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