CORN PRICES, THE FUEL SHORTAGE AND OPTIMAL CORN HARVESTING STRATEGIES

Crop Production/Industries,

MEASURING IMPACTS ON DEMAND OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY PROMOTION

Demand and Price Analysis,

A RISK PROGRAMMING ANALYSIS OF CATTLE PROCUREMENT BY BEEF PACKERS

Livestock Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty,

Economic Projections And Forecasting: Concepts And Techniques

Throughout the world, as plans in government agencies or private businesses are made, forecasts of what will occur in future years must invariably be used. In the development of agricultural policy by the Ministry of Agriculture, the expected future levels of production of major commodities must be projected before appropriate export policies can be developed. In, the- setting of monetary policy and the specification of the credit conditions, and Interest rates that will be faced by agricultural producers and other business firms, projections of the amount of credit needed in various sectors and the amount available at different interest rates must be developed

Conditions and Trends in Hog-Pork Production and Marketing: Marketing Systems and Farm Prices

During this century three major trends have characterized the development of the hog slaughter-processing industry in Iowa and in other parts of the nation: Slaughter plants have moved from terminal market locations to hog production areas, new firms have entered the slaughter-processing industry reducing the relative importance of the once dominant big five meat packing firms, and muitispecies slaughtering plants have been replaced by plants specializing in the slaughter of a single species of livestock..

Marketing Practices of a Sample of Iowa Hog Producers

The papers in this report summarize some of the results of a survey of 489 Iowa hog producers. The survey was conducted in 1972; it included producers in all areas of Iowa. The Departn^nt of Economics and the Statistical Laboratory of the Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station at Iowa State University coopera ted in conducting the survey. The survey was financed by Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station project 1822. This report deals with hog marketing decisions and practices; another report deals with hog production facilities and practices. The authors of the following papers are grateful to the Statistical Laboratory, to the interviewers who collected the data and to the farmers who provided the data