Mallory, Mindy L.; Zhao, Wenjiao; Irwin, Scott H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We estimate the cost of post-harvest forward contracting corn and soybeans for January and March delivery from 1980 … through 2009. For both corn and soybeans we saw a downward trend in the cost of forward contract for January delivery and we … forward contracting soybeans for March delivery is slightly downward sloped, but less than the cost of forward contracting …