Simulation of Alternative Marketing Strategies for U.S. Cotton

Christopher P. Elrod, John Robinson and James Richardson ()

No 6885, 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Three marketing strategies (selling a put option, cash sale at harvest, and cash sale in June) are simulated based on historical values and ranked based on certainty equivalents for a representative irrigated and dryland cotton farm Scenario analysis is also used to compare varying yield values.

Keywords: Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6885

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