2011 Risk and Profit Conference Presentations

August 18-19, 2011 Manhattan, KS

Title	Author	Downloads
SESSION I: Hedging in 2011: What's Changed and What Remains the Same	Seamon	PDF
SESSION II A: Livestock Market Outlook	Tonsor	PDF
SESSION II B: Grain Market Outlook	O'Brien	PDF
SESSION III: A Conversation With A Kansas Producer	Ott	PDF

Title	Author	Downloads
1. Making Crop Insurance Volatility Work for You		PDF (Slides) PDF (Discussion)
2. Pre-Harvest Hedging Strategies for Volatile Times	Grunewald	PDF
3. 2011-2012 Grain Market Outlook and Basis Issues: A Deeper Look	O'Brien	PDF
4. Basics of Futures and Options: Part 1	Fox	PDF
5. Basics of Futures and Options: Part 2	Fox	PDF
6. Are We Rational When It Comes to Land Prices?	Schurle	PDF
7. Tax-free Section 1031 Land Exchanges	Miller	PDF
8. Machinery Costs Forecasting Custom Rates and More	Dhuyvetter	PDF
9. Agricultural Productivity at the National, State, and Farm Level	Lambert Yeager Langemeier	PDF (Slides) PDF (Paper)
10. What Do We Do with Direct Payments?	Dumler	PDF
11. Macroeconomics and the Business of Farming	Amanor-Boadu	PDF
12. Expectations for Inflation and Interest Rates	Featherstone	PDF
13. Drivers of Fed Cattle Basis and Implications for Feedlot Operators	McElligott Tonsor	PDF
14. International Benchmarking of Beef Production	Langemeier Deblitz	PDF (Paper)
15. The 2010 Centennial Census	Arata	PDF
16. Comparison of 1970s Farms With Now	Herbel
17. Biofuels Contracting for Cellulosic Feedstocks	Bergtold Fewell Williams	PDF
18. Cropping Decisions, Risk Management Practices, and Willingness to Supply Biomass	Peterson Graves	PDF (Survey)

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