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Differences in Prices and Price Risk Across Alternative Marketing Arrangements Used in the Fed Cattle Industry
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Information on prices and price risk differences across marketing arrangements aids fed cattle producers in making choices about marketing methods. As part of the congressionally mandated Livestock and Meat Marketing Study, we investigated fed cattle price and price risk differences across marketing arrangements. The analysis uses data representing cattle purchased by 29 large beef packing plants from October 2002 through March 2005. Results indicate that marketing agreements offered the best...
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Marketing agreement impacts in an experimental market for fed cattle.
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The value of commodity purchase contracts with limited price risk. (equilibrium market valuation of limited price risk commodity purchase contracts)(includes appendix)
The Energy Journal
; This paper describes and demonstrates the equilibrium market valuation of commodity purchase contracts with price ceilings or price floors or both. These contracts, which we call limited price risk contracts, are significantly easier for buyers and sellers to agree upon than fixed price contracts
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Boost for arable price risk management awareness scheme.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England)
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Producer price risk and quality measurement.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
; Producers of fruits and vegetables, especially for the fresh market, operate in an unusually risky economic environment. While these farmers face the same sorts of production risk common to much of agriculture, they also produce a perishable commodity whose price is subject to unusually large
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Enron Poised to Become Industry's White Knight.(Enron Corp. price risk management strategy)(Statistical Data Included)
Chemical Market Reporter
; SKYROCKETING FEEDSTOCK costs are undermining the chemical industry's long-term competitiveness. In response, the industry is searching for new tools to add to its existing areas of expertise in engineering, technology and marketing. Salvation could be in the form of price risk management, says
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Impact of Mandatory Price Reporting on Fed Cattle Market Integration
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
; ... producers relied on the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) livestock market news reports for fed cattle price information. These reports were generated from ... transactions and reporting those effects of the excluded transactions, and auditing tran
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Aggregation of price risk over commodities: an economic index number approach.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
; Index number theory is commonly used to motivate aggregation of prices over commodities. In particular, three price indexes (Fisher, Tornqvist, Walsh) are favored by the most popular criteria (economic test and weighted stochastic approaches), and these three indexes closely approximate each other
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Economists expecting better times: Fed cattle prices depend on Japanese
The Billings Gazette
; Getting U.S. fed cattle prices back to their level before "mad cow" disease was found in December depends on the Japanese consumer who has developed a taste for high quality American beef. That is the market assessment of Myles Watts, who gave a presentation to the Billings business community
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Managing Energy Price Risk
Supply Management
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Price Discovery and Pricing Choice Under Divergent Supply Scenarios in an Experimental Market for Fed Cattle
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
; Previous research has not addressed the impacts of alternative supply conditions on price discovery and pricing choice. This study estimated models with data from an experimental market, the Fed Cattle Market Simulator, encompassing live weight, dressed weight, and grid pricing under two
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