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Is Storage Rational When the Price is Expected to Decline? An Initial Study Using Data from U.S. Futures and Options Markets

Zulauf, Carl; Sanghyo, Kim - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The expected net return to storage is conventionally calculated as the expected change in price over the storage period minus the cost of storage. However, this value is almost always negative, thus raising the question why would anyone store. Numerous explanations have been proposed, but none...

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Addressing the Needs of the Agribusiness “Fringe”

Larson, Ronald B. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Students studying “fringe” agribusiness sectors (e.g,, supermarkets, textile manufacturers, paper mills, wholesale …” areas are not uniform, “generic” agribusiness courses may not address all their specific business skill needs. One starting … point could be to rotate part of the agribusiness capstone course so three major topics are covered in depth different …

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Envesting in an Agricultural Legacy: Impact of a Targeted Young and Beginning Farmer Loan Program in Arkansas

Goeringer, L. Paul; Goodwin Jr., Harold L.; Dixon, Bruce L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

America’s agricultural producers continue to age. According to the U.S. Census of Agriculture, the average age of farm operators increased from 55.3 in 2002 to 57.1 in 2007. During the same period, the Census shows a thirty percent decrease in the number of farmers under the age of 25. Young...

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Is Government Involvement Really Necessary: Implications for Systemic Risk and Crop Reinsurance Contracts

Feng, Xiaoguang; Hayes, Dermot - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

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A High-Dimensional, Multivariate Copula Approach to Modeling Multivariate Agricultural Price Relationships and Tail Dependencies

Chi, Xuan; Goodwin, Barry K. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

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The Impact of Interstate Bank Branching Deregulations on the U.S. Agricultural Sector: From Better Access to Credit to Higher Farm Sales and Profits

Kandilov, Amy; Kandilov, Ivan - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

In this paper, we show that relaxing credit constraints and increasing access to finance by lifting state-level restrictions on interstate bank expansions from the 1970s through the early 1990s benefited the U.S. agricultural industry by increasing farm sales and profits. In our empirical...

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Do Speculators in Futures Markets Make Cash Markets More Volatile?

Li, Yingzi; Fortenbery, T. Randall - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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Do RIN Mandates and Blender's Tax Credit Affect Blenders' Hedging Strategies?

Ahmedov, Zafarbek; Woodard, Joshua D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

In this study stylized gasoline blender’s optimal hedging strategy in the presence of ethanol mandates is analyzed. In particular, the main objective of this study is to investigate whether the ability to purchase RINs and the presence of tax incentives would affect blenders’ optimal hedging...

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Do Analysts’ Earnings Per Share Forecasts Contain Valuable Information Beyond One Quarter? The Case of Publicly Traded Agribusiness Firms

Lewis, Daniel; Manfredo, Mark R.; Sanders, Dwight R.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Analysts’ forecasting of earnings per share for multiple quarter time horizons of eleven agribusiness companies is …

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Measurement of Farm Credit Risk: SUR Model and Simulation Approach

Yan, Yan; Barry, Peter J.; Paulson, Nicholas D.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

The study addresses problems in measuring credit risk under the structure model, and then proposes a seemingly unrelated regression model (SUR) to predict farms’ ability in meeting their current and anticipated obligations in the next 12 months. The empirical model accounts for both the...

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