Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Review of Commodity Futures Trading and Its Relationship to Agricultural Producers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Issues Related to the Jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
High Agricultural Commodity Prices
Author: Randall Dean SchnepfPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
All major U.S. agricultural program crops -- corn, barley, sorghum, oats, wheat, rice, and soybeans -- have exhibited extreme price volatility since mid-2007, while rising to record or near-record levels in early 2008. Several international organisations have announced that the sharply rising commodity prices are likely to have dire consequences for the world's vulnerable populations, particularly in import-dependent, less developed nations. In the United States, high commodity prices have pushed farm income to successive annual records and have sharply lowered government farm program costs, but they have also stoked the flames of food price inflation and have raised costs for livestock producers and food processors. In addition, high, unexpectedly volatile prices have increased the risk and costs associated with grain merchandising. In particular, they have dramatically increased the cost of routine hedging activities (i.e., pricing commodities for purchase, delivery, or use at some future date) at commodity futures exchanges and, as a result, have diminished "forward contracting" opportunities for grain and oilseed producers who are eager to take advantage of record high market prices. For some crops (particularly for wheat and rice), the price increases are likely to be relatively short-term in nature and are due to weather-related crop shortfalls in major producer and consumer countries, a weak U.S. dollar that has helped spark large increases in U.S. exports, a bidding war among major U.S. crops for land in the months leading up to spring planting in 2008, and the often perverse price effects resulting from international policy responses by several major exporting and importing nations to protect their domestic markets. Assuming a return to normal weather, these factors will likely self-correct within two growing seasons as global supplies are replenished and prices moderate. For coarse grains (corn, sorghum, barley, oats, and rye), oilseeds, and oilseed products (e.g., vegetable oil and meal), the price increases have also been due to strong, sustained demand deriving from two sources: robust income growth in developing countries (e.g., China and India), which has contributed to increased demand for meat products and the feed grains needed to produce that meat; and growing agricultural feedstock demand to meet large increases in government biofuel-usage mandates or goals in the United States, the European Union, and other countries. Market analysts, including the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), are predicting record global grain and oilseed production in 2008 in response to the high market prices. However, given the overall strength in demand growth, most market analysts predict that when commodity supplies eventually recover and prices moderate from current high levels, the new equilibrium prices will be significantly higher than has traditionally been observed during periods of market balance. This book examines the causes, consequences, and outlook for prices of the major U.S. program crops
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983: Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... pt. 7. Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Global Uncertainty and the Volatility of Agricultural Commodities Prices
Author: B.R. MunierPublisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1614990379
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The recent global financial crisis exposed the serious limitations of existing economic and financial models. Not only did macro models fail to predict the crisis, they seemed incapable of explaining what was happening to the economy. Policymakers felt abandoned by the conventional tools of the now obsolete Washington consensus and the World Trade Organization’s oversimplified faith in free markets.The traditional models for agricultural commodities have so far failed to take into account the uncertain character of the global agricultural economy and its ferocious consequences in food price volatility, the worst in 300 years, yielding hunger riots throughout the world. This book explores the elements which could help to close this fundamental modeling gap. To what extent should traditional models be questioned regarding agricultural commodities? Are prices on these markets foreseeable? Can their evolution be either predicted or convincingly simulated, and if so, by which methods and models? Presenting contributions from acknowledged experts from several countries and backgrounds – professors at major international universities or researchers within specialized international organizations – the book concentrates on four issues: the role of expectations and capacity of prediction; policy issues related to development strategies and food security; the role of hoarding and speculation and finally, global modeling methods. The book offers a renewed wisdom on some of the core issues in the world economy today and puts forward important innovations in analyzing these core issues, among which the modular modeling design, the Momagri model being a seminal example of it. Reading this book should inspire fruitful revisions in policy-making to improve the welfare of populations worldwide.
Futures Trading Act of 1982
Author: Trading in Commodity Futures
Author: United States. Commodity Exchange AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
Author: Matthias KalkuhlPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319282018
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.