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Contracting with Futures
In our last installment, we discussed forward contracting agreements in the cash market along with some of the considerations that go along with this type… Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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