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Cash Crop Growing Season

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Cash Crop Growing Season (Part 2)

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Considerations When Selling Grain

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How Macro-Economics Affects Sales Timing

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How Price Moes After Critical Events

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How To Read Candlestick Charts

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Straddles & Strangles

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The Speculative Money Cycle

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Types of Grain Marketing Advisors & Commodity Brokers

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Types of Buy & Sell Orders

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Market Hierarchies

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Types of Basis Markets

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Corn's Supply Chain

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Soybean's Supply Chain

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Cash Crop Growing Seasons

 

Cash Crop Growing Seasons

What are the growing seasons of different US Crops?

  • When are Corn, Soybeans, Rice, Wheat, and Cotton grown?
  • This is an easy graphic with general crop growing seasons
Cash Crop Growing Seasons (Part 2)

 

Cash Crop Growing Seasons (Part 2)

How weather and geography affect crop cycles

  • Within each crop, production timing varies
  • Every crop region plants and harvests at different times
  • Those times change with the weather almost every year
Considerations When Selling Grain

 

Considerations When Selling Grain

What factors influence grain sales?

  • Everyone uses different benchmarks for good grain prices
  • Consider WHEN to sell grain seasonally
  • What information determines how and when to sell grain?
  • What type of Pricing Tool will you use to make grain sales?
How Macro -Economics Affects Sales Timing

 

How Macro-Economics Affects Sales Timing

How the broader economy can affect grain prices

  • Grain is traded on international markets
  • Inflation, interest rates, and economic recessions play a role
  • Commodity grain prices fluctuate based on these factors
How Price Moves After Critical Events

 

How Price Moves After Critical Events

USDA reports and “Black Swans” move grain prices

  • Critical events like USDA crop reports, weather forecasts, black swan events
  • There are expected outcomes and unexpected outcomes
  • Unexpected outcomes tend to move grain prices more
How To Read Candlestick Charts

 

How To Read Candlestick Charts

Candlestick charts can look intimidating at first…

  • Technical grain traders use candlestick charts
  • They contain lots of information about grain markets
  • Don’t be afraid! Anyone can read these charts
Straddles & Strangles

 

Straddles & Strangles

More information on advanced grain trading mechanisms

  • How these grain trading strategies anticipate volatility
  • What situations these strategies are used for
  • Events with potential volatility like USDA crop reports and “Black Swan” events
The Speculative Money Cycle

 

The Speculative Money Cycle

How do “The Funds” inject cash into grain markets?

  • Speculators inject cash into grain markets
  • That liquidity allows Farmers to easily enter and exit market positions
  • Most money flow exchanges between speculators
  • How money flows from Farmer producers to end-users
Types of Grain Marketing Advisors & Commodity Brokers

 

Types of Grain Marketing Advisors & Commodity Brokers

Which is the right grain price advisor for you?

  • Every Farmer needs a different type of grain market advisor
  • Every grain advisor has a different market bias and strategy
  • How to decide what type of grain market advisor is best for your grain marketing strategy
Types of Buy & Sell Orders

 

Types of Buy & Sell Orders

Different ways to capture grain price targets

  • Order types, not just “At the Market” or ATM
  • Sell Limit/ Buy Limit
  • Sell Stop/ Buy Stop
  • Situations on when to use these market execution orders
Market Hierarchies

Market Hierarchies

Who are all the players in the grain markets?

  • How are grain contracts traded?
  • Exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)
  • Clearing firms holding margin money/ performance bonds
  • Introducers and Farmers setting grain prices
Types of Basis Markets

 

Types of Basis Markets

A look into cash grain basis markets for Farmers

  • Different types of grain buyers, elevators, and end-users
  • Competition in local cash grain markets and how they affect basis on the farm
  • How transportation affects basis and delivery decisions on your grain
Corn's Supply Chain

 

Corn’s Supply Chain

How is commodity Corn used and where does it go?

  • From the Farmer to the end-user
  • Grain transport channels, supply chains, and basis
  • Ethanol plants, Dried Distiller’s Grains (DDGs), and feed grains
Soybean's Supply Chain

 

Soybean’s Supply Chain

How are commodity Soybeans used and where do they go?

  • From the Farmer to the end-user
  • Grain transport, supply chains, and basis
  • Soybean crush, Soybean oil, Soybean meal, livestock feed, and biodiesel 

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