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The Performance of Agricultural Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans by Scott H. Irwin, Joao Martines-Filho and Darrel L. Good1 Paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003 Copyright 2003 by Scott H. Irwin, Joao Martines-Filho and Darrel L. Good. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 1 Scott H. Irwin is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Joao Martines-Filho is Manager of the AgMAS andfarmdoc Projects in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Darrel L. Good is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The authors gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of Greg Price and Tom Jackson, former AgMAS Project Managers, and Silvina Cabrini, Mark Jirik, Wei Shi, Brian Stark and Rick Webber, current and former Graduate Research Assistants for the AgMAS Project in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Helpful comments were received from members of the AgMAS Project Review Panel and seminar participants at the 1999 NCR-134 Conference, 2000 FAMC Conference, Cornell University, Iowa State University, Purdue University, Southern Illinois University, University of California at Davis and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This material is based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Depa