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The Marketing Performance of Illinois and Kansas Wheat Farmers
Dietz, Sarah N.; Aulerich, Nicole M.; Irwin, Scott H.; … - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982 … average difference between farmer and market benchmark prices are sensitive to the market benchmark considered. Marketing … benchmark is used. The sensitivity of marketing performance to the market benchmark considered is explained by the seasonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804781
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Measuring the Impact of Nutrition Labels on Food Purchasing Decisions: A field experiment with scanner data
Berning, Joshua P.; Chouinard, Hayley; McCluskey, Jill J. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2009
A simple experiment is used to examine the effect of grocery store nutrition labels on the sales of microwave popcorn in the East Bay area of California. Using an incomplete demand system we estimate the impact of the nutrition labels on sales of healthy (products that merit a nutrition label)...
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NSRL Corn Specialty Grain Survey: Iowa
Goldsmith, Peter D.; Masuda, Tadayoshi - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2008
In 2007, the National Soybean Research Laboratory in collaboration with the Iowa Agricultural Statistical Service conducted a survey of the specialty soybean and corn activities in the State for the 2006 crop year. Out of 55,879 corn and soybean farmers in Iowa, 5,000 farmers were randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199762
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NSRL Soybean Specialty Grain Survey: Iowa
Goldsmith, Peter D.; Masuda, Tadayoshi - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2008
In 2007, the National Soybean Research Laboratory in collaboration with the Iowa Agricultural Statistical Service conducted a survey of the specialty soybean and corn activities in the State for the 2006 crop year. Out of 55,879 corn and soybean farmers in Iowa, 5,000 farmers were randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199763
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Cotton Futures Dynamics: Structural Change, Index Traders and the Returns to Storage
Power, Gabriel J.; Robinson, John R.C. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
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...
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Comparison of Hedging Cost with Other Variable Input Costs
Riley, John Michael; Anderson, John D. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
Recent spikes in commodity prices have led to higher margin amounts and option premiums. For the most part, producers have always attributed their lack of use in reducing risk via futures and options markets to the high cost associated with the use of these markets. This study determines the...
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The Effect of Prior Gains and Losses on Current Risk-Taking Using Quantile Regression
Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
This paper investigates the dynamics of sequential decision-making in agricultural futures and options markets using a quantile regression framework. Analysis of trading records of 12 traders suggests that there is great heterogeneity in individual trading behavior. Traders respond differently...
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The Relative Performance of In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Hedging Effectiveness Indicators
Dahlgran, Roger A. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
Hedging effectiveness is the proportion of price risk removed through hedging. Empirical hedging studies typically estimate a set of risk minimizing hedge ratios, estimate the hedging effectiveness statistic, apply the estimated hedge ratios to a second group of data, and examine the robustness...
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A Limited Information Bayesian Forecasting Model of the Cattle SubSector
Abidoye, Babatunde O.; Lawrence, John D. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
The first step towards forecasting the price and output of the cattle industry is understanding the dynamics of the livestock production process. This study follows up on the Weimar and Stillman (1990) paper by using data from 1970 to 2005 to estimate the parameters that characterizes the cattle...
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Optimal Length of Moving Average to Forecast Futures Basis
Hatchett, Robert B.; Brorsen, B. Wade; Anderson, Kim B. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
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...
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