Forward contracting historically has been the principal risk management tool of crop farmers
in the United States. We use pre‐harvest forward contract bids from 1977 to 2013 in Illinois …

This article develops measures of marketing style for advisory programs in corn and
soybeans and estimates the relationship between style characteristics and pricing …

A Bayesian hierarchical approach is employed to estimate individual expected performance
of agricultural market advisory services. Skeptical beliefs based on market efficiency are …

The storage-at-a-loss paradox—stocks despite inadequate price growth to cover storage
costs—is an unresolved issue of long-standing interest to economists. Alternative …

To reconcile the discrepancy between the efficient market hypothesis and grain marketing
recommendations by advisory services and extension programs, simulated prices from an …

Since decisions to sell grain are irreversible, waiting to sell grain can have a real option
value. This real option value may explain why producers appear to store too long. A new …

In today's farmdoc daily article, we review the last 17 years of Illinois corn, soybean, and
wheat prices to evaluate “new era” projections that farmdoc first made in September 2008 …

This report presents marketing profiles and loan deficiency payment/marketing loan gain
profiles for the advisory services followed by the AgMAS Project for the 2002, 2003 and …

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This report presents marketing profiles and loan deficiency payment/marketing loan gain
profiles for the advisory services followed by the AgMAS Project for the 2002, 2003 and …