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AgManager.info: 2011 Risk and Profit Conference Proceedings
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2011 Risk & Profit Conference
August 18-19, 2011 Manhattan, KS

The Risk and Profit Conference is hosted annually by the Department of Agricultural Economics that provides an opportunity for key agricultural decision makers to interact with each other and with faculty.

2011 Risk and Profit Conference Proceedings

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TITLE Author/Presenter FILE

GENERAL SESSIONS

   
SESSION I: Hedging in 2011: What's Changed and What Remains the Same Fred Seamon
CME Group
PDF
SESSION II A: Livestock Market Outlook Glynn Tonsor
Kansas State University
PDF
SESSION II B: Grain Market Outlook Dan O'Brien
Kansas State University
PDF
SESSION III: A Conversation With A Kansas Producer Kent and Rebecca Ott PDF
     

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

   
1. Making Crop Insurance Volatility Work for You Art Barnaby PDF (Slides)
PDF (Discussion)
2. Pre-Harvest Hedging Strategies for Volatile Times

Orlen Grunewald

PDF
3. 2011-2012 Grain Market Outlook and Basis Issues: A Deeper Look Dan O'Brien PDF

4. Basics of Futures and Options: Part 1

Sean Fox PDF

5. Basics of Futures and Options: Part 2

Sean Fox PDF
6. Are We Rational When It Comes to Land Prices? Bryan Schurle PDF
7. Tax-free Section 1031 Land Exchanges Kent Miller PDF

8. Machinery Costs – Forecasting Custom Rates and More…

Kevin Dhuyvetter PDF
9. Agricultural Productivity at the National, State, and Farm Level

David Lambert, Elizabeth Yeager, Michael Langemeier

PDF (Slides)
PDF (Paper)

10. What Do We Do with Direct Payments?

Troy Dumler PDF

11. Macroeconomics and the Business of Farming

Vincent Amanor-Boadu

PDF

12. Expectations for Inflation and Interest Rates

Allen Featherstone

PDF

13. Drivers of Fed Cattle Basis and Implications for Feedlot Operators

Jeremiah McElligott, Glynn Tonsor

PDF
14. International Benchmarking of Beef Production Michael Langemeier, Claus Deblitz PDF (Paper)

15. The 2010 Centennial Census

Joe Arata PDF

16. Comparison of 1970’s Farms With Now

Kevin Herbel

 

17. Biofuels Contracting for Cellulosic Feedstocks

Jason Bergtold, Jason Fewell, Jeff Williams PDF

18. Cropping Decisions, Risk Management Practices, and Willingness to Supply Biomass 

Jeff Peterson, Russell Graves

PDF (Survey)

19. Impact Analysis of the Walnut Creek Intensive Groundwater Use Control Area

Bill Golden, John Leatherman PDF

20. Using a Spreadsheet to Manage Expenses

Robert Burton, Jr. PDF

21. Agritourism Venturing: Conversations of Possibility in Kansas

Vincent Amanor-Boadu

 
 
 
Previous Risk & Profit Conference Proceedings (2002-2011)
 
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