The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pricing performance of agricultural market advisory services in hogs. Pricing recommendations are available for all quarters from the beginning of 1995 through the end of 2001. The results show that average differences between advisory programs and market benchmarks are small in nominal terms for all three benchmarks, -$0.41/cwt., $0.00/cwt. and -...

the major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the west azerbaijan province of iran. the population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. by using a cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. the results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...

Jerry Fox Karl J. Mayer This study examined the effectiveness of sports advisory services in football betting. Using three different cases with recent data, it compared the actual outcomes of the football games to sports advisory services' predictions in order to test their prediction accuracy for those games. The results showed none of the three data sets exceeded the threshold for profitable ...

Extension and advisory services are integral to the AIS, where now more than ever they play a brokering role, linking key actors such as producer organizations, research services, and higher education. This module looks at the history and current status of extension and advisory services and examines important topics such as pluralism, new roles for extension, new kinds of service providers, IC...

This paper presents an approach to derive product specifications for investment advisory services. The aim is to make investment advisory services independent products, providing a service model that can be priced. The study resulted in an object-oriented framework for a catalogue of service specifications, called service modules. The approach combines the investment process with general elemen...

Travel agency call centers are intended to complement advisory services of the bricks-and-mortar travel agencies by providing remote advisory services. Currently, they are ill-prepared for giving such advisory services due to their limitations in several areas of their work practice. This article presents the organizational as well as information and communication-related issues in work practic...