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Using Commodity Futures as a Price Forecasting Tool
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
Commodity futures prices can serve as a mechanism for price discovery for either present or expected future prices. A market is defined as efficient if it accounts for all public and nonpublic information in determining ...
An Introduction to Basis
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide is one in a series designed to help you better understand available marketing strategies. The focus of this guide is to help agricultural producers and agribusinesses better understand commodity basis. As will ...
Commodity Futures Terminology
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide is intended to provide a basic understanding of commodity futures terminology. Though the terminology of trading agricultural commodities goes far beyond the scope of this guide, this information can be used to ...
Interpreting Commodity Futures and Options Price Quotes
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide is designed to help producers to understand how to interpret commodity price quotes for futures and options. Those not familiar with futures and options price quotes may find the initial process of interpretation ...
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 ...
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.
Women in Higher Education: Social Sciences at Land Grant Universities in the U.S.
(2002-02)
Viewed nationally, the rapid entry rate of women into higher education in the U.S. during recent decades gives gender a special place among the categories of academic diversity to consider. Over the past twenty years, the ...
Why a Well Functioning Market Generates Asymmetry of Farm and Wholesale Prices for Hogs and Pork
(2010-11)
Conventional wisdom suggests that weekly prices at farm, wholesale, and retail levels should exhibit symmetry. Observation of asymmetrical price movements is submitted as evidence of the existence and use of "market power" ...
An Anatomy of a Cartel: The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934
(Research in Economic History, 2008)
This paper explores the nature and causes of the cartel compliance crisis that befell the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) one year after its passage in 1933. We employ a simple game-theoretic model of the NIRA's ...
Land Owner Characteristics and Perceptions in Northeast and Southeast Missouri: The Economic and Social Value of Flood Plain Agroforestry to Rural Development Projects
(2003-11)
Agroforestry is a familiar land-use strategy in many areas of the tropics, where intensive management systems integrate trees, crops and livestock to maximize production on minimal acreage, mitigating the impacts of slash ...
Production and Marketing Characteristics of U.S. Pork Producers - 2003
(2004-07)
Bertold Brecht once said, “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” Because things in the U.S. pork industry never seem to “stay the way they are,” researchers at the University of ...
Coping and Adapting to Increased Climate Variability in the Andes
(2003-07)
The negative impact of climate change may be reduced with mitigation strategies in developing countries. Some studies project that developing countries in the Tropics will be worse off than developed countries under different ...
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 ...
Concentration, Contracting and Competition: Problems in Using the Packers and Stockyards Act to Supplement Antitrust
(Competition Policy International, 2010-04)
Consolidation and increased concentration in the agrifood sector over the past two decades, combined with an increased use of alternative marketing agreements in the poultry and livestock industries, have fueled concerns ...
Benefits of COOL to the Swine Industry
(2003-05)
The 2002 Farm Bill contained a controversial provision mandating country of origin labeling (COOL) of certain unprocessed foods (beef, pork, lamb, fish, seafood, peanuts, fruits and vegetables) sold through non-small grocery ...
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 ...