Marketing and Policy Briefing Papers cover contemporary issues in commodity marketing and agricultural policy. The primary audience is county extension faculty, agribusiness leaders, and state and federal policy makers. Papers are not formally reviewed.
Dairy Subtitle: Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
No. 94, June 2008, 17 pages
Fluid Milk Prices and Prices Spreads: A Second Look
No. 93, July 2007, 16 pages
Producer Preferences for Agricultural, Food and Public Policy: A Wisconsin Perspective
No. 92, October 2006, 29 pages
Price-Protecting Butterfat in High-Testing Herds: Using the CME Deliverable Butter Contract
No. 91, September 2006, 16 pages
Federal Order Product Price Formulas and Cheesemaker Margins: A Closer Look
No. 90, October 2005, 20 pages
Dairy Policy in the Next Farm Bill: An Early Assessment
No. 89, March 2005, 13 pages
Wisconsin Dairy Investment Credit
No. 88, November 2004, 12 pages
Effectiveness of 'Naïve' Class III Hedging Strategies
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Ed Jesse Jacob Schuelke
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No. 87, November 2004, 14 pages
How Have Federal Milk Marketing Order Product Price Formulas Affected Milk Prices?
No. 86, November 2004, 13 pages
Federal Milk Marketing Order Pooling, Depooling, and Distant Pooling: Issues and Impacts
No. 85, June 2004, 16 pages
Cost of Producing Milk: A Comparison by State
No. 84, November 2003, 9 pages
Fluid Milk Prices and Price Spreads
No. 83, October 2003, 12 pages
Enrollment in the 2003/2004 MILC Program: Does Timing Matter?
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Brian W. Gould John M. Hackney
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No. 82, September 2003, 11 pages
Flooring the Support Price for Milk
No. 81, March 2003, 11 pages
U.S. Imports of Concentrated Milk Proteins: What We Know and Don't Know
No. 80, February 2003, 19 pages
Federal Milk Marketing Order Reform: November 2002 Final Decision
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on Class III/IV Formulas
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No. 79, November 2002, 11 pages
Rethinking Dairyland: The Effects of Federal Dairy Programs on
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the Competitiveness of Dairying in Wisconsin
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No. 78, September 2002, 27 pages
Rethinking Dairyland: Wisconsin and U.S. Dairy Industry Trends
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Ed Jesse Brad Barham Bruce Jones
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No. 78, September 2002, 11 pages
Rethinking Dairyland: Background for Decisions About Wisconsin's Dairy Industry
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College of Agricultural Life Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
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No. 78, May 2002, 28 pages
Rethinking Dairyland: Farm Level Milk Prices -- Is Wisconsin Competitive?
No. 78, January 2003, 16 pages
Analysis of Key Non-Diary Provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
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T. Randall Fortenbery Bill Dobson
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No. 77, May 2002, 19 pages
Dairy Title: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
No. 76, May 2002, 12 pages
Would U.S. Dairy Firms Increase Long-Term Profits by Becoming Bigger Exporters and Bigger Investors in Foreign Dairy-Food Businesses?
No. 75, March 2002, 17 pages
Regional Trends in U.S. Milk Production: Analysis and Projections
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Ed Jesse Jacob Schuelke
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No. 74, December 2001, 24 pages
Federal Milk Marketing Order Reform (Continued)
No. 73, November 2001, 8 pages
The Butter-Powder Tilt
No. 72, June 2001, 9 pages
Changes in Testing and Paying for Milk Components as Proposed under the Final Rule of Federal Order Reform: Implications for Dairy Producers
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Bob Cropp Randy Shaver and Bill Wendorff
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No. 70, July 1999, 8 pages
Interregional Analysis of Interstate Dairy Compacts
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Tom Cox Bob Cropp and Will Hughes
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No. 69, July 1999, 10 pages
Federal Order Reform: The Final Rule
No. 68, April 1999, 16 pages
The Hog-Pork Industry Woes of 1998
No. 67, April 1999, 8 pages
The U.S. Farm Recession--Implications for Farm and Agricultural Trade Policies
No. 66, March 1999, 20 pages
What Will Happen After the USDA's Dairy Price Support Program Ends?
No. 65, December 1998, 13 pages
Dairy Producer Use of BFP PUT Options to Reduce Price Risk: Application to USDA's Dairy Options Pilot Program
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Bob Cropp Brian W. Gould
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No. 64, November 1998, 7 pages
Dairy Producer Use of BFP PUT Options to Reduce Price Risk: Application to USDA's Dairy Options Pilot Program
No. 64, November 1998, 7 pages
Why Most Small and Mid-Sized Agribusinesses and Cooperatives Don't Export -- Implications for the U.S. Dairy Industry
No. 63, June 1998, 11 pages
Interregional Analysis of Federal Milk Marketing Order Reform Proposals: Results from the UW-Madison Dairy Interregional Competition Model (IRCM95)
No. 62, April 1998, 19 pages
1998 Dairy Situation and Outlook
No. 61, March 1998, 5 pages
Summary of the USDA Proposed Rule for Federal Milk Marketing Order Reform
No. 60, February 1998, 10 pages
- The Outlook for the U.S. Economy -- Implications of the Asian Crisis and Related Developments for U.S. Agriculture
No. 59, January 1998, 11 pages
The Basic Formula Price: Has the Use of NASS Cheese Prices Changed Its Value?
No. 58, September 1997, 10 pages
When Will U.S. Firms Become Major Dairy Exporters?
No. 57, May 1997, 17 pages
The Basic Formula Price Futures Contract: A New Dairy Industry Risk Management Tool
No. 56, March 1997, 21 pages
Dairy Title: The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
No. 55, April 1996, 17 pages
Futures Contracts for Milk: How Will They Work?
No. 54, December 1995, 30 pages
USDA's Final Decision on Multiple Component Pricing for Midwest Federal Milk Marketing Orders
No. 53, August 1995, 13 pages
Regional Effects of Selected Dairy Policy Options: Dairy IRCM [International Competition Model] Simulation
No. 52, March 1995, 20 pages
Dairy Exporting Organizations for the Post GATT Agreement Era
No. 51, March 1995, 9 pages
Economic Impacts of the GATT Agreement on the U.S. Dairy Industry
No. 50, January 1995, 15 pages
USDA's Recommended Decision on Multiple Component Pricing for Midwestern Federal Milk Marketing Orders
No. 49, November 1994, 23 pages
USDA's Recommended Decision on Replacing the M-W Price
No. 48, September 1994, 15 pages
Federal Order Milk Pricing and the Economic Viability of the Upper Midwest Dairy Industry
No. 47, April 1994, 14 pages
Section 102: The California Make Allowance Issue
No. 46, April 1994, 19 pages
Proposals for Multiple Component Pricing in Midwest Federal Milk Marketing Orders
No. 45, February 1994, 16 pages
Class III-A: What, How, and Why?
No. 44, November 1993, 14 pages
Options Trading in Cheese Futures Contracts: How Will it Work?
No. 43, May 1993, 21 pages
Futures Trading in Cheese: How Will it Work?
No. 42, May 1993, 37 pages