Table 1.  Market Advisory Programs Tracked by the AgMAS Project, Corn, 1995-2001 Crop Years
                 
Crop Year
Market Advisory Program 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Comments
Ag Alert for Ontario ü Included in 1996.  After further review, deemed not directly applicable to US producers and dropped.
Ag Financial Strategies ü Established service first tracked for the 2001 crop year.
Ag Profit by Hjort ü ü ü ü ü Went out of business at the end of August 2000. 
Ag Review ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
AgLine by Doane (cash only) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
AgLine by Doane (hedge) ü ü ü ü ü ü New program for corn in 1996.
AgResource ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Agri-Edge (cash only) ü ü ü Went out of business at the end of January 1998. 
Agri-Edge (hedge) ü ü ü Went out of business at the end of January 1998. 
Agri-Mark ü ü ü ü ü ü Stopped providing specific recommendations regarding cash sales. Dropped after 2000 crop year. 
AgriVisor (aggressive cash) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
AgriVisor (aggressive hedge) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
AgriVisor (basic cash) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
AgriVisor (basic hedge) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Allendale (futures & options) ü ü ü ü ü ü New program for corn only in 1996.
Allendale (futures only) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Brock (cash only) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Brock (hedge) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Cash Grain ü ü Went out of business at the end of September 2000. 
Co-Mark ü ü Established service first tracked for the 2000 crop year.
Freese-Notis ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Grain Field Marketing ü Established service first tracked for the 2001 crop year.
Grain Field Report ü Stopped providing specific recommendations regarding cash sales. Dropped after 1995 crop year. 
Grain Marketing Plus ü ü Established service first tracked for the 2000 crop year.
Harris Weather/Elliott Advisory ü ü Stopped providing specific recommendations regarding cash sales. Dropped after 1996 crop year. 
North American Ag ü Stopped providing specific recommendations regarding cash sales. Dropped after 1995 crop year. 
Northstar Commodity ü Established service first tracked for the 2001 crop year.
Pro Farmer (cash only) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Pro Farmer (hedge) ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Progressive Ag ü ü ü ü ü ü Established service first tracked for the 1996 crop year.
Prosperous Farmer ü Stopped providing specific recommendations regarding cash sales. Dropped after 1995 crop year. 
Risk Management Group (cash only) ü ü ü Established service first tracked for the 1999 crop year.
Risk Management Group (futures & options) ü ü ü Established service first tracked for the 1999 crop year.
Risk Management Group (options only) ü ü ü Established service first tracked for the 1999 crop year.
Stewart-Peterson Advisory Reports ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Stewart-Peterson Strictly Cash ü ü ü ü ü ü This Program was discontinued at the end of October 2000. 
Top Farmer Intelligence ü ü ü ü ü ü ü Included for all corn crop years to date.
Utterback Marketing Services ü ü ü ü ü Previous to 1997, did not make clear enough recommendations to be tracked. 
Zwicker Cycle Letter ü ü ü ü Merged with AgriVisor for the 1999 crop year and no longer included.
                 
         
Note: A crop year is a two-year marketing window from September of the year previous to harvest through August of the year after harvest. 0.33 0.03
-0.04 0.02
-0.04 0.00
0.08 0.02
0.25 0.02
-0.02 0.01
-0.04 0.00
-0.09 0.00
-0.07 0.01
-0.05 0.03
-0.10 0.01
-0.31 0.02
-0.20 0.02
-0.35 0.01
-0.28 0.02
-0.14 0.04
-0.43 0.03
-0.09 0.02
-0.07 0.02
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