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Pork Industry Materials

Outcome of Fall 2002 Livestock Revenue Insurance January 2003

Estimated Returns to Hog Risk Management Tools: Futures, Options, and Insurance June 2002

Life Cycle of a Hog Cycle  Updated January 2001

Livestock Revenue Insurance Dr. Bruce Babcock, January 2001

How Would Hog Insurance Have Worked in Recent Years January 2001

Managing Hog Price Risk June 2000 An analysis of futures, options, and packer contracts to manage hog price risk.

Understanding Hog Marketing Contracts September 1999

Iowa's Pork Industry- Dollars and Scents  Eleven articles about Iowa's pork industry written by members of the Iowa State University economics department, January 1998

Iowa's Pork Industry: Dollars and Scents - State of Iowa's Hog Industry ICN Presentation, January 1998

Production and Marketing Characteristics of U.S. Pork Producers, 1997-98 Staff Paper 311, Department of Economics, December 1998

1997 Survey of Former Iowa Hog Producers: Motivations of Exiting and Incentives to Return. Staff Paper #295, Department of Economic, November 1997

 

 

 

Beef Industry Materials

Live Cattle Futures and Options: How Have They Done? A paper examining futures and options strategies during the 1990s

Understanding and Managing Costs in Beef Cow-Calf Herds – presented to Integrated Resource Management Committee at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Convention, February 1999, in Charlotte, North Carolina

NAFTA and US Beef Industry – A paper presented at a conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, June 1999