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Expensive Grain Marketing Lesson Most Farmers Learn OJT

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Aug 11, 20223 min read

Expensive Grain Marketing Lesson Most Farmers Learn OJT

Grain Marketing Trap Very Expensive A fairly new client called Monday afternoon and asked what should she do with 9,000 bushels of beans...

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Feb 7, 20225 min read

The Chicken Sexer

In the early 1980’s, I was a commodity broker with Heinold Commodities and Securities. The year of 1980 started with a bang on January...

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Dec 27, 20214 min read

Grain Market Gifts

Max has been a client for decades; he farms in Southwest Ohio. Max is a pretty easy going guy, but he takes business very seriously. I...

Puts Have a Place In Your Marketing Plan

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Nov 25, 20213 min read

Puts Have a Place In Your Marketing Plan

Put Options Would Have Made This Farmer Thousands of Dollars October 2021 This could happen to you if you don’t begin utilizing this...

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Jun 5, 20213 min read

HTA July to August Pricing

From Matt, a Facebook Grain Market Discussion Group Member, on 4 June, 2021: I have a soybean HTA for June/July delivery. The current...

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May 16, 202111 min read

1988 Drought and Uneducated Bankers

1988 Taught Us a Lot About Grain Marketing and The Banking Business When I was young and dumb, I believed what “by the book hedging”...

A Benefit of Knowing What Merchandisers Know

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May 16, 20212 min read

A Benefit of Knowing What Merchandisers Know

Late December, 2020 We have all heard, Cash is King. The King goes first when doing the math for a basis contract. Why is it important to...

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May 16, 20215 min read

Cargill Does Not Make Mistakes

Roger Scheiderer has been a client of mine for 36 years. He farms near Plain City, Ohio just northwest of Columbus. In 1986, he got into...

Fear of Futures Destroyed in One Day Life Long Family Business

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May 16, 20214 min read

Fear of Futures Destroyed in One Day Life Long Family Business

Like my dad, Dave was a teenager during the Depression of the 1930’s and was a soldier in WW II. He came home and got married like 16...

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May 16, 20216 min read

HTA Disaster of 1996

The first HTA in Ohio and possibly the Corn Belt was written December 29th, 1984. It was done at Shepard Grain Company in southwest...

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May 16, 20214 min read

Managing Market and Weather Risk

Early in 1991, as farmers were preparing their cash flow sheets for their operating loan application, December 1991 corn was in the $2.45...

Ugly First Experience with a Basis Contract

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May 16, 20215 min read

Ugly First Experience with a Basis Contract

The names have been changed to protect the guilty. The US corn crop in 1982 was the first 8-billion-bushel corn crop. Between the great...

Sell Cash Grain and Buy Futures: Right Attitude

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May 16, 20217 min read

Sell Cash Grain and Buy Futures: Right Attitude

The opportunity for farmers to sell cash grain and buy futures when they still expect futures to rally has been rarely used because they...

The Cost of Not Knowing How a Hedge Works

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May 16, 20217 min read

The Cost of Not Knowing How a Hedge Works

Even If You Never Use Futures, This Is Just One Reason Why You Need to Understand Futures and Hedging Joe had attended a seed dealer’s...

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May 16, 20213 min read

The Cost of Comfort

I called Autie the morning of March 6, 2018, to tell him to lock in the futures on 100% of his expected 2018 soybean production at $10.44...

Futures Market: Paranoia and Opportunity Lost

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May 16, 20218 min read

Futures Market: Paranoia and Opportunity Lost

What Paranoia of Futures Can Do to Your Grain Marketing Program In 1981, there were no cell phones and no internet. There were no DTN FM...

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May 16, 202110 min read

Buy Back Grain Delivery Contracts

After the great bean crops of 1984, ‘85, ’86 and ’87, soybean futures looked like they would never get above $6 again. So, when dry...

Managing the Basis, But Know the Character of Your Merchandiser

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May 16, 202110 min read

Managing the Basis, But Know the Character of Your Merchandiser

HTA Contracts Takes Money Out of Merchandisers’ Pockets and Puts It In Farmers’ Pockets This essay demonstrates the value of Hedge to...

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