Sequential Modeling of White Wheat Marketing Strategies Academic Article

abstract

• A discrete stochastic progamming model is developed to directly maximize expected utility resulting from alternative white wheat marketing strategies. Time-series and regression techniques are used to simulate post-harvest price events. Farm characteristics and risk attitudes of a small group of Pacific Northwest wheat producers define the constraints and the objective functions for the model. The sequential formulation of the model, in which price uncertainty is continuously resolved, results in more flexible sales patterns over the marketing year than a nonsequential formulation of the problem. Alternative utility functional forms have little influence on optimal marketing plans.

authors

• Mccarl, Bruce

published proceedings

• North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics

author list (cited authors)

• Lambert, D. K., & McCarl, B. A.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Lambert, David K||McCarl, Bruce A

publication date

• January 1989

publisher

• JSTOR  Publisher

published in

• North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/1349287

start page

• 105

end page

• 105

volume

• 11

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.2307%2F1349287