individually to determine if they were effective in minimizing down side risk, and combined to determine if integration created … side risk in wheat and corn, but not significantly in soybeans. Marketing alternatives generally increase the up side … potential of gross revenue per acre, while doing little to minimize the down side risk. The integration of crop insurance …

Bidding competition plays an important role in price discovery and the determination of suppliers in international … payoffs. In addition, there were three particularly interesting extensions from conventional auction models that were examined … improve our understanding of a very important mechanism of procurement and competition in international grain trading. For …

and bidding is that of import tendering which is used for both price determination and the allocation of purchases among …

selection; and recent changes in handling, procurement, and marketing. …

. Results indicate that EU sugar policy reforms will increase the Caribbean sugar price from 8.7 to 9.96 cents, but will not ….S. sugar imports will increase to 1.9 million tons and wholesale price will decrease from 24.89 to 23.79 cents per pound. Under … this scenario, it is also expected that the Caribbean price will increase from 8.7 to 12.1 cents per pound. Brazil will …

opportunity and risk for grain shippers. In this study, a stochastic simulation model was developed to evaluate the tradeoffs and …

is respecified. Management is redefined as a specialized type of labor and two additional resources, information and risk … bearing capacity, are added. Profits accrue not to management but to those able to bear the risk inherent in production …