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Price Relationships in Processors' Input Market Areas: Testing Theories for Corn Prices Near Ethanol Plants

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  • Paul Gallagher
  • Robert Wisner
  • Heather Brubacker

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This study examines corn pricing in the vicinity of processing plants. We develop and test several price‐distance models for cargo, insurance and freight (CIF) plant pricing in the presence of varying degrees of exporter competition, and for discriminatory free‐on‐board (FOB) pricing at the farm. The price‐distance functions describing spatial prices near processing plants all depend on local transport costs. But the pricing system (CIF or FOB) and the extent of local competition define the level and spatial rate of change in prices.Estimations of an empirical price‐location function for Iowa during the spring of 2003 suggest that prices near the plants of four conventional businesses conform to the CIF pricing model. But prices near producer‐owned firms or farmer cooperatives failed to show any statistically significant effect on nearby prices. One plant had a price‐distance function that resembled FOB pricing. Cet article étudie la tarification du maïs aux environs des usines agro‐alimentaire utilisant cette céréale. Nous développons et testons plusieurs modèles de tarification CIF en présence de different niveaux de pressions compétitive à l'exportation. Nous testons aussi l'existence d'une tarification discriminatoire FOB au niveau de l'exploitation agricole. Les fonctions distance‐prix décrivant les distributions spatiales des prix aux environs des usines agro‐alimentaire dépendent toutes des coûts de transport local. Cependant le système de tarification (CIF ou FOB) et l'intensité de la compétition locale définissent le niveau et la sensibilité des prix en fonction de la distance.Les estimations des fonctions empiriques prix‐situation geographique dans l'Iowa durant le printemps 2003 suggèrent que les prix aux alentours de quatre producteurs agro‐alimentaire sont conformes à un modèle de tarification CIF. En revanche, les prix pratiques près des cooperatives ou des usines possedées par les exploitants agricole ne semblent pas affectés par des tarifications particulières. Un plan possède cependant une fonction prix‐distance dont la forme à une tarification FOB.

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  • Paul Gallagher & Robert Wisner & Heather Brubacker, 2005. "Price Relationships in Processors' Input Market Areas: Testing Theories for Corn Prices Near Ethanol Plants," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 53(2‐3), pages 117-139, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:canjag:v:53:y:2005:i:2-3:p:117-139
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7976.2005.00414.x
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    1. Edwards, William M., 2003. "2004 Iowa Farm Custom Rate Survey," Staff General Research Papers Archive 10217, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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