This book brings together in one publication the latest information and research findings of internationally renowned experts to help market participants understand how best to utilize distillers grains both in the U.S. domestic market and in international export markets. The book discusses how...

Worldwide, a segment of consumers can afford to pay substantial price premiums for very high quality agricultural products with attributes those consumers value. At the same time, many U.S. farmers are producing these high-quality products but are not using market mechanisms that allow them to...

Worldwide, a segment of consumers can afford to pay substantial price premiums for very high quality agricultural products with attributes those consumers value. At the same time, many U.S. farmers are producing these high-quality products but are not using market mechanisms that allow them to...

Predicting Animals in Feedlot That Produce Discounted Carcasses.

Managing risk is required for farm enterprises to be profitable. Contractual agreements - such as livestock leases - can be crafted to loan or transfer assets, while also sharing risk. The beef cow share agreement is one example that allows individuals with complimentary inputs to benefit from...

This paper compares feedlots that operate on a year round basis and buy feeder cattle and sell fed cattle every month with a common strategy for stock market investors, dollar cost averaging.

In recent years, narrow profit margins in the cattle feeding business have increased the necessity of effectively managing risk, but especially price risk. The live cattle futures market is an effective tool in price risk management; a fact that more Iowa cattle feeders are realizing. Some...

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was an advantage or disadvantage in making feeder pig placement decisions under a DCA method verses placing a constant number of feeder pigs each month.

This paper compares feeder pig operations that operate on a year-round basis with a common strategy for stock market investors, dollar cost averaging.

Non-Basin Technologies for Open Feedlot Runoff: Demonstration, Implementation and Modeling