Authors

M. Powers

Bulletin No.

545

Document Type

Bulletin

Department

Department of Economics

Description

This study was made to determine if hedging and forward contracting by farmers and agribusiness firms enhanced their position to borrow money-more specifically, whether lending agencies considered the two practices enough of a risk reduction to permit an increase in the size of loans made on given assets or to encourage favorable interest rate reductions charged such loans.

Keywords

agricultural hedging contracts, agricultural forward contracting, agricultural credit

Pages

27

Publication Date

6-1968

Type

text

Format

application/pdf

Language

en

Publisher

South Dakota Experiment Station, South Dakota State University

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