IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/ajagec/v67y1985i1p15-23..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Forward and Futures Contracts as Preharvest Commodity Marketing Instruments

Author

Listed:
  • Ray D. Nelson

Abstract

Empirically significant differences between forward and futures contracts evidence their imperfect substitutability as preharvest marketing instruments. Certain combinations of market conditions make the two types of contracts complementary rather than interchangeable. Forwards and futures differ conceptually because of lumpiness, marking-to-market, and basis. Of these differences, basis constitutes the most important factor. Although lumpiness may affect smaller producers, it represents an inconsequential detail for larger traders. In given years, interest income (cost) resulting from futures margin requirements may reach important absolute amounts. Relative to size of basis and price changes, this factor fails to attain a magnitude of practical significance.

Suggested Citation

  • Ray D. Nelson, 1985. "Forward and Futures Contracts as Preharvest Commodity Marketing Instruments," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 67(1), pages 15-23.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:67:y:1985:i:1:p:15-23.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1240819
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. T. P. Zacharias & D. A. Zaunbrecher & H. D. Traylor & B. E. McManus, 1987. "An analysis of preharvest soybean marketing strategies in louisiana using forward and futures contracts," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 3(4), pages 413-426.
    2. Xiaoli L. Etienne & Mindy L. Mallory & Scott H. Irwin, 2017. "Estimating the cost of pre‐harvest forward contracting corn and soybeans in Illinois before and after 2007," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(3), pages 358-377, June.
    3. Lanfranco, Bruno, 1997. "Beef cattle futures markets: Is it possible in Uruguay?," Research Reports and Working Papers 310392, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria (INIA).
    4. Ashok Mishra & Barry Goodwin, 2006. "Revenue insurance purchase decisions of farmers," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(2), pages 149-159.
    5. Pennings, Joost M. E. & Heijman, Willem J. M., 1995. "Prospects for an electricity futures market A comment," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 21(4), pages 283-284, December.
    6. Heidelbach, Olaf, 2007. "Efficiency of selected risk management instruments: An empirical analysis of risk reduction in Kazakhstani crop production," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 40, number 92323.
    7. Lim, Terence & Lo, Andrew W. & Merton, Robert C. & Scholes, Myron S., 2006. "The Derivatives Sourcebook," Foundations and Trends(R) in Finance, now publishers, vol. 1(5–6), pages 365-572, April.
    8. Mark A. Edelman & Brian H. Schmiesing & Douglas R. Olsen, 1990. "Use of selected marketing alternatives by Iowa farmers," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 6(2), pages 121-132.
    9. Stringer, Chris & Sanders, Dwight, 2006. "Forward Contracting Costs for Illinois Corn and Soybeans: Implications for Producer Pricing Strategies," Journal of the ASFMRA, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, vol. 2006, pages 1-8.
    10. Kuwayama, Mikio, 1994. "Futures markets as a risk management tool for Latin American commodity exports: some pending issues," Series Históricas 9607, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    11. Shi, Wei & Irwin, Scott H. & Good, Darrel L. & Hagedorn, Lewis A., 2004. "The Cost Of Forward Contracting," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20409, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    12. Good, Darrel L. & Irwin, Scott H. & Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes & Hagedorn, Lewis A., 2005. "The Pricing Performance of Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans over 1995-2003," AgMAS Project Research Reports 14775, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:67:y:1985:i:1:p:15-23.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.