Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-30-1986

Keywords

agricultural economics, wheat production, crop contracts

Abstract

Previous hedging portfolio estimation have not explicitly tested for the effect of a widening and narrowing basis on the optimal hedge ratios. Evidence was found that winter wheat producers on the northern Great Plains may be able to hedge more effectively on the Minneapolis spring wheat contract.

Publisher

Department of Economics, South Dakota State University

Series Number

86-4

Number of Pages

15

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