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Jeff Reardon: Jan 19, 2016
Last year’s sales have been made, the numbers are great, but the receivables are growing. Will you get paid for the inventory you delivered? When farm margins get tighter receivables and payables become a much larger part of the financial management...
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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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Jeff Reardon: Sep 22, 2015
“Trust but verify” is a Russian proverb Ronald Reagan made famous, but risk managers, CFO’s and grain company lenders live by it today.
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Sherry Lorton: Sep 1, 2015
When you see what appear to be good, well-established, long-standing companies suddenly fall apart it makes you wonder. How do good businesses go...
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In the workplace, training and development can often be an overlooked or underutilized approach to improving business. Often the myth is that with...
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Jeff Reardon: Jul 14, 2015
Grain Merchandisers intentionally eliminate as much currency risk as possible and trade based on the changes in the basis in the grain markets. The...
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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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Being a grain merchandiser can be a pretty lonely existence. There just aren't that many people on the planet that truly understand what a grain...
