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The Role And Implications Of Negotiation In Fed Cattle Transactions, Taralee Hudson
The Role And Implications Of Negotiation In Fed Cattle Transactions, Taralee Hudson
Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Within the past three decades, a significant evolution has occurred in how fed cattle are bought and sold. Driven by changes in the quality of beef and consumer health preferences, the beef industry began to advocate for “value-based marketing,” resulting in the development of grid pricing and eventually formula transactions. Alternative marketing arrangements (AMAs) have become the predominant method used for the sale of fed cattle, ultimately resulting in fewer transactions in the negotiated cash market. Such market conditions have recently reignited concerns among industry stakeholders about potentially uncompetitive outcomes for beef producers, particularly after the occurrence of sequential Black …
Regenerative Farming Practices: How Much Carbon Do They Sequester?, Andrew M. Havens
Regenerative Farming Practices: How Much Carbon Do They Sequester?, Andrew M. Havens
Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Along with the recent rise of voluntary carbon markets comes potential carbon credit producers seeking reliable information on how much carbon they can expect to sequester. In this thesis a distribution of expected sequestration outcomes is constructed using cost-benefit analysis and data gathered from agronomic experiments and land-grant university crop budgets for cover crops and no-till practices. The inverse cumulative distribution of carbon sequestration outcomes from adopting a regenerative agricultural practice is visualized and the net social benefit of paying farmers to produce carbon credits is estimated. Results show that on average there is between $29.02 and $37.20 of social …