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Zarządzanie ryzykiem cenowym w rolnictwie w praktyce wybranych krajów na świecie
Stępień, Sebastian; Śmigla, Marta - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 12 (2012) 27
The processes of economic globalization and liberalization of international trade cause an exposure of the agricultural producers activities to increasing risk, including that related to price volatility. This requires development and implementation of a wider range of risk management...
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Optimal Cash Purchase Strategies to Reduce Fertilizer Price Risk
Kenkel, Philip L.; Kim, Taeyoon - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Fertilizer price volatility has increased dramatically. This research examines cash purchase and warehouse strategies. Seventeen years of Oklahoma fertilizer prices are examined. The results indicate that mechanical cash purchase strategies can be used to reduce the average cost or variance for...
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Florida citrus planting decisions: impacts of expected returns and price risks on varietal choice
Brown, Mark G.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - Florida Department of Citrus - 2003
A model is developed to explain Florida citrus planting levels by variety. The varietal choice is based on the expected prices and price variances/covariances of the varieties under consideration. Overall planting returns are maximized for a given level of price risk. The model's price...
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Decomposition of Variability in Farm Household Assets and Debt
Mishra, Ashok K.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 23 (2005) 2
the case of wealth, farm households will be better equipped to handle variability once the contributing sources are … identified. This study measures how much of the variability in farm household assets and debt is attributed to the variability in … and data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), results show that origin of asset and debt variability …
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Whole farm analysis-Fertiliser nitrogen can reduce deep drainage and increase profitability
Scott, J. Fiona - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2004
Opportunity cropping has been shown to reduce mean annual deep drainage compared to long fallow systems. A question that remained was the effect of added fertiliser nitrogen under each of the cropping systems and whether it would make a significant difference to amounts of deep drainage and to...
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Modelling Climate Change and Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): In Quest of Statistics
Koffi-Tessio, Egnonto M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
agricultural output is still produced by smallholder farmers who unfortunately continue to depend on climate variability. Hence … understanding the relationships between climate variability and agricultural production is therefore critical to SSA countries … empirical framework for exploring the magnitude of climate variability in the explanation of agricultural production in Sub …
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Farm household risk balancing: empirical evidence from Switzerland
de Mey, Yann; Wauters, Erwin; Schmid, Dierk; Van … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on household risk balancing behavior, i.e., strategic off-farm decisions in response to changes in expected business risk. Using Swiss FADN data, we estimate a fixed effects seemingly unrelated regression model to analyze how farm households...
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Sharing Financial Risk through Flexible Farm Lease Agreements
Edwards, William M.; Hart, Chad E. - In: Journal of the ASFMRA (2013)
A simulation model representing a north central U.S. corn and soybean farm was used to estimate the degree of financial risk borne by the tenant and the landlord under 10 different types of flexible cash leases. Probability distributions for yields, prices, and production costs were...
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Do Australian woolgrowers manage price risk rationally?
Deane, Paul; Malcolm, Bill - In: AFBM Journal 03 (2006) 2
Australian woolgrowers have not adopted price risk management in the last decade. This is despite a concerted effort at various times by participants in the wool industry to encourage growers to use hedging/forward selling. The explanation for the reluctance of woolgrowers to use futures market...
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Farm Support Payments and Risk Balancing: Implications for Financial Riskiness of Canadian Farms
Uzeaa, Florentina Nicoleta; Poon, Kenneth; Sparling, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The risk balancing literature suggests that business risk management (BRM) programs may, through risk balancing (offsetting adjustments between business risk and financial risk), lead farmers to take on more financial risk than they would take otherwise, which, in turn, increases the risk of...
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