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 …

The purpose of this research report is to summarize the features of several types of "new generation" grain marketing … contracts. Over the last several years, new types of grain marketing contracts have been developed by the grain industry in an … attempt to improve the results of the marketing process for farmers. These products use automated pricing rules, discretionary …

Marketing is viewed as an important component of the farm management process, and poor marketing is often cited as a …, and available evidence is too limited to make definitive conclusions about farmer marketing abilities. This paper examines … the actual marketing performance of corn and soybean producers in Illinois. Farmer marketing data is based on the USDA …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of agricultural market advisory services in marketing wheat … advisory service recommendations for wheat are available from the AgMAS Project for the 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 marketing … performance measures for overlapping and non-overlapping adjacent marketing years. In general, the predictability results provide …