CROSS-HEDGING FISHMEAL: EXPLORING CORN AND SOYBEAN MEAL FUTURES CONTRACTS

Cross-Hedging Fishmeal: Exploring Corn and Soybean Meal Futures Contracts

Futures for Farmers: Hedging Participation and the Mexican Corn Scheme

Administered commodity price schemes in developing countries have proved ineffective in raising farmers’ incomes and price stabilisation through futures markets is increasingly advocated as the alternative policy objective. A potential difficulty is that farmers tend not to hedge extensively, even in developed countries where access to futures markets is long established. Explanations for this ...

Cross Hedging with Single Stock Futures

This study evaluates the efficiency of cross hedging with single stock futures (SSF) contracts. We propose a new technique for hedging exposure to an individual stock that does not have options or exchange-traded SSF contracts written on it. Our method selects as a hedging instrument a portfolio of SSF contracts which are selected based on how closely matched their underlying firm characteristi...

Replacing Soybean Meal and Corn in Catfish Diets

THAD COCHRAN NATIONAL WARMWATER AQUACULTURE CENTER 127 Experiment Station Road P.O. Box 197 Stoneville, MS 38776-0197 Phone: (662) 686-3242 FAX: (662) 686-3320 www.msstate.edu/dept/tcnwac NWAC News is edited by Jimmy L. Avery. This publication is bi-annual and is available at http://tcnwac.msstate.edu//nwac_news.htm. continued on page 2 Replacing Soybean Meal and Corn in Catfish Diets Menghe Li...

Effects of Supplementing Xylose‐Treated Soybean Meal or Untreated Corn Gluten Meal to Lactating Dairy Cows

This experiment was performed to investigate whether feeding xylose-treated soybean meal (XSBM) or corn gluten meal (CGM) is economically better under field conditions. Ninety-four multiparous early lactating Holstein cows (55±5 days in milk and 2.82±0.41 body condition score) were used in a completely randomized design. Cows were randomly assigned to one of two treatments: XSBM or CGM as the m...