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. Organic milk carries with it a substantial premium but may be at higher risk of discounts or penalties if the milk is more …
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management strategy for several levels of risk aversion. Research Methods Hard red winter wheat grain yield data were produced in … included the per acre cost of chemical as well as the per acre rental rate for ground application. Risk analysis was conducted … treatment cost that would entice wheat producers to use fungicide for several levels of risk aversion. Potential for Generating …
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availability. Hence stochastic rainfall poses considerable production risk in the region and developing strategies to maximize the … optimal decisions were not sensitive to variations in price of cotton lint and farmer’s attitude towards risk. …
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conclude that the cost of forward contracting for January delivery is partly compensation for the counterparty risk borne by … soybeans for January delivery. This indicates that cash flow risk may be more important than risk of default by the farmer …
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The objective of this article is to propose the use of moment functions and maximum entropy techniques as a flexible way to estimate conditional crop yield distributions. We present a moment based model that extends previous approaches in several dimensions, and can be easily estimated using...
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Risk management and efficient, well coordinated, flow-scheduling have an increasingly important role in the competitive … of pig and sow space unit under price risk. The values are estimated with two stochastic dynamic programming models. The …
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Farm-level Census data and county-level income shock data reveal that past unexpected income shocks affect the rate of change in average farm size. Average farm size increases more quickly in counties experiencing negative income shocks as compared to counties experiencing positive income...
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, using a parametric rather than a nonparametric approach to obtain the measurement of price uncertainty and risk. Keywords …: risk, uncertainty, productivity …
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This study investigates the role of risk in farmers' acreage decisions in the Northcentral region by revisiting an … farmers' risk attitudes. Estimated model results are used to examine counter-cyclical payments' production impact for major …
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intentions in the case of broiler meat. In the case of each risk products the attitude-level variables had importance in … explaining the buying intentions. The heterogeneity of the respondents regarding the purchase intentions of risk products was … analysed by latent class logistic regression that included all three risk products. About 60% of the respondents belonged to …
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