Price forecasts are critical to market participants when making production and marketing decisions and to policymakers … volatile conditions experienced in the corn market since 2006, the need for price forecasting has become even more critical …. The purpose of this paper is to explore an alternative econometric procedure to forecast the season-average price of corn …

market power (defined as the ability to pay a price for corn that is below its marginal value product net of processing cost …. Our results return a transportation cost of $0.12 per bushel per mile (5% of the corn price under average distance … (16% of the average corn price in the sample), of which $0.34 is explained by spatial differentiation and the rest by the …

We quantify the relationship between Tanzanian and external maize markets while also accounting for domestic influences … show that, compared to external factors, domestic factors exert a greater influence on Tanzanian maize markets. Further …, the mechanisms through which trade policies influence maize markets involve interactions with both external market shocks …

that bubbles in feed do not appear to be associated with bubbles in the price of hogs. Instead there are temporary … common trend. This finding sheds new insight into the price behaviour of commodities that depend for input costs on other …

USDA historical reports. Expected value of absolute price changes (EABS) of four days before and four days after were …

We investigate the price and volatility transmission between natural gas, fertilizer (ammonia), and corn markets, an … vice versa. This result is robust to a specification using crude oil price as an alternative to natural gas price to … linkage between natural gas prices and those of fertilizer and corn during that period, while linkages in price level and …