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Jeff Reardon: May 5, 2015
It can be very painful for grain companies to change banks. New financial relationships require conference calls, planning sessions, and a lot of documentation. The past three years of low operating line usage have taken the financial pressure off...
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It seems like each crop year that comes around brings new types of contracts with new promises. Of course, the years of low prices that make it...
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Jeff Reardon: Mar 10, 2015
The handling margin (back-to-back margin) is captured when the bushels are sold and delivered when grain companies value inventory and purchase...
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Scott Hardy: Feb 24, 2015
The word habits has sort of a negative connotation. We could make long list of negative habits. What pops into your head when you think of good...
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Jeff Reardon: Feb 17, 2015
The New Year brings a flurry of preparing financial statements and crunching financial ratios in an effort to get under the tax man’s bar or jump...
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Jeff Reardon: Feb 10, 2015
The grain company CFO may have been viewed as a rare species prior to 2008, but the last 7 years have quickly brought the need for a CFO’s skill set...
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Sherry Lorton: Feb 3, 2015
A Plan in the Making
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Sherry Lorton: Jan 27, 2015
Planning with a Purpose
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Sherry Lorton: Jan 20, 2015
It is winter and the grain elevator is abuzz with activity . . . you have old crop bushels to empty out of the bin, grain to move off the farm, and...
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Over the last decade of traveling the country and visiting with grain elevator managers and merchandisers, I’ve seen and heard some pretty amazing...
