Weekend Reading on Twitter

1. Weekend Reading: I am very excited to discuss my latest article published in AEPP with Dwight Sanders and Lei Yan, "The Order Flow Cost of Index Rolling in Commodity Futures Markets." Seems like a niche topic but ends up having some profound results. https://t.co/oFdTIPmQg8

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) July 8, 2022

1. Weekend Reading: I call this the one that got away. Its interesting to me because it is a paper that I had really high hopes for and thought was very cool, but we had a devil of a time getting published. https://t.co/jvhPsBaOZB

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) May 6, 2022

1. Weekend Reading: USDA went to "real-time" release of its crop reports in 2012. A momentous change in release policy and for the grain futures markets. Mike Adjemian and I took at look at the resulting market impacts in this 2018 AJAE paper. https://t.co/r5qiVEjTh1

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) April 22, 2022

1. Weekend Reading. With the March Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports behind us, its a good time to review a recent article on the accuracy of USDA reports in corn, soybeans, and wheat. Long title. https://t.co/cN4HuemIAk

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) April 8, 2022

1. Weekend Reading: The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. The Ru…Oh wait. I meant The Annual Index Rebalancing is coming. The Annual Index Rebalancing is coming. (Have to be a certain age to get the joke) pic.twitter.com/zerg8JPdBC

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) December 31, 2021

1. Weekend Reading (Special Holiday Edition): "When Does USDA Information Have the Most Impact on Crop and Livestock Markets?" Article published in the Journal of Commodity Markets in 2021. https://t.co/90f37sTa1L pic.twitter.com/Y0gw4jVjTQ

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) December 23, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: Continuing theme of the value of USDA reports. Fast forwarding to recent research rather than my older stuff. Up next is, "Are USDA reports still news to changing crop markets?" 2019 Food Policy paper. Several great co-authors. https://t.co/6dr5xv95Ad

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) December 10, 2021

1. Do new crop corn and soybean futures contain a systematic pre-harvest "weather" premium? Something that @JosephJanzen covered in our IFES webinar last week. Before I review Joe's results on this question, some background.

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) December 7, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: Continuing theme of market impact of USDA crop and livestock reports. Next up is a 2008 JAAE paper with co-authors on "The Impact of Situation and Outlook Information in Corn and Soybean Futures Markets: Evidence from WASDE Reports." https://t.co/1KDUzY2eU0

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) December 3, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: Continuing with my research on USDA reports. Up today is my 1994 JEBO article with Phil Garcia, Ray Leuthold, and Li Yang. So many interesting back stories on this article. https://t.co/MIVs5YIZ6m (pretty sure behind Elsevier pay wall) pic.twitter.com/p61Fsv1rE5

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) November 19, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: In my last weekend thread I highlighted a 1990 AJAE article on the reaction of the live hog futures market to the release of quarterly Hogs and Pigs Reports. An oldie but goodie. Going to roll the clock forward almost 30 years to an update of that work.

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) October 29, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: Decided to do a series that features my work over the years on USDA crop and livestock reports. If you look at my CV you might be shocked how many papers I have written on this topic. Why? The answer is in my new book, which is almost finished.

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) October 8, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: As they used to say on Monty Python, "…and now for something completely different. A couple of years ago I wrote a paper with this title, "Writing Papers in Economics Using Fake Latex." The article is real. Here is the link https://t.co/vkpms9oxct

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) October 1, 2021

1. Weekend Reading (Early Edition): With the August Crop Report from the USDA out tomorrow, thought there might be some interest on my most recent paper, "To batch or not to batch? The release of USDA crop reports." Published in Agricultural Economics https://t.co/VSAatsza4N

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) August 11, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: Have not done one of these for awhile. This one is on a brand spanking new article coming out in Energy Economics "Biodiesel hedging under binding renewable fuel standard mandates." https://t.co/a1KNV6DKw0

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) February 26, 2021

1. Weekend Reading: Just published in the AEPP (free access) with farmdoc colleagues "Coronavirus Impacts on Midwestern Row‐Crop Agriculture" https://t.co/wLgT6a8RPN

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) October 16, 2020

1. Weekend Reading. With the USDA Oct Crop Production report coming up next week, thought it would be a good time to revisit this 2013 article: "Do Big Crops Get Bigger and Small Crops Get Smaller? Further Evidence on Smoothing in U.S. Department of Agriculture Forecasts"

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) October 2, 2020

1. Weekend Reading (early): With the Sep USDA crop reports coming out tomorrow, thought it would be a good time to review some of my past research on changes to USDA production forecasts. First up. AJAE article from all the way back in 2006. https://t.co/ynGtAlWRGx

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) September 10, 2020

1. Weekend Reading: More on commodity investing. This is a 2018 article I wrote with co-authors on "Financialization and the returns to commodity investments." Published in the Journal of Commodity Markets https://t.co/mx4HInqrdO

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) June 19, 2020

1. Weekend Reading: New AJAE article "Supply Fundamentals and Grain Futures Price Movements." Co-authored with Berna Karali of Georgia and Olga Isengildina-Massa of VPI. Free access at this link https://t.co/KDITjQSJ4w

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) June 5, 2020

1. Weekend Reading: This week's offering is another new paper in AEPP entitled, "Who Wins and Who Loses? Trader Returns and
Risk Premiums in Agricultural Futures Markets." I think this link provides read-only access but I am not 100% on that. https://t.co/eGU1s84MF1

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) May 29, 2020

1. Weekend Reading: Today I am going to feature an article I published with Dwight Sanders back in 2012, "A Reappraisal of Investing in Commodity Futures Markets." Found here: https://t.co/GfQaUEtE2f Unfortunately it longer is Free Access. Behind the paywall.

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) May 22, 2020

1. Weekend Reading: Just published a paper with several colleagues "Returns to Investing in Commodity Futures: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff" in AEPP. Feature article in upcoming issue. Currently full access by Wiley! https://t.co/QDcMAekL2u

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) May 15, 2020

1. Weekend Reading: Just published an article in the AJAE with Kristin McCormack and Jim Stock at Harvard: "The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals." Issue includes a comment by Bruce Babcock and our rejoinder. Here is link to the issue https://t.co/odykXwpd8P

— Scott Irwin (@ScottIrwinUI) May 1, 2020