The purpose of this paper is to analyze the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982â … marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas is about equal to the market if a 24- or 20-month market benchmark … harvest benchmark is used. The sensitivity of marketing performance to the market benchmark considered is explained by the …

-year crop marketing window. The average cash price meets all of the desired properties, except that it would not be easily … during the marketing window very closely approximates the average cash price. Therefore, it is determined that the average …