This study focuses on managing cotton production and marketing risks usingcombinations of irrigation levels, put options (as price insurance), andcrop insurance. Stochastic cotton yields and prices are used to simulate awhole-farm financial statement for a 1,000 acre furrow-irrigated cotton farmin the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley under 16 combinations of riskmanagement strategies. Analyses for risk-averse decision makers indicatethat multiple irrigations are preferred. The benefits to purchasing putoptions increase with yields, as they are more beneficial when higher yieldsare expected from applying more irrigation applications. Crop insurance isstrongly preferred at lower irrigation levels.