- Basis Contract
USDA, Risk Management Agency, September 1997
A basis contract transfers the basis risk and opportunity from the seller to the buyer on
the date of the contract. The producer has eliminated the "basis" part of price
risk, but has retained the futures risk.
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- Fixed Price Contract
USDA, Risk Management Agency, September 1997
A fixed price contract transfers all price risk and opportunity from the seller to the
buyer on the date of the trade.
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- Contracts as a Risk
Management Tool
Charles Hall and Michael Langemeier, Texas Agricultural Extension Service,
March 1999
A contract is usually defined as a written or oral agreement between two or more parties
involving an enforceable commitment to do or refrain from doing something.
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- Legal
Issues Involving Cash Forward Grain Contracts
Roger A. McEowen, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, October
1998
Cash forward grain contracts are subject to some aspects of commercial law.
Commercial laws are generally the same across all jurisdictions.
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- Cash Grain Contracts
USDA, Risk Management Agency, September 1997
Producers should carefully evaluate a contract's risk/reward profile before
entering into any contract to make sure that their financial situation, production
prospects, and personal preferences for risk are consistent with a specific cash grain
contract or marketing strategy.
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- Minimum Price Contract
Mark Waller, Steve Amosson, William Tierney and Kevin Dhuyvetter,
Texas Agricultural Extension Service, April 1998
The advantages include; locks in a minimum price but has upside potential,
provides some leverage in obtaining credit, establishes a price floor and helps in
production management decisions, no need to deal directly in futures or options markets,
lno margin calls.
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- Understanding
Risk in Basis Contracts
Robert Wisner, Iowa State University, University Extension,
February 1997
Basis contracts are marketing instruments that establish the basis (the
difference between the local cash price and futures price) used to determine the price
paid for grain or soybeans at a later time.
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- Commonly Used Grain
Contracts
Robert Wisner, Iowa State University, University Extension,
December 1996
Common types of contracts include forward cash, basis, delayed price, minimum
price, maximum price (for feed purchases), and hedge-to-arrive contracts .
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- Hog Cash Contracts
Allen C. Wellman, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension,
1996
This publication briefly discusses the traditional provisions of a fixed
price forward cash contract for a seller of livestock. This review is followed by a
listing of the major types of current long-term hog marketing contracts available to hog
producers.
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- Hog
Cash Contracts- Advantages and Disadvatages
Allen C. Wellman, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension,
1996
This publication covers the possible advantages and disadvantages of
traditional and long-term cash forward contracts for hog producers and for buyers (most
often a packer).
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- Contract Hog Production
Michael R. Langemeier, Kansas State University Research &
Extension, July 1993
The contractor owns and provides feeder pig pinishing contracts and breeding
stock for feeder pig production contracts, and typically bears the costs associated with
feed, medication, and transportation.
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- Production
and Marketing Contracts in the Pork Industry
Kenneth A. Foster, Cooperative Extension Service Purdue University,
August 1993
This publication points out some of the benefits of contracting for producers
to be risk alleviation, reduced capital requirements, stabilized cash flow, and use of
idle resources.
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- Hedging Vs. Cash
Contracts
Lynn H. Lutgen, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, July
1977
There is substantial risk in agricultural production and marketing. Weather,
insects, disease, world conditions and other circumstances can affect production and
costs.
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