Since September 1985, the Saskatchewan Farm Input Price Survey has provided farmers and farm-related businesses with detailed price information on purchased farm inputs. From economic theory such information may be expected to result in a reduction of price dispersion. The results of this study...

The financial value of outlook and research information was tested in a simulated decision-making environment. Established farmers and farm-management students were asked to make farm-management decisions with and without selected outlook and research information. The decisions were made on a...