type="main" xml:lang="fr" <p>La culture du canola aux États-Unis a crû considérablement au cours de la dernière décennie. Cette culture comporte des risques et rivalise avec d'autres cultures pour lesquelles divers mécanismes de réduction des risques ont été mis en place. Les...</p>

ABSTRACT Changes in grain handling technologies and favorable terms on rail services are encouraging construction of state of the art grain handling facilities. Given these are high fixed and low marginal cost operations that are becoming increasingly vertically interdependent, the investments...

The grain handling sector in Canada and the United States is vital to agriculture and trade. In a typical year on the Canadian prairies, about 140,000 producers deliver some 20 to 30 mmt of grain for export to primary elevators. In the United States, about 2.1 million producers deliver about 300...

The presence of multiple sources of uncertainty complicates hedging decisions. One of these is the output price and its correlation with input prices. The other is how far forward a firm covers its positions. This study analyzes hedging strategies for grain importers as processors. The...

Recent legislation in the transportation industry has stimulated a move toward more flexibility in railroad pricing and has consequently provided the impetus for the analysis of transportation demand. Modal demands for grain transportation are analyzed in this paper using a derived demand...

This paper describes the extent and characteristics of differentiation in the international wheat market. Results indicate that the degree of differentiation has increased in the last 15 years. A hedonic price function is specified and estimated to examine implicit prices for characteristics and...

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