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Catfish Producer Harvest Response to Production and Asymmetric Price Risk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

William Branch
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
Daniel S. Tilley
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University

Abstract

Harvest response to production and asymmetric price risk was analyzed using an ordinary least squares model. Statistically significant responses to production-quality and output price risk were indicated. Results suggest that alternative pricing strategies designed to reduce risk may alter harvest response and decrease month to month harvest variability.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1991

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