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Interest Rate and Commodity Price Impacts on Farm-Level Financials
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The agriculture industry has been around for hundreds of years. Although farmers and ranchers work every day to put food on the tables of billions of people from all around the world, most agricultural producers require ...
Optimization of Soybean Buying Strategies Using Derivatives
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The portfolio model of hedging framework, based off Markowitz (1952), is used to determine the best mix of futures, basis, and option contracts to hedge a soybean purchase from PNW 28 weeks in to the future. Eighteen options ...
Real Option Analysis of Primary Rail Contracts in Grain Shipping
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Grain shipping for a country elevator involves many sources of risk and uncertainty. In response to these dynamic challenges faced by shippers, railroad carriers offer various types of forward contracting instruments and ...
Risk Management Strategies for Commodity Processors
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Recent years have witnessed an increase in agricultural commodity price volatility. This thesis analyzes different models to derive optimal hedge strategies for commodity processors, with two components addressed. One is ...
Minimum Cost Beef Backgrounding Ration Utilizing Alternative Feedstuffs and Stochastic Prices
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Cattle producers on the Northern Great Plains have many feedstuffs available. Feedstuffs comprise a large portion of direct costs producers face, and to be profit maximizing producers they look to minimize this cost. This ...
The Effects of Deregulation on Rail Rates: A Study on Wheat, Barley, Corn, Oat, and Soybean
(North Dakota State University, 2006)
Although the original intent of this study was to do a pre-and post-deregulation assessment of rail rates per ton-mile, the results using post-deregulation data show a significant decrease in rail rates between 1981 and ...
Stakeholder Preferences for Water Quality Alternatives in the Red River Basin
(North Dakota State University, 2007)
The objective of this research is to estimate stakeholder preferences for management alternatives within the Red River of the North basin. Specifically, this thesis analyzes preferences related to water quality, water-based ...
The Risks Associated with Barley Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The market for barley has shifted from a demand for exports and livestock feed, to a demand for human food and alcohol production. Due to the crop qualities required for malting in the alcohol industry, barley is perceived ...
Regional Differences in Beverage and Fruit Consumption in China
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the impact of regional and other demographic characteristics, such as age, education level, and household income, on food consumption in China. In total, data for 2342 households ...
A Multivariate Approach to Forecasting Dairy Imports
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The global economy is becoming more connected with every passing year. Developing countries continue to lift themselves out of poverty and their markets are hungry for the opportunity to trade goods with nations all over ...