A LINKED ANNUAL AND MONTHLY MODEL FOR FORECASTING ALFALFA HAY PRICES

Martin Blake, Tom Clevenger

AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 1984 · 21 citations · 1 references

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This article develops a model to forecast monthly alfalfa hay prices before the first harvest. This is done by linking an annual model, which forecasts the initial May price, with a system of monthly equations that track the monthly seasonal price pattern, given the forecasted May price.

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