This article examines the role of a management simulator in teaching an agribusiness management course. The use of the simulator is described and the critical issue of the simulator's correspondence with management course content is discussed. A set of requirements for the realization of the...

Adverse publicity regarding food contamination can depress demand, causing lost producer revenue. This study addresses the magnitude of those losses through the analysis of the impact of TV and print news coverage of bacterial contamination of chicken in the United States. An inverse demand...

This article reports, without breaching confidentiality agreements, on a cross-hedging consulting study performed for a cottonseed crusher. This article's objectives are twofold. First, it examines how futures markets should be used to hedge cottonseed crushing. The soybean crushing spread is...