Planning strategies depend in part on the supply flow structure of a supply chain. In food supply chains, many firms are constrained by raw material supply (e.g. vegetables and milk). This paper first examines the economic consequences of constrained supply in agricultural cooperatives....

Farm risk management for income stabilization is on-going issue. An applied work has been performed to measure farm risk using a stochastic model. Risk management tools, with symmetric as well as asymmetric impacts, are then tested and compared through ad hoc statistics. Normal farm business...

Après avoir synthétisé les résultats des analyses économiques conduites sur la gestion des risques de marché en agriculture, sujet complexe et récurrent dans les débats de politique agricole, nous suggérons quelques pistes de réflexion pour guider l’action politique. Ainsi, cette...

Farm risk management for income stabilization is on-going issue. An applied work has been performed to measure farm risk using a stochastic model. Risk management tools, with symmetric as well as asymmetric impacts, are then tested and compared through ad hoc statistics. Normal farm business...

European market deregulation is destabilizing the economic environment of French farmers leading to an increase in market risks. In the dairy sector, the 2003 CAP reform has lead to major changes (removal of export subsidies and increase in the European milk quota). The dairy supply chain is now...

The volatility of hog prices is high compared to most agricultural commodities. However, European hog producers do not benefit from any agricultural policy support. Through the continuous production process and induced selling activity on spot markets, producers benefit from a natural moving...

[fre] Analyse structurelle et analyse de la performance d'un marché agricole grâce à l'étude simultanée des variations des prix dans le système considéré. Méthode et types de conclusion. [eng] Arima analysis of a competitive price vector applied to the hog sector in France - Summary :...