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Ag Marketing

Hedging Grain Market Risk with Options

Options trading is one of the ways that producers and speculators can engage the grain markets. In contrast to buying or selling futures contracts in...

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Ag Marketing

Maximize Your Harvest with Grain Futures Trading

Accurately predicting the financial result of your grain harvest months ahead of time is certainly a challenge. A litany of factors impact the final...

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Hedging

What Is Cross Commodity Hedging?

Cross commodity hedging is a popular way of managing risk for producers and speculators alike. Also referred to as cross hedging, this financial...

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Ag Marketing

5 Factors of Grain Market Analysis

Ag futures products offer participants an environment rich in both opportunity and utility. Whether your purpose in the markets is active hedging or...

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Futures Investing

3 PRIMARY MARKET DRIVERS OF CATTLE FUTURES PRICES

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers a variety of agricultural futures contracts for public trade. From grains to livestock, hedgers and...

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Ag Marketing

3 Primary Market Drivers of Cattle Futures Prices

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offers a variety of agricultural futures contracts for public trade. From grains to livestock, hedgers and...

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Ag Marketing

Hedging Your Crop with Futures vs Options

It’s a debate as old as time: futures versus options. When does one use futures? When does one use options? When does one use both at the same time?...

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Ag Marketing

Basics of Grain Basis Trading: “Long the Basis”

Basis Trading is a strategy used by elevators (and some farmers) looking to take advantage of favorable basis prices by exploiting the difference...

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Ag Marketing

The Basics of Grain Basis Trading

Grain Basis is the difference between the price of a commodity in the local market subtracted from the price of the commodity in the futures market....

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