-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their determinants was confirmed. Given the effect of corn and soybean meal prices on …

downside risk in revenue for corn, wheat, and soybean farmers in 2009 in the four locations examined, with reductions ranging …

sale, seasonality, cyclical effects, lot size, weight, breed type, sex, commingling, fed cattle futures price, and corn …

disprove such claims. This research investigates the efficiency of corn and soybean options markets by directly computing …, risk adjusted returns indicate that no profits can be made by taking either side of the corn or soybean options markets …. However, when time effects are analyzed, corn calls appear to have provided excess returns during the 1998--2005 period. This …

The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including corn, has been expanding but its … determinants are not well understood. This paper econometrically investigates the determinants of world demand for U.S. corn seeds … with distance, tariffs, and sanitary-phytosanitary (SPS) regulations imposed by foreign countries on U.S. corn seed exports …

Using 1971-2000 data, we examine the accuracy of corn and soybean production forecasts provided by the USDA and two … and unbiased. The relative forecast accuracy of the agencies varied by crop and month. For corn, USDA’s forecasts ranked …