traditional suite of price-based commodity payments, that is, marketing loan benefits and counter-cyclical payments. We minimize … downside risk in revenue for corn, wheat, and soybean farmers in 2009 in the four locations examined, with reductions ranging …

price levels. We also assess the impact of the choice of yield aggregation used in the ACR payment rate on the mean and … does the price-based support, although ACR may not raise mean revenue as much. While corn farmers in the heartland states …This paper develops a stochastic model for comparing payments to U.S. corn producers under the U.S. Senate’s Average …

commodity support for corn differs between current-style approaches of support and revenue-based support. From a purely economic …

the nascent empirical evidence, and identifies the transmission of different types of oil price shocks to movements in …

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 …

price volatility, is sufficient? The paper is a contribution to the debate on therecent commodity price bubble and the … relationship among commodity futures markets for agricultural raw materials.More particularly, the transmission of price volatility … agricultural commodity prices at different marketplaces have been transferred during the drastic price changes of 2008. In this …

Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers …. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long …- where the price per unit becomes progressively higher. Empirical evidence about the incentives provided by various …

side risk in wheat and corn, but not significantly in soybeans. Marketing alternatives generally increase the up side … strategies. To assist in the individual decision making process, further study will need to be done with yield data and budgets …