study seeks to analyze producer hedging behavior within the framework of the overall marketing behavior. Producer marketing … behavior is modeled as a simultaneous choice between cash sales, cooperative marketing and forward contracts, and hedging. A … (direct hedging vs. cooperative marketing and forward contracts). …

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 …

paper first measures the extent to which producers display an active or mechanical marketing style using individual farmer … sales. Next, tests of performance persistence are conducted to determine if there is any advantage to an active marketing … style. The results show that southern Oklahoma wheat producers tend to have a mechanical marketing style, while at other …

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 …