Agricultural options can enable farmers to obtain some of the same types of price protection currently available through the government's agricultural programs. Farmers can use agricultural options to reduce the price variability that they face when they sell their commodities, without...

Risk-efficient portfolios from a subset of marketing strategies were identified using Target-MOTAD. Portfolios were generated for Illinois, Arkansas, and South Carolina to determine whether regional price and yield characteristics affected the optimal marketing strategy selection during...

Using dichotomous logit analysis, the study measures the effects of relative price perceptions and demographic factors on the probability of restaurant catfish consumption in the United States. The study uses data from the 1988 Southern Regional Aquaculture Center Consumer Survey. <P>Relative price...</p>