Greeting from the Expert

Welcome to the Agricultural Price Forcasting Program. We hope to provide timely answers to your current questions. If we don't know, we'll try to direct you to an answer. My area is grain marketing at the farm level and price analysis and outlook for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Please make your questions as detailed and clear as possible. I look forward to visiting with you.

Darrel L. Good, Ph. D.

Professor and Cooperative Extension Economist
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-4716
Email: d-good@uiuc.edu

Employment

Darrel L. Good is a professor and Cooperative Extension Service Economist with the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has major extension and aces responsibilities in the area of agricultural price forecasting.

Education

A native of Illinois, Good received his bachelor's and master's degree from Southern Illinios University and his doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. Prior to joining the staff in 1976, he was an assistant professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University.

Research

Good has co-authored a textbook, Price Forecasting and Sales Management, and is a major author of the Weekly Outlook and Grain Price Outlook newsletters. He has written numerous articles and bulletins on the subjects of price forecasting, price outlook, and the development of marketing strategies.

Related Web Sites

Illinois Grain Risk Outreach - a family of services designed to provide comprehensive risk management information and analysis for producers in Illinois.

AgMas - a project to investigate the performance of Agricultural Market Advisory Services.