Articles

Forward Contracting Agreements

For the first article in our series of comparing contracting alternatives, we are going to review the features of a forward agreement in the cash… Read more »
Margin Management Adjustments – A Look at Corn

Summertime tends to bring added volatility to the corn market and this year has certainly been no different. From a life of contract low price… Read more »
Open Outcry Goes Dark

The CME Group announced this past February its intention to close down open outcry, or floor based trading of agricultural futures this summer beginning in… Read more »

Historical Analysis and Margin Management

One of our first articles in Margin Manager last year discussed evaluating a forward margin opportunity and how to objectively measure that opportunity from a… Read more »
Understanding PPD and Hedging Milk in Dairy Margin Management

Dairy producers face a unique challenge in margin management that their counterparts in the swine and beef cattle industries do not share. Unlike cattle and… Read more »
Protecting Higher Prices Against Long Physical Ownership

Recently, we received a call from a lender who had attended one of our seminars with a concern reviewing a client’s account statement. The lender’s… Read more »

The Cash Market and Margin Management

Within a margin management context, profitability is ultimately determined by the costs and revenues that are realized in one’s local marketplace. In this respect, the… Read more »
Looking at the Full Picture

For many margin managers, using derivative contracts to protect forward profitability can be challenging given the performance bond requirements of various futures and options strategies…. Read more »
The Dairy Margin Protection Program – Is It Right for Me?

Many dairy producers have questions regarding the new government Margin Protection Program including if they should sign up for it and how it will work… Read more »