Investigations were carried out to study how plant production enterprises operating in the West-Transdanubian region of Hungary relate to risk management; how they view, in terms of risk factors, the production, market, financial, technological, legal and human elements affecting production....

The commodity bull cycle of 2006-2008 and subsequent dramatic price decline have been a source of hardship for traditional commodity market participants such as producers and merchant/shippers. The usefulness of futures markets has been called into question, especially given that some market...

Futures prices when combined with a basis forecast provide a reliable way to forecast cash prices. The most popular method of forecasting basis is historical moving averages. Given the recent failure of longer moving averages proposed by previous studies, this research reassesses past...

Corn and wheat cash prices in Kansas are affected by a number of local supply-demand, market structure, transportation access and other factors. Kansas corn prices in 2008 were affected by form of business organization, local feedgrain production and livestock feed usage, elevator storage...

Aszőlő rügyfakadási időpontjának modellezése és előrejelzése növényvédelmi és gazdasági szempontból nélkülözhetetlen lépés a szőlőtermelésben. Tanulmányunkat öt fehérborszőlő-fajta (Chardonnay, Rajnai rizling, Hárslevelű, Pinot blanc és Szürkebarát), valamint...