Impact of Railroad Contracts on Grain Bids to Farmers

Steven D. Hanson, C. Phillip Baumel and Daniel Schnell

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The deregulation of railroads by the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 reversed nearly a century of prohibition of contracts between railroads and shippers/receivers. This paper presents an analysis of the impact that railroad contracts have on grain bids to corn, wheat, and soybean farmers. The empirical results indicate that destination contracts had significant impacts on prices bid to corn and soybean farmers, while origin contracts had significant and large impacts on prices bid to wheat farmers.

Date: 1989-08-01
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Published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 1989, vol. 71 no. 3, pp. 638-646

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