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Why a Well Functioning Market Generates Asymmetry of Farm and Wholesale Prices for Hogs and Pork
(2010-11)
of the market. However, application of economic theory of the market clearing process in a well-functioning, competitive live-stock market shows that weekly prices will move asymmetrically. Studies that confirm asymmetric weekly price movements in farm...
Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Characteristics and Importance to Climatic Uncertainty
(2002-02)
This paper details the importance of indigenous knowledge systems in developing countries around the world. Farmers, communities, and households that live in risky environments, have developed intricate systems of diversification that help secure...
Economic Impact of U.S. Pork Trade, 1986-2007
(2008-02)
The changes in U.S. pork trade in the past 22 years are quite impressive. U.S. pork exports have grown from 86 million pounds carcass weight equivalent in 1986 to 3.1 billion pounds in 2007. This paper discusses the changes in pork trade since 1986...
Economic Impact of U.S. Pork Trade, 1986-2006
(2007-01)
The changes in U.S. pork trade in the past 21 years are quite impressive. U.S. pork exports have grown from 86 million pounds carcass weight equivalent in 1986 to 3 billion pounds in 2006. This paper discusses the changes in pork trade since 1986...
Economic Impact of U.S. Pork Trade, 1986-2008
(2009-04)
The changes in U.S. pork trade in the past 23 years are quite impressive. U.S. pork exports have grown from 86 million pounds carcass weight equivalent in 1986 to 3.1 billion pounds in 2007. This paper discusses the changes in pork trade since 1986...
U.S. Pork Imports and Exports
(2006-05)
The changes in U.S. pork trade in the past 20 years are quite impressive. U.S. pork exports have grown from 86 million pounds carcass weight equivalent in 1986 to 2.66 billion pounds in 2005. This paper discusses the changes in pork trade since 1986....
Cash Ethanol Cross-Hedging Opportunities
(2002)
Increased use of alternative fuels and low commodity prices have contributed to the recent expansion of the US ethanol industry. As with any competitive industry, there exists some level of output price risk in the form ...
Performance Evaluation of the U.S. Hog Slaughter Industry
(2003-05)
slaughter hog market. These performance norms are then confronted with observed weekly price/quantity relationships over the 1991-2001 period to compare observed market performance with the ideal performance norms derived from the economic theory of a...
Analysis of USDA Mandatory Hog Price Data 2002-2006
(2007-06)
The USDA Mandatory Price Reporting System's price data reports started in 2001 as part of the Livestock Reporting Act of 1999. This analysis summarizes reports for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006....
Analysis of USDA Mandatory Hog Price Data
(2006-05)
The USDA Mandatory Price Reporting System Price Data Reports started in 2001 as part of the Livestock Reporting Act of 1999. Each weekday USDA releases three reports on negotiated hog prices which are named after their release times. The first...
Finding Solutions to Ethical Problems in Agriculture
(2002-05)
This paper distinguishes between two types of ethical problems. A Type I ethical problem is one in which there is no consensus as to what is ethical. A Type II ethical problem is one in which there is a consensus as to what is ethical...
Economic Feasibility of Impermeable Lagoon Covers
(2002-04)
This paper addresses the economic feasibility of complying with the proposed rule of “a zero discharge requirement from the production area that does not allow for an overflow under any circumstances,” presented as “Option 5” on page 3060...
The Ethical Challenges Farming: A Report on Conversations with Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers
(2004-09)
Interviews with Missouri corn and soybean farmers reveal what farmers consider are important ethical challenges in agriculture. In contrast to the literature, which characterizes ethical challenges in term of philosophical debates about soil...
The Effect of Trust on Public Support for Biotechnology: Evidence from the U.S. Biotechnology Study, 1997-1998
(2002-05)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which trust directly affects public support for biotechnology, particularly in applications to food production and genetic modification of crop plants. Unlike previous research in which trust...
Factors Affecting Wheat Proteins Premiums
(2003-10)
This study used the Rosen methodology of deriving a marginal implicit price series of a characteristic from traditional first-stage hedonic modeling and then using this series to estimate a demand model for the characteristic ...
Are Hedonic Second-Stage Characteristic Demand Reflective of Actual Characteristic Demands?
(2003-10)
Employing characteristic demand modeling theory to derive input characteristic values, we used these values to estimate characteristic demand models and compare results from this procedure (indirect) to characteristic ...
Trust in Scientists and Food Manufacturers, with Implications for the Public Support of Biotechnology
(2005-07)
The purpose of this paper is to determine what factor affect trust in scientists and food manufacturers, and to examine how trust in these institutions affects public support for biotechnology. Data from the U.S. Biotechnology Study reveal...
The Ethics of Constrained Choice: How the Industrialization of Agriculture Impacts Farming and Farmer Behavior
(2004-06)
The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production occurs, but also impacts the decisions farmers make in important ways. First, constraints created by the economic environment of farming limit what...
Emerging IP Markets: The Tokyo Grain Exchange Non-GMO Soybean Contract
(2002-05)
This research provides an overview of the development of the Tokyo Grain Exchange non-GMO soybean contract as an identity preserved futures contract. The development of this contract is unique, relative to the development ...
Crop Basis Patterns in the Presence of Spatial Competition and Government Intervention
(2002-05)
This study analyzes the effect of the Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP) program, established under the Federal Agriculture Improvement Reform (FAIR) act of 1996, on corn and soybean basis pattern patterns in Missouri. Additionally, spatial competition...