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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 harder to buy grain mean even more contracts with even more bells and whistles. It's enough to make your...
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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...
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When you, the grain merchandiser, think in terms of the buyer/user being your customer – rather than you being his customer – it puts a different...
