Marketing agreement impacts in an experimental market for fed cattle.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  May 1, 1999 ;   Ward, Clement E. Koontz, Stephen R. Dowty, Tracy L. Trapp, James N. Peel, Derrel S.;   787 words ...Procurement of fed cattle by packers through non-cash-price...There are numerous examples in the fed cattle market over the past two decades of...Feeders agreed to market up to 800,000 fed cattle annually from seven feedlots to three...

The value of commodity purchase contracts with limited price risk....

The Energy Journal;  July 1, 1991 ;   Teisberg, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, Thomas J.;   787 words ......These contracts, which we call limited price risk contracts, are significantly easier for...existence of many brokers promoting limited price risk gas contracts, suggest that these contracts...innovative contracts, which we call limited price risk contracts, are now being signed ...

Boost for arable price risk management awareness scheme.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  December 6, 2005 ;     305 words ......awarded a pounds 500,000 grant to improve price risk management within the arable industry...Scheme (ADS). Promoting the benefits of price risk management is one of HGCA's priorities...programme to increase the understanding of price risk management and reach a much larger audience...

Producer price risk and quality measurement.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  August 1, 1999 ;   Hueth, Brent Ligon, Ethan;   787 words ......shield them from much production and price risk. However, such contracts ordinarily are...seems much less clear when we consider price risk. Why don't intermediaries make a payment...farmgate? We hypothesize that the reason for price risk is that unobserved investments by the...

Enron Poised to Become Industry's White Knight.(Enron Corp. price risk...

Chemical Market Reporter;  May 21, 2001 ;     787 words ......marketing. Salvation could be in the form of price risk management, says Houston-based Enron...on chemical makers' horizons, but now price risk management may become a necessity. The...Europe and Asia, he adds. Interest in price risk management tools had briefly flared up...

Opt4's Technology Offers Long-Term Solution for Managing Commodity Price...

PR Newswire;  November 21, 2002 ;     483 words ......and have had few options for managing price risk. Consider the case of an ice cream manufacturer...cost-effective alternatives for managing cream price risk. Until now. Opt4's OTC Online(SM) transaction...forward contracting and also transfer price risk to sophisticated dealers and ...

Impact of Mandatory Price Reporting on Fed Cattle Market Integration

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics;  December 1, 2006 ;   Pendell, Dustin L; Schroeder, Ted C;   787 words ...Geographic fed cattle markets are important because cattle are bulky and...segmented markets. This study uses USDA-AMS reported fed cattle market price data from five U.S. regional fed cattle markets to investigate the effects of mandatory...

Aggregation of price risk over commodities: an economic index number...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  November 1, 2007 ;   Coyle, Barry T.;   787 words ......not been presented for aggregation of price risk over commodities. (1,2) Such aggregation...important to develop summary measures of price risk in a multicommodity setting. The absence...research. Common approaches to aggregating price risk are (a) to reduce the dimension of the...

Economists expecting better times: Fed cattle prices depend on Japanese

The Billings Gazette;  February 4, 2004 ;   Gransbery, Jim;   602 words ...Getting U.S. fed cattle prices back to their level before...and Japanese consumption, Watts said fed cattle cash prices were $91 a hundredweight...encouraging," Watts said. By Jan. 21, the fed cattle cash price had risen to $88 a hundredweight...

Professor Tom James Book Energy Markets: Price Risk Management and Trading...

M2 Presswire;  January 25, 2008 ;     590 words ......Professor Tom James Book Energy Markets: Price Risk Management and Trading Includes A Wealth...announced the addition of Energy Markets: Price Risk Management and Trading to their offering...company performance using the correct price risk strategies and tools. As a company exposed...

Managing Energy Price Risk

Supply Management;  July 6, 2006 ;   Dobson, Ian;   410 words ...BOOKS Managing Energy Price Risk Edited by Vincent Kammski Risk Books. 99 ** This book is not aimed...options and swaps as a means to offset their exposure to energy price risk. In the UK. we tend to use specialists/brokers for this work as...

Price Discovery and Pricing Choice Under Divergent Supply Scenarios in an...

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics;  December 1, 2005 ;   Ward, Clement E;   787 words ......data from an experimental market, the Fed Cattle Market Simulator, encompassing live weight...basis. Key words: experimental market, fed cattle, market simulator, price discovery, pricing...estimating price discovery models for fed cattle using industry transaction data (in ...

Fed cattle supplies in 2005.(LIVESTOCK)

The Kiplinger Agriculture Letter;  October 1, 2004 ;     120 words ...Fed cattle supplies are extremely tight and will get even tighter into next year...Down the road, that means more calves, but it further stints supplies of fed cattle now. So prices will be strong, mostly in the mid-$80s/cwt., into 2005...

Alternative Theories and Empirical Approaches to Price Discovery: An...

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics;  December 1, 2003 ;   Carlberg, Jared G; Ward, Clement E;   787 words ......research. Key Words: derived demand, fed cattle, partial adjustment model, price...price discovery concerns pertain to fed cattle due to rapid consolidation in the...meatpacking industry. Therefore, using fed cattle as an example, a distinction is...

Price risk.(Outlook)(Brief Article)

Dairy Today;  September 1, 2002 ;     59 words ...Price risk. With prices continuing to fluctuate, risk management tools--forward contracting, futures and options--will become even more important...