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Price Risk and Risk Management in Agriculture
Contemporary Economics, 2013 This note studies the risk-management decisions of a risk-averse farmer. The farmer faces multiple sources of price uncertainty. He sells commodities to two markets at two prices, but only one of these markets has a futures market. We show that the farmer’s optimal commodity futures market position, i.e., a cross-hedge strategy, is actually an over ...
Welzel, P, Broll, U, Wong, KP
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Methodological proposal for market risk assessment in agriculture: a case study of the Hass avocado [PDF]
Revista de Economia e Sociologia RuralThis study addresses agricultural risks as an emerging category in risk assessment and focuses on measuring market risk and its impact on producers and financial entities.
Fabio Velásquez Botero +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Sorghum's heat and drought tolerance make it, together with upland cotton, one of two crops produced profitably under dryland conditions in the U.S. Southern High Plains (SHP).
Steven Mauget +7 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Over semi-arid agricultural regions such as the U.S. Southern High Plains (SHP) producers of dryland crops need to know which management practices increase yields and decrease production risk.
Steven Mauget +6 more
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Effect of digital economy on large-scale pig farming: An empirical study from China
Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023 Large-scale farming is an important way for sustainable development of pig industry. In this regard, the digital economy has an important influence on the industrial structure and economic development, but whether it is conducive to large-scale pig ...
Kun Zhou +3 more
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Efficiency of Weather Derivatives as Primary Crop Insurance Instruments
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004 This study analyzes efficiency of weather derivatives as primary insurance instruments for six crop reporting districts that are among the largest producers of corn, cotton, and soybeans in the United States.
Dmitry V. Vedenov, Barry J. Barnett
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Hedging Crop Yields Against Weather Uncertainties—A Weather Derivative Perspective
Mathematical and Computational Applications, 2019 The effects of weather on agriculture in recent years have become a major global concern. Hence, an effective weather risk management tool (i.e., weather derivatives) that can hedge crop yields against weather uncertainties is needed.
Samuel Asante Gyamerah +2 more
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The ‘Murky’ New Orleans: A community reliving and experiencing the 2005 Hurricane Katrina
Jàmbá, 2022 No abstract available.
Alice Ncube
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021 Human health is adversely affected by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in the topsoil, entering the bodies via inhalation, ingestion, and dermal contact.
Fanjing Kong +4 more
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Experimental Research on Frost Indexes for Lycium Barbarum Flowering Phase
应用气象学报, 2020 Based on researches of frost indexes of Lycium barbarum during 2016-2018, tests of frost index are performed using an artificial frost box in 2019, focusing on flower bud, early flowering and full flowering periods. The temperature of treatment is -8—-1℃,
Duan Xiaofeng +5 more
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