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ML forecasting advice sought for agriculture crop volumes and pricing

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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