Proft Maximizing Hedging Strategies for Managers and Members of Vertical Beef Alliances

Vertical alliances are an increasingly common form of organization for participants in the beef industry. The implications of combining feeding and packing margins into one alliance are investigated. Moving average based selective hedging strategies are used to hedge the major inputs and outputs f...

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Main Author:	Claus, Lora Hamerschlag
Other Authors:	Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Published:	Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:	moving average cattle risk hedging alliance
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31578 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302005-194456/

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spelling	ndltd-VTETD-oai-vtechworks.lib.vt.edu-10919-315782020-09-26T05:38:39Z Proft Maximizing Hedging Strategies for Managers and Members of Vertical Beef Alliances Claus, Lora Hamerschlag Agricultural and Applied Economics Purcell, Wayne D. Kenyon, David E. Reaves, Dixie Watts moving average cattle risk hedging alliance Vertical alliances are an increasingly common form of organization for participants in the beef industry. The implications of combining feeding and packing margins into one alliance are investigated. Moving average based selective hedging strategies are used to hedge the major inputs and outputs for cattle owners and packers to improve the level of mean revenue to the alliance. The success of the hedging program is evaluated from mean-variance and cash-flow perspectives. Master of Science 2014-03-14T20:32:59Z 2014-03-14T20:32:59Z 2003-02-14 2005-03-30 2005-05-24 2005-05-24 Thesis etd-03302005-194456 http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31578 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302005-194456/ LHC.pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ application/pdf Virginia Tech
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description	Vertical alliances are an increasingly common form of organization for participants in the beef industry. The implications of combining feeding and packing margins into one alliance are investigated. Moving average based selective hedging strategies are used to hedge the major inputs and outputs for cattle owners and packers to improve the level of mean revenue to the alliance. The success of the hedging program is evaluated from mean-variance and cash-flow perspectives. === Master of Science
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title	Proft Maximizing Hedging Strategies for Managers and Members of Vertical Beef Alliances
title_short	Proft Maximizing Hedging Strategies for Managers and Members of Vertical Beef Alliances
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Proft Maximizing Hedging Strategies for Managers and Members of Vertical Beef Alliances

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