This sub-section groups the mailing lists which offer reception of monthly USDA reports to open discussions of the market.
The Farm Business Management Information Network or FBMInet, hosted by Farmcenter.com, offers several agricultural discussion areas on various topics, which are available via email through the FBMInet Email Listserver. Subscribe to receive directly to your email: futures and options reports, special crops and grain company bids, livestock markets reports, market commentary & outlooks, ag. news bulletins, crop reports, weather related crop reports, text weather forecasts, weather forecast maps, across the U.S. and Canada. A superb resource. Be sure to visit the rest of their web site. Click on http://fbminet.ca/english/index.htm
An electronic mailing list for monthly USDA reports (ERS, NASS and WOAB) is available through the USDA Economics and Statistics System. As a member of the list, you have access to the agricultural and economic estimates that are available in the reports section of this system. Through this service, you will receive the reports of your choice within three hours of their publication via email. Instructions on how to subscribe to this service free of charge and the choices of reports can be found at: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/mor_start.html
Services offered by the Almanac Mail Servers are USDA market news, articles about the use of computers in agricultural science, Extension Computing Technology Newsletters and more. All instructions can be found at: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/internet/almanac.html
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CIRVAL-L has a discussion on sheep and goat dairy sector : husbandry animal breeding, extensive or intensive farming, dairy industry, economical analysis, cheesemaking, designation of origin (DOP), legislation, dairy product, trading and so on. If you wish to subscribe, click here.
STAT publishing has set up a certain number of agricultural commodity mailing lists containing market information. Groups may include cash crops, futures, grain, etc. Instructions on how to join can be found at: http://www.statpub.com/stat/mailist.html
MarketForum is a place for interactive discussions on the markets. Participants discuss subjects such as stocks, options, futures, forex and commodities. To join, you must fill out the form (registration is free), at: http://forum.ino.com/
The pages set up by Clark Consulting International give a list of agricultural listservers or discussion groups as well as on a second page, a list of electronic magazines. The URL is: http://www.agpr.com/