This program is designed to help hog producers identify and protect forward profit margins. Appropriate for all experience levels, this comprehensive two-day seminar includes a thorough review of cash market alternatives and a fundamental background of the futures and options market. The seminar will also focus on how the cash market, in combination with the options market, can help increase flexibility to optimize the profit margin in your operation.

A tour of the CME Group’s visitor center overlooking the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade is included to help reinforce the knowledge of why the markets exist and how they function. An online price management simulation ties together the hedging concepts learned throughout the program and allows you to leave with fresh ideas of how to improve your hog operation’s margin.