Table 4. Descriptive Statistics on the Number of Recommended Transactions for Individual Market Advisory Programs, Corn and Soybeans, 1995-2004 Crop Years
	Crop	Number of Corn Transactions				Number of Soybean Transactions
Market Advisory Program	Years	Average	Minimum	Maximum		Average	Minimum	Maximum
Ag Alert for Ontario	1995	24	24	24		13	13	13			24	13
Ag Financial Strategies	2001-2004	54	22	90		49	17	98			54	49
Ag Market Professional (cash only)	2004	15	15	15		12	12	12			15	12
Ag Market Professional (hedge)	2004	119	119	119		111	111	111			119	111
Ag Profit by Hjort	1995-1999	7	4	11		11	6	26			7	11
Ag Review	1995-2004	16	9	26		20	12	36			16	20
AgLine by Doane (cash only)	1995-2004	10	6	14		10	7	19			10	10
AgLine by Doane (hedge)	1996-2004	13	7	19		17	11	29			13	17
AgResource	1995-2004	34	12	65		31	6	62			34	31
Agri-Edge (cash only)	1995-2004	7	3	10		7	3	10			7	7
Agri-Edge (hedge)	1995-1997	17	13	20		16	10	25			17	16
Agri-Mark	1995-1997	16	7	28		19	6	37			16	19
AgriVisor (aggressive cash)	1995-2004	10	5	18		11	4	22			10	11
AgriVisor (aggressive hedge)	1995-2004	15	5	34		14	4	27			15	14
AgriVisor (basic cash)	1995-2004	9	5	18		8	4	22			9	8
AgriVisor (basic hedge)	1995-2004	13	5	25		13	4	26			13	13
Allendale (futures & options)	1996-2004	19	8	29		N/A	N/A	N/A			18	14
Allendale (futures only)	1995-2004	18	8	31		14	5	31			8	7
Brock (cash only)	1995-2004	8	5	9		7	4	11			29	24
Brock (hedge)	1995-2004	29	8	46		24	10	43			6	5
Cash Grain	1999-2000	6	2	10		5	1	9			17	8
Co-Mark	2000-2003	17	5	28		8	1	12			13	16
Freese-Notis	1995-2004	13	6	21		16	7	26			30	32
Grain Field Marketing	2001-2004	30	18	60		32	9	66			35	28
Grain Field Report	1995	35	35	35		28	28	28			16	6
Grain Marketing Plus	2000-2002	16	6	29		6	4	10			10	10
Harris Weather/Elliott Advisory	1995-1996	10	6	14		10	3	16			9	9
North American Ag	1995	9	9	9		9	9	9			17	15
Northstar Commodity	2001-2004	17	13	22		15	7	19			10	13
Pro Farmer (cash only)	1995-2004	10	5	14		13	7	23			20	22
Pro Farmer (hedge)	1995-2004	20	11	32		22	7	41			19	22
Progressive Ag	1996-2004	19	7	46		22	9	36			31	12
Prosperous Farmer	1995	31	31	31		12	12	12			12	9
Risk Management Group (cash only)	1999-2004	12	7	15		9	2	16			26	23
Risk Management Group (futures & options)	1999-2004	26	12	33		23	12	34			31	19
Risk Management Group (options only)	1999-2004	31	12	43		19	12	30			38	40
Stewart-Peterson Advisory Reports	1995-2004	38	19	57		40	10	65			16	16
Stewart-Peterson Strictly Cash	1995-2000	16	5	20		16	3	20			37	37
Top Farmer Intelligence	1995-2004	37	19	52		37	24	56			59	47
Utterback Marketing Services	1997-2004	59	32	94		47	27	91			22	17
Zwicker Cycle Letter	1995-1998	22	12	30		17	6	24
All Programs	1995-2004	20	2	119		19	1	111				Column 1	Column 2
											Column 1	1
Notes: A crop year is a two-year marketing window from September of the year previous to harvest through August of the year after harvest. The transaction count for an advisory program includes all cash, forward, futures, options and marketing loan recommendations for a given crop year.  Entry and exit transactions for futures and options positions are counted separately since positions may be entered and exited in an incremental manner.  N/A denotes "Not Applicable," since the indicated program did not exist or was not evaluated for the given crop year.											Column 2	0.965187316	1