Introduction to radical, populist, and terrorist agriculture -- Understanding how radical agriculturalists think: postmodernist philosophy -- Antiglobalists -- Radical environmentalists -- Luddites -- Animal rightists -- Agrarian populism and farm fundamentalism -- Populist mythology -- Farm...

This study revisits the debate over whether a bias exists in new crop December corn and November soybeans futures and option prices. Some evidence of bias is found in December corn futures and December corn puts, but the evidence is substantially muted when transaction costs are taken into...

The 1995 marketing styles for the 25 market advisory service programs included in the AgMAS Project were developed in two steps. The first step was the construction of a detailed "menu" of the tools and strategies used by each of the advisory programs in marketing corn and soybeans. The menu...

This paper summarizes the evolutionary trends in US farm policy that have culminated in the 2014 farm bill, describes the new farm bill programs in depth, and highlights the key policy issues that arise and will play out over its planned five-year duration. This new US farm bill eliminates fixed...

The expected net return to storage is conventionally calculated as the expected change in price over the storage period minus the cost of storage. However, this value is almost always negative, thus raising the question why would anyone store. Numerous explanations have been proposed, but none...