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Liquidity, hedging and the survival of North German dairy farms

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  • Stephan Hoehl
  • Sebastian Hess

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Increasingly, European dairy farmers have to manage the raw milk price risk. Price hedging for raw milk and an increasing number of individual fixed-price contracts with processors are now available. However, the choice of hedging a certain share of milk output still leaves individual farmers facing a complex decision. The cash flow model in this study explains the probability of a typical northern European dairy farm surviving illiquidity over an 18-month period under common milk price volatility. The probability of farm survival was modelled in relation to available liquidity buffers and different levels of farm-specific production costs. The model allowed minimum shares of milk output to be determined, for which a fixed price should be hedged if the objective is farm survival at a given probability. Using these modelling results, practitioners are able to determine this share graphically.

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  • Stephan Hoehl & Sebastian Hess, 2022. "Liquidity, hedging and the survival of North German dairy farms," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 49(1), pages 208-236.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:49:y:2022:i:1:p:208-236.
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