This study reports that Market Advisory Services (MAS) are used by about 82% of
commercial US crop producers, based on the results of a recent survey. Only 43% of MAS …

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 …

Abstract Analysis of a unique data set of 1,400 US crop producers using a mixture‐modeling
framework shows that the likelihood of Marketing Advisory Services (MAS) use is, among …

This report presents marketing profiles and loan deficiency payment/marketing loan gain
profiles for the advisory services followed by the AgMAS Project for the 2001 corn crop …

This report presents marketing profiles and loan deficiency payment/marketing loan gain
profiles for the advisory services followed by the AgMAS Project for the 2001 soybean crop …

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

The purpose of this research report is to evaluate the pricing performance of market advisory
services for the 1995-2003 corn and soybean crops. Market and farmer benchmarks are …

Professional market advisory services provide specific advice (advisory programs) to grain
producers on how to market their commodities, and assist them in their efforts to manage …

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 …