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| Title: | Grain Contracting Strategies: The Case of Durum Wheat |
| Authors: | Wilson, William W.
Dahl, Bruce |
| Authors (Email): | Wilson, William W. (william.wilson@ndsu.edu)
Dahl, Bruce (bruce.dahl@ndsu.edu) |
| Issue Date: | 2009-08 |
| Series/Report no.: | Agribusiness & Applied Economics Report No.
648 |
| Abstract: | One of the impacts of higher prices along with greater volatility in futures, basis
and spreads is that there is pressure for greater use of cash contracts for grain. There
is a wide array of cash contracts with varying terms that pose major strategic
alternatives for buyers and the marketing system, particularly as buyers seek to use
contracting as an element of risk mitigation. Durum is a crop where many of these
issues and challenges are apparent. Durum is more risky than competing crops with
greater price, yield and quality risk. And in contrast to competing crops, futures do not
exist, cross hedging is poor and forward contracting has been used minimally.
There are three purposes of this article: Provide a survey of contract terms used
in grain contracting with growers, illustrate some issues in contracting of some of the
specialty grains (durum) in the upper Midwest, and develop a model to analyze
alternative contracting strategies in the case of durum. We introduce alternative pricing
features, and explore other alternatives and analyze them in terms of risk and return to
growers. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/55119 |
| Institution/Association: | North Dakota State University>Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics>Agribusiness & Applied Economics Report |
| Total Pages: | 73 |
| Collections: | Agribusiness & Applied Economics Report
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