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DOES THE MARKET ANTICIPATE SMOOTHING IN USDA CROP PRODUCTION FORECASTS?
Isengildina, Olga; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004
soybean production forecasts during 1970/71 through 2003/04 marketing years. The analysis revealed that markets consistently …
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THE COST OF FORWARD CONTRACTING
Shi, Wei; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.; Hagedorn, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004
The cost of forward contracting corn is estimated with weekly pre-harvest forward bases for seven regions of Illinois from 1975 to 2002. Given the panel structure of the forward basis dataset, we extend Townsend and Brorsen's univariate unit root model for forward bases to a panel unit root...
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FORECAST ENCOMPASSING AND FUTURES MARKET EFFICIENCY: THE CASE OF MILK FUTURES
Manfredo, Mark R.; Sanders, Dwight R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004
The traditional necessary condition for futures market inefficiency is the existence of alternative forecasting methods that produce mean squared forecast errors smaller than the futures market. Here, a more exacting requirement for futures market efficiency is proposedforecast encompassing....
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THE IMPACT OF MARKETING ADVISORY SERVICE RECOMMENDATIONS ON PRODUCERS' MARKETING DECISIONS
Pennings, Joost M.E.; Isengildina, Olga; Irwin, Scott H.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004
producers' marketing philosophy are hypothesized to influence the impact of MAS on producers' marketing decisions. Data from 656 … U.S. producers were used and the impact of MAS on producers' marketing decisions was tested using an ordered probit … recommendations are delivered, and the match between MAS and producer's marketing philosophy are important factors explaining the …
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