Grid pricing of fed cattle has gained popularity as one way to try to improve vertical coordination of the beef marketing system. Grid pricing eliminates much of the subsidization by producers with high quality cattle to those with low quality cattle when fed cattle are sold on an average live...

Cattle feeding enterprises operate amid variability originating in prices and production. Thisresearch explicitly models yield risks related to cattle feeding by relating the mean and varianceof yield performance factors to observable conditioning variables. The results demonstratethat pen...

Extension marketing economists commit substantial resources to outlook and market analysis. Producers demand this information and use it to make production and marketing decisions. This study analyzes responses to a marketing survey of producers and extension marketing economists to discern...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationships between grain farm and farmer profiles and their respective choices to use forward pricing techniques and revenue protection crop insurance to manage risk. Design/methodology/approach: An e-mail survey of Midwestern grain...