DO PROFITABLE GRAIN MARKETING STRATEGIES EXIST FOR KANSAS CROPS?

The issue of whether profitable preharvest and postharvest marketing strategies exist relative to harvest sales for Kansas crops for the 1985-1998 marketing years is addressed. Practical application of market efficiency concepts is discussed. Nonharvest wheat marketing strategies offered less opportunity relative to harvest sales than for feedgrains and especially soybeans.Grain marketing, efficient markets, futures, options, marketing strategies, Crop Production/Industries, Marketing,

The Effects of the Micro-Market Structure for Kansas Grain Elevators on Spatial Grain Price Differentials

Corn and wheat cash prices in Kansas are affected by a number of local supply-demand, market structure, transportation access and other factors. Kansas corn prices in 2008 were affected by form of business organization, local feedgrain production and livestock feed usage, elevator storage capacity, access to railroad grain handling facilities, and to a limited degree by the number of competitors in local markets. Geographic proximity to grain ethanol plants did not have a positive impact on local corn prices, although a number of mitigating factors may exist. Kansas wheat prices in 2008 were affected by local wheat production, elevator storage capacity, the number of competitors in local markets, and by location relative to flour mills. Evidence of operating cost and efficiency differences among grain elevators indicate the presence of market power in local Kansas grain markets.grain markets, market structure, grain ethanol, wheat flour, monopsonistic competition, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance, Consumer/Household Economics, Crop Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis, Farm Management, Financial Economics, Marketing, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Risk and Uncertainty,

An empirical investigation of the role of camaraderie, cause, competency, and participation motives in the development of attachment to a charity sport event

This paper examines the factors that contribute to the meaning participants hold for charity sport events. Specifically, the paper investigates the role of three value-laden constructs; along with participation motives, to understand participant attachment to a charity sport event. An online questionnaire was given to participants in the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) LIVESTRONG Challenge (n=568) following the event. Data analysis revealed two recreational event motives, three motives for charitable giving, and three value-laden constructs contribute to attachment to the charity sport event. In addition, the results revealed the value-laden constructs make a stronger contribution to event attachment than the participation motives. Suggestions are made for increasing the meaning held for the event through community building, calls to action, and customization.Griffith Business School, Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel ManagementFull Tex

L-carnitine attenuates cardiac impairment but not vascular dysfunction in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats

L-Carnitine is an important co-factor in fatty acid metabolism by mitochondria. This study has determined whether oral administration of L-carnitine prevents remodelling and the development of impaired cardiovascular function in deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats (n = 6–12; #p < 0.05 versus DOCA-salt). Uninephrectomized rats administered DOCA (25 mg every 4th day s.c.) and 1% NaCl in drinking water for 28 days developed cardiovascular remodelling shown as systolic hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy, increased thoracic aortic and left ventricular wall thickness, increased left ventricular inflammatory cell infiltration together with increased interstitial collagen and increased passive diastolic stiffness and vascular dysfunction with increased plasma malondialdehyde concentrations. Treatment with L-carnitine (1.2% in food; 0.9 mg⁄g⁄day in DOCA-salt rats) decreased blood pressure (DOCA-salt 169 € 2; + L-carnitine 148 € 6# mmHg), decreased left ventricular wet weights (DOCA-salt 3.02 € 0.07; + L-carnitine 2.72 € 0.06# mg⁄ g body-wt), decreased inflammatory cells in the replacement fibrotic areas, reduced left ventricular interstitial collagen content (DOCA-salt 14.4 € 0.2; + L-carnitine 8.7 € 0.5# % area), reduced diastolic stiffness constant (DOCA-salt 26.9 € 0.5; + L-carnitine 23.8 € 0.5# dimensionless) and decreased plasma malondialdehyde concentrations (DOCA-salt 26.9 € 0.8; + L-carnitine 21.2 € 0.4# lmol ⁄ l) without preventing endothelial dysfunction. L-carnitine attenuated the cardiac remodelling and improved cardiac function in DOCA-salt hypertension but produced minimal changes in aortic wall thickness and vascular function. This study suggests that the mitochondrial respiratory chain is a significant source of reactive oxygen species in the heart but less so in the vasculature in DOCA-salt rats, underlying the relatively selective cardiac responses to L-carnitine treatment

A Penny Saved Is Mobility Earned

Analyzes data on how one's or one's parents' level of savings affects economic mobility, by income; examines savings incentives and disincentives in the federal tax code and public assistance programs; and recommends policy options to encourage savings

Endogenous Price Leadership: A Bargaining Model of International Telecommunications Settlements

This article develops a noncooperative bargaining model to address the effects of the uniform settlements policy (USP) in international telecommunications. The model predicts that the USP is more likely to increase (decrease) access charges in markets where, under the USP, U.S. firms carry more (less) outbound than inbound traffic. This is due to the model's more general prediction that forbidding price discrimination may allow an upstream monopolist to credibly commit to a take-it or leave-it intermediate product price. Two brief case studies from the international telegraph market lend support to this prediction.Center for Research on Economic and Social Theory, Department of Economics, University of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100894/1/ECON345.pd

Cost of production and equitable leasing arrangements for center pivot irrigated corn in central Nebraska

Presented at the 2007 Central Plains irrigation conference on February 27-28 in Kearney, Nebraska