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Data published in the Dairy Yearbook originate from various government agencies. Within U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data are provided by the Dairy Division. Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS); Estimates Division. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS); Procurement and...
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. Work investigates vertical price transmission of milk in the Slovak agri-food chain. The research is based on Vector Error …
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the local economy. Our study estimates the preference weights that local consumers assign to some milk attributes … including local origin and the influence on choice of a local brand of milk, which is traded by a local cooperative of producers … in Umbria (Italy). Several preference segments are found amongst fresh and UHT milk buyers by employing a Latent Class …
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In this paper, expectations along the Finnish dairy supply chain for innovation to achieve more sustainable farming systems are identified. Four focus group discussions and three interviews for low input and organic dairy supply chain members were performed. The Q Methodology was used to...
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Many Thoroughbred stallions are being bred to increasing numbers of mares. This practice raises the question of how progeny value is affected by an increased supply of foals by the same sire, which ultimately influences the sire’s value. This paper addresses that question. Three of the...
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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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