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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,...
Grain Origination (2)
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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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24 Excuses to Delay Farm Marketing Decisions
If you have tried to originate grain for a day or for a lifetime, you’ve heard plenty of reasons NOT to sell grain. “OK,” you say, “why don’t we go...
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How to Avoid Farm Marketing Scams
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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Making a Game Plan for Farm Marketing
This time of year, with football games aplenty, basketball games on 27 out of 32 channels, and baseball just around the corner, inspires this simple...
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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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Using the Profit Talk In Your Grain Origination Program
Sherry Lorton: Dec 2, 2014
The typical discussion that occurs with a farmer at the elevator or coffee shop centers a lot around price.
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Basis and Futures: Two Beasts with One Burden
Simply stated, the shared burden of both the basis and futures is to move grain. When these signals are interpreted correctly, this task is...
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5 Grain Origination Reasons to Have the Minimum Price Discussion
By this point in the harvest season, the writing on the wall has become the chicken coming home to roost. That is, this massive crop that kept all...