Research

RightRisk, LLC members are actively involved in ongoing research projects in many areas of risk management.

Projects include better understanding risk attitudes and strategies of agricultural operators, developing tools for risk assessment and risk management,  management decision aids, risk simulations, and resource management tools. Some of the more prominent efforts include:

• Ag Help Wanted: Guidelines for Managing Agricultural Labor - a human resource management text co-developed by members of RightRisk LLC and researchers from five western states and one Canadian province. More information on this resource is available at: AgHelpWanted.org.
   
• Rural Family Ventures - a research effort to better understand the risk attitudes, resource management issues, and perceived threats of agricultural managers in three western states reporting less than $50,000 in agricultural sales. A recently published bulletin outlines the findings of the study is entitled A New Look at the Agricultural Community as Extension Clientele in the West. A copy may be viewed at: RuralFamilyVentures.org.
   
• Risk Navigator-SRM - is a project to develop a text outlining a 10-step process for strategically managing risk. In addition to the text, the team of authors has created user-friendly tools to help the agricultural manager implement the process in day-to-day management of agricultural operations. More information is available at: RiskNavigatorSRM.com.
   
• Ag Survivor - is a risk simulation designed to help users better understand their own tolerance for risk while practicing risk management decision making in a simulated farm/ranch environment. The simulation is most commonly used in presentations with groups of producers where the interaction of individual ranch/farm managers in small-group settings creates a learning atmosphere unlike most other educational presentations. The simulation may be experienced online at: AgSurvivor.com.