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The analysis of the 2009 Uganda National panel Survey (UNPS) collected by the UBoS shows that milk production from … smallholder farm units was 1 billion litres, and about 52 percent (524 million litres) joined the second level of the milk value … chain – and of which 72 percent was marketed in unprocessed form to consumers. High informality in milk marketing can be …
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- and weight group in a Holstein_Freisian herd. Handled more than 2000 milk record samples and concluded that the optimal … milk production over 30 kg milk daily. Our results show that fitness traits and body scores are major factors and every 50 … kg of extra weight rises the forage cost in average of 0,11 €cents. The mid-weight cows produce 25 kg of milk daily but …
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The purpose of this document is to describe the features of the Medium Term Outlook (MTO) covering the period 2011 to 2021. The MTO is a plausible future for the international and domestic agri-food sectors based on current policies in Canada and other countries as of Fall 2011. It serves as a...
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This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...
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The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting performance of implied volatility in the live and feeder cattle optionsmarkets. In both markets, implied volatility is an upwardly biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized...
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This paper investigates whether the accuracy of outlook hog price forecasts can be improvedusing composite forecasts in an out-of-sample context. Price forecasts from four wellrecognizedoutlook programs are combined with futures-based forecasts, ARIMA, andunrestricted Vector Autoregressive (VAR)...
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Michigan. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal …
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