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Empirical Confidence Intervals for WASDE Forecasts of Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Prices
Isengildina-Massa, Olga; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
wheat prices over the 1980/81 through 2006/07 marketing years. Empirical methods use historical forecast errors to estimate …
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Poor Convergence Performance of CBOT Corn, Soybean and Wheat Futures Contracts: Causes and Solutions
Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip; Good, Darrel L.; … - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
The lack of consistently acceptable convergence performance for Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn, soybean, and wheat contracts since late 2005 has been widely discussed (e.g., Henriques, 2008).1 Convergence performance is summarized in Figure 1, depicting delivery location basis levels on the...
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Evaluation of Selected USDA WAOB and NASS Forecasts and Estimates in Corn and Soybeans
Irwin, Scott H.; Sanders, Dwight R.; Good, Darrel L. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2014
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a number of agencies that are involved in collecting, analyzing, forecasting, and disseminating information about the production and consumption of the corn and soybean crops (Spilka, 1983; Vogel and Bange, 1999; Lusk, 2013). Market participants...
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The Development of Samoa: An Analysis of Trends, Issues and Policies
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2000
Samoa is one of the five least developed Pacific island nations according to the classification of the United Nations. This article reviews the situation of Samoa in relation to its development generally but paying particular attention to: public and private finance; social issues such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835498
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2009 Corn Yield Prospects Continue to Improve
Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.; Tannura, Mike - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920240
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The Competitiveness of Small Household Pig Producers in Vietnam: Significant Research and Policy Findings from an ACIAR-sponsored Study and their Limitations
Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2010
The preamble to this paper highlights some of the major policy issues facing Vietnam as far as its supply of pork is concerned, in particular, the problem of its demand for pork rising at a faster rate than its supply. Some relevant background to this research project is provided by outlining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764849
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Forming Expectations About 2008 U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields — Application of Crop Weather Models that Incorporate Planting Progress
Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.; Tannura, Mike - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070440
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The New Era of Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Prices
Good, Darrel L.; Irwin, Scott H. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920239
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Breeding and feeding pigs in Australia and Vietnam
Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 2001
This report establishes that ACIAR Research Project AS2/1994/023, ‘Breeding and feeding pigs in Australia and Vietnam’ (supported by ACIAR from July 1995 to the end of 2000) has yielded an extraordinarily high rate of economic return on the funds invested. The collaborating agencies were the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326003
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The Pricing Performance of Market Advisory Services in Cattle Over 1995-2004
Brandenberger, Tracy L.; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L. - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2012
combined with the live cattle marketing recommendations to approximate the margin that a typical feedlot would face from the … third quarter of 1999 through 2004. Other marketing assumptions were also applied to approximate a real world feedlot in … purchased at rates that will yield on average 1 cwt. of live cattle per quarter, or 4 cwt. total per year, 2) the marketing …
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