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 …

-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 …

the different advisory programs. These assumptions are intended to accurately depict "real-world" marketing conditions …. Several key assumptions are: i) with a few exceptions, the marketing window for a crop year runs from September before harvest … on-farm or commercial sites, and iv) marketing loan recommendations made by advisory programs are followed wherever …