Grain Marketing Tools: A Survey of Illinois Grain Elevators

As with most sectors of the agriculture economy, the U. S. country grain elevator industry has experienced considerable consolidation and concentration. By the same token, the country elevator's customer base (grain producers and landlords) has also changed rather dramatically as grain production takes place on larger and fewer farms. The profitability of operating a country elevator is directly related to the volume of grain the country elevator purchases over the course of a marketing year. Because the basic services offered by country elevators are very similar (purchasing, conditioning and storing grain), country elevators attempt to differentiate themselves from their competition by offering customers a variety of cash grain marketing tools. These tools range from the basic cash forward contracts to minimum price contracts to the so called 'new generation grain marketing contracts'. The primary focus of this paper is to determine the marketing contracts grain elevators offer to their customers and the extent to which these contracts are used by the elevator's customers. Additionally, the types grain contracts offered will be compared to the firm's storage capacity, business organization, size of customer base, geographic location and type of grain purchased.Crop Production/Industries, Marketing,

Predicting Solar Protons: A Statistical Approach

A small fraction of solar flares are accompanied by high energy (\u3e10 MeV) protons. These events can cause degradation or failure of satellite systems and can be harmful to humans in space or in high altitude flight. For risk management purposes, the Air Force is interested in predicting these events. Several algorithms exist to do this operationally, but none predict when these events will occur with much accuracy. Here, we analyzed 3610 M1 and greater flares including 106 with proton events from the GOES sensors from 1 Jan 1986 to 31 Dec 2004 to produce new results, including a full scale comparison and optimization for all the algorithms. In every case, optimization leads to increased prediction ability. This research also produced a new algorithm based on the Garcia algorithm, which functions better than any other operational algorithm. This model, Garcia 2008, predicts with a skill score of .526, an improvement from .342. This new model is the best at prediction of all models measured

Defense Navigation Satellite Development Program

The Defense Navigation Satellite Development Program provides for test and evaluation of a new precise positioning technique and user receiver equipment. This equipment with appropriate displays will provide in real time three dimensional precise position and velocity information. The DNSDP permits test and demonstration of alternative engineering solutions to determine the configuration and characteristics of an operational Defense Navigation Satellite System for the 1980s time period. A general description of the test system is presented as well as a brief summary of its experimental applications, namely: navigation, military air traffic control (ATC), and military command and control communications

Factors Influencing Restaurant Managers’ Willingness to Feature Locally Produced Meat

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The screwworm eradication data system archives

The archives accumulated during 1 year of operation of the Satellite Temperature-Monitoring System during development of the Screwworm Eradication Data System are reported. Brief descriptions of all the kinds of tapes, as well as their potential uses, are presented. Reference is made to other documents that explain the generation of these data

Further contributions to the solution of the piltdown problem. By J. S. Weiner; W. E. Le Gros Clark; K. P. Oakley; G. F. Claringbull and M. H. Hey; F. H. Edmunds; S. H. U. Bowie and C. F. Davidson; C. F. M. Fryd; A. D. Baynes-Cope; A. E. A. Werner and R. J. Plesters. (Bulletin of the British Museum [Natural History], Geology, Volume 2, Number 6.) 63 pp., 7 figs., 5 plates. London. 1955

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1862-06-14 A.C. Spaulding submits bills to Governor Washburn

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1862-06-01 A.C. Spaulding reports to General Hodsdon about casualties

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