
Risk: manure spill causing the undesirable outcome of fines, lawsuits, and loss of income
Risk Management???
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Disability Risk
Risk:  poor health causing loss of income
Risk Management???
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So, I now know
What Risk Management is, but How do I do it???
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How???
  • Step 1:  Be aware, identify the risks you face.
  • Step 2:  Evaluate:
    • the likelihood that the risk will occur, and
    • how bad the hurt will be if it does occur
  • Step 3:  Decide on how you will address the risk
    • reduce, transfer, avoid, nothing, or some combination
  • Step 4:  Implement
    • What is the most frustrating words used in management??   Answer:  “If I had only ……”
  • Step 5:  Control
    • Monitor to assure that what you said you would do, you did, and that you are getting what you want out of your your risk management strategies.
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Prioritizing Which Risks to Address First
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Risk vs. Profitability
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