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Cost of Forward Contracting Hard Red Winter Wheat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

John P. Townsend
Affiliation:
Panhandle State University
B. Wade Brorsen
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University

Abstract

Two methods were used to estimate the cost of forward contracting hard red winter wheat. One hundred days before delivery, the estimated cost of forward contracting ranged from six cents/bu. to eight cents/bu. Thus, further evidence is provided that the cost of forward contracting grain is not zero.

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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2000

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