Interesting reading for those who want to know more

Some useful reading on crop marketing and more.

• Blasingame, J. (2018) Mobile computing will dominate your future. The Small Business Advocate, Retrieved from https://m.smallbusinessadvocate.com/small-business-article/mobile-computing-will-dominate-your-future-3240
• Brown, A. N., Ortmann, G. F., & Darroch, M. A. G. (1999). Use of maize marketing alternatives and risk management tools by commercial maize farmers in South Africa. Agrekon: Agricultural Economic Research, Police and Practise in Southern Africa, 38(3), 275-301. doi: 10.1080/03031853.1999.9523555
• Chaudhary, A. K. (2013). Impact of Behavioural Finance In Investment Decisions and Strategies – A Fresh Approach, International Journal of Management Research and Business Strategy, Vol. 2, No. 2, 85-91. ISSN 2319-345X. Retrieved from www.ijmrbs.com
• Coleman, A. (2017, September 5). Learn marketing mechanisms to maximise grain profits. Farmer’s Weekly. Retrieved from https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/farm-basics/how-to-business/learn-marketing-mechanisms maximise-grain-profits/
• Crop, (2021) Merriam Webster. Retrieved from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop
• De Lange, R. (2019, November 18). Drought is killing SA’s farmers, City Press. Retrieved from https://city-press.news24.com/Business/drought-is-killing-sas-farmers-20191115
• Deloitte. (2018). Commodity Price Risk Management: A manual of hedging commodity price risk for corporates. Retrieved from https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/risk/in-risk-overview-of-commodity-noexp.PDF
• De Vos, A. S., Strydom, H., Fouché, C. B., & Delport, C. S. L. (2011). Research at grass roots: for the social sciences and human service professions (4th ed.) Pretoria, South Africa: Van Schaik.
• Geyser, J. M. (2013). Short And Long of Futures Markets: SAFEX. Grain Hedging. Speculation. Singapore, Craft Print.
• Ginyard, J. (2001). Position-sizing Effects on Trader Performance: An experimental analysis Uppsala University, Department of Psychology (Master’s thesis), Retrieved from https://www.turtletrader.com/position_sizing.pdf
• Hackman, J. R., & Vidmar, N. (1970). Effects of Size and Task Type on Group Performance and Member Reactions, American Sociological Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 37-54. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/2786271
• Herdaker, J. B., Lien, G., Anderson, J. R., & Huirne, R. B. M. (2015). Coping with Risk in Agriculture (3RD ed. Applied Decision Analysis). London, UK, CABI.
• Hedging. (n.d.) In Business dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/hedging.html
• Jordaan, H., & Grove, B. (2007). Factors Affecting Maize Producers Adoption of Forward Pricing in Risk Management: The Case of Vaalharts. Agrekon: Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa, Vol. 46, No. 4, 548-565.
• Kee, D., & Kenyon, D. E. (1999). Hog Profit Margin Hedging: A Long-Term Out-of-Sample Evaluation, Paper presented at NCCC-134 Conference on Applies Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management, Chicago, IL. Retrieved from http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/nccc134
• Kim, H. S., Brorsen, B. W., & Anderson, K. B. (2007). Profit Margin Hedging, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 92(3), 638-653. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aap038L
• Land Bank. (2018). 2018 Annual Report. Moloto, MA: Author.
• Laughlin, P. R., Hatch, E. C., Silver, S., & Boh, L. (2006). Groups Perform Better Than the Best Individuals on Letters-to-Numbers Problems: Effects of Group Size, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 644-651. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.644
• Mofokeng, M., & Vink, N., (2013). Factors Affecting the Hedging Decisions of Maize Farmers in Gauteng Province, 4th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, September 22-25, Hammamet, Tunisia.
• Nyman, R. (2015). Farmers preferred end-values related to their use of forward contract, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Economics (Master’s thesis No.  935), ISSN 1401-4084. Retrieved from http://stud.epsilon.slu.se
• Parker, G.G., Van Alstyne, M., W., & Choudary, S., P. (2016). Platform Revolution, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., United States of America, New York, ISBN 978-0-393-35435-5 pbk.
• Roberts, D., & Mc Fadden, S. (2010). Lean Hogs Hedge Model and Crush Margin Calculator, AgStar Scholar Research Project, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. Retrieved from https://www.apec.umn.edu/sites/apec.umn.edu/files/lean-hogs-hedge-model-and-crush-margin-calculator.pdf
• Rosenhead, M. J., Elton, M., & Gupta, S. K. (1972). Robustness and optimality as criteria for strategic decisions. Operational Research Quarterly, 23(4), 413–430. CrossRefGoogle Scholar
• Schafer, S. (2016). Cash In With a Well Written Commodity Marketing Plan, Agweb Farm Journal, 02:52PM Nov30, 2016, Retrieved from Agweb.com/article/cash-in-with-a-well-written-commodity-marketing-plan-NAA-sara-schafer.
• Speranda, I., & Trsinski, Z. (2015). Hedging as a Business Risk Protection Instrument, Econviews, BR.2/2015, 551-565. UDK:336.764.21
• Strydom, D., Venter, M. (2014). Understanding the Maize Maze, The Dairy Mail, September 2014, Vol. 21, 48-53. Retrieved from https://journals.co.za/content/ac_dm/21/9/EJC160218
•  Tsaih, R., Hsu, Y., & Lai, C. C. (1998). Forecasting S&P 500 stock index futures with a hybrid AI system, Decision support systems, No. 23, 161-174. Elsevier, PII: S0167-9236(98)00028-1
• Ueckermann, E. M., Blignaut, J.N., Gupta, R., & Raubenheimer, J. (2008). Modelling South African grain farmer’s preferences to adopt derivative contracts using discrete choice models, Agrekon: Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa, Vol. 47, No. 2, 222-239. doi10.1080/03031853.2008.9523798
• Usset, E. (2018). Five Common Mistakes in Grain Marketing. Farmers Conference, Feb. 28 2018. Retrieved from https://farmsmartconference.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/18fs20-ed-usset-five-common-mistakes-in-grain-marketing.pdf
• Venter, M., M., Strydom, D., B., & Grove, B. (2012). Stochastic Efficiency Analysis of Alternative Basic Grain Marketing Strategies. Submitted as a contributed paper at the A.A.A.E. and A.E.A.S.A. Conference, 01-03 October 2012, Bloemfontein.
• Woolverton, A., E., & Sykuta, M., E. (2009). Do Income Support Programs Impact Producer Hedging Decisions? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparative. Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 31, No. 4, 834-852. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40588531