In recent years, the possibility of increasing production of legumes, whose area of cultivation has decreased, is being considered. It has been influenced by the yield variability which adversely affected the profitability of these plants cultivation. This paper attempts to assess the risk in...

The investigation concerned 41 milk cooperatives in years 2002-2005. The results indicate that Polish accession to the European Union positively influenced the levels of sales profitability, assets value, own capital and employment. The degree of current liquidity slightly diminished but that of...

The article presents the economic performance and investment outlays recorded in the agricultural holdings participating in the Polish FADN. The aim of the paper is to evaluate and assess the differences in investment activity among the agricultural holdings of various types of farming. The...

The purpose of the article was comparing diverse resources of production factors in farming and displaying relations between them, as well as the effectiveness of their exploitation in agricultural regions of the European Union (EU-25). An average arable farm was analyzed in 122 regions,...

The problem of optimization of the term of planting greenhouse lettuce is considered. The main aim was maximization of a profit function (economic surplus). Profits from lettuce production and sale in dependence of the term of planting were observed. The problem consists is in estimation of the...

The aim of this article is to present the problems of cost competitiveness of Polish dairy farms and selected European countries. Comparisons were used to study IFCN and Agricultural Census 2010. As can be seen from the analysis, the majority of farms in Poland are uncompetitive in terms of cost...

The aim of this paper is to assess the potential for production, economic and financial results of individual agricultural holdings in Wielkopolska and Śląsk FADN region when taking their economic size into consideration. The analysis shows that bigger holdings achieve definitely better...

An increased volatility of agricultural products' prices, observed in recent years, has caused a greater exposure of market participants to the market risk. The main goal of this article is to estimate the volatility of price returns in the grain legumes grown in Poland and the ground soybean...

Observed increased volatility of world commodity prices causes an increase of risk exposure. Thus market participants can not achieve the desired value of their goal function. The aim of this research was an assessment of wheat prices volatility in selected EU member states. Results of the...

This paper studies the role of speculators in explaining agricultural commodity price movements. The spikes in global agricultural commodity prices in 2007-2008 and 2010 2011 have opened a debate on the contribution of speculation to recent food price volatility. Most academic literature does...