Forward Contracting by Iowa Corn Producers: Connecting Hedging with Price Movements
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2016-10-01
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Hayes, Dermot
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Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
Abstract
In 2015, Iowa corn producers marketed approximately 2.5 billion bushels of corn and 554 million bushels of soybeans (USDA 2016). As part of their marketing strategy, some crop producers make use of pre-harvest pricing tools such as forward contracting and hedging with futures contracts.