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Two Essays On Whole Farm Modeling And Crop Marketing In Western Kentucky, Benjamin A. Martin
Two Essays On Whole Farm Modeling And Crop Marketing In Western Kentucky, Benjamin A. Martin
Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics
This thesis is composed of two essays that investigate whole farm planning and crop marketing in western Kentucky. In the first essay, contracting decisions between food corn producers and a mill are analyzed to observe factors affecting the bushel amount farmers contract. Unbalanced panel data containing seven years’ worth of pricing and contract information are used with a fixed-effects model to generate parameter estimates and quantify their effect on bushels contracted. It was found that contract attributes, market condition, and relationship-specific assets had a significant effect on producers’ food corn contracting decisions. The second essay utilizes mixed-integer programming to optimize …