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ML forecasting advice sought for agriculture crop volumes and pricing

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A user on Reddit's r/MachineLearning subreddit is seeking advice on applying machine learning to forecast agricultural crop volumes and pricing. They are currently using SARIMA, XGBoost, and Holt-Winters models with USDA and industry data, but are looking for recommendations on production-grade libraries, effective models for agricultural forecasting, approaches for commodity pricing, and feature engineering ideas. The data is characterized by weekly seasonality, weather impacts, and supply conditions. AI

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RANK_REASON User is asking for advice on a topic, not reporting on a new development.

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ML forecasting advice sought for agriculture crop volumes and pricing

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/foreigneverythingg ·

    Time Series Forecasting for Agriculture/Crop Volume & Pricing – Looking for Advice [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I work for a major berry company, and a large part of my role involves forecasting total industry crop volumes (weekly harvest/production forecasts) as well as future pricing.</p> <p>I'm relatively new to ML-based forecasting.…

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