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Did Producer Hedging Opportunities in the Live Hog Contract Decline?

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  • Fabio C. Zanini

    (The University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign)

  • Philip Garcia

    (The University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign)

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The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast techniques in the live hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive relative to a cash-only strategy. However, forecasting and hedging can contribute to price risk management improvement for risk-averse producers. Consistent with previous research, the results indicate that the live hog contract continues to offer producers attractive pricing opportunities. The findings suggests that the success of the new lean value carcass contract may depend on its ability to attract trading volume from outside the traditional production sector.

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  • Fabio C. Zanini & Philip Garcia, 1997. "Did Producer Hedging Opportunities in the Live Hog Contract Decline?," Finance 9712005, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:9712005
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    1. Minkyoung Kim & Philip Garcia & Raymond Leuthold, 2009. "Managing price risks using and local polynomial kernel forecasts," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(23), pages 3015-3026.

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    Keywords

    hedging; forecasting; risk management; live hog futures; lean hog futures;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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