Roger Gattis

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5 Actions to Take Before Harvest

Take advantage of this transition period to reflect, strategize, and prepare for the upcoming season. Summertime in the grain business is both a time for wrapping up and a time for gearing up. Just as we get the last of the old crop grain...

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Merchandising:  What's the Worst that Could Happen?

As the season of fall harvest planning is upon us, let us take a moment to review the idea, and the reality, of the importance of having a grain flow...

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Contract Integrity - White Commercial Blog Post - a futures broker for Grain Elevators

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The Importance of Contract Integrity for Grain Elevators

What is contract integrity? Simply put, contract integrity refers to the viability and enforceability of a grain company’s policies and procedures...

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Plug the Leak & Build Higher Sides

On the farm, you’re likely never very far off from having to plug the next leak. The tire on the planter, the head gasket on the service truck or...

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Grain Origination Comprehension and Competency

As a member of the grain elevator community, we often wear multiple hats over the course of a season; accountant, PR rep, grader, dispatcher,...

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Charts

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Farm Marketing: The 5 Steps You Must Take Today

If there is anything that the past several seasons of farming has taught us, it’s that there is indeed nothing new under the sun. Looking back, the...

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Don’t Play The Victim: Grain Merchandising Through Adversity Requires A Plan

This year many of the ghosts of grain merchandising past have revisited us; low cash prices, higher than normal harvest basis levels, uncertainty of...

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Blocked Door

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Is Your Grain Merchandising Plan In a 4-Alarm Emergency or Fire Drill?

When was the last time you actually walked through your merchandising plan? In the midst of the lackadaisical pricing environment of this past...

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Black Bears, Yellow Corn, and Grain Marketing Hibernation

Resisting the urge to float the current of all things holly and jolly, I have found a more unique, if not better, analogy for describing some of our...

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Is Your Grain Merchandising Program an Activist or a Pacifist?

Despite just wrapping up an intense and at times nauseating, campaign season, I am not referring to politics here. Another way of phrasing this...

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