The purpose of this paper is to analyze the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982â …€“2004. The results show that farmer benchmark prices for wheat in Illinois and Kansas fall in the middle third of the price … and Kansas wheat farmers routinely market the bulk of their wheat crop in the bottom portion of the price range. Tests of …

USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) price forecasts are published as an interval, but are … of this article is to evaluate the accuracy of WASDE corn and soybean price forecasts using methodology suitable for …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982 …-2004. The results show that farmer benchmark prices for wheat in Illinois and Kansas fall in the middle-third of the price range … Kansas wheat farmers routinely market the bulk of their wheat crop in the bottom portion of the price range. Tests of the …

volatility of hog and cattle prices, a TARCH-in-mean model was specified that closely followed the distribution of these price …

marketing recommendations. Results indicate that even when skeptical beliefs are incorporated into the model a few programs in … corn and several programs in soybeans appear to be better marketing alternative compared to a naïve strategy that mimics … the market benchmark. More specifically, a skeptical farmer can expect to increase the price received for corn by 1% and …

into two categories: mean price reaction and volatility reaction. Overall, the results suggest that USDA outlook …