Hedging Strategies Session 3
This unit discusses various outcomes to an options hedging decision. Which way the market moves, how much time is left, and the valuation changes in [...]
Cash Market Fundamentals Session 2
This unit builds on the case for seeking cash marketing opportunities by discussing returns to storage. Capturing market carry, rolling sales forward, and calculating returns [...]
Hedging Strategies Session 2
This unit builds on the hedging framework by introducing hedging with options. Definitions and common terminology, a comparison of different option strategies, and different order [...]
Hedging Strategies Session 1
This unit introduces hedging as a concept for managing price risk, by defining it and showing how the math behind it works. Describing when and [...]
Marketing Plan Risk Assessment
This unit discusses the case for using a marketing plan and how to use it as a decision-making framework. Describing how to develop a marketing [...]
Cash Market Fundamentals
This unit defines basis, futures spreads, and the factors that influence each. Basis trends over time, normal basis patterns, and separating basis and futures marketing [...]
Webinar: What Six Secrets Research Has Taught Us About High Yield Soybeans
Dr. Fred Below reviews five years of research on “The Six Secrets of Soybean Success," a concept for producing high-yield soybeans which he evaluated in [...]
Webinar: Managing the Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System in 2017
Chris Kamienski, Monsanto technology development representative, and Lance Tarochione, CCA and Monsanto technical agronomist, review seed and herbicide product use and stewardship and weed control [...]
Webinar: Lessons From the 2016 Soybean Season – Another Outstanding Crop
Emerson Nafziger, Ph.D., professor of crop sciences and extension agronomist at the University of Illinois, discusses the 2016 soybean crop
Linking BMP and Water Quality Success in Indian Creek Watershed
Chad Watts, Sarah Church, Ph.D. and Ursula Mahl, discuss the Indian Creek Watershed Project (ICWP). The ICWP is an innovative approach to voluntary adoption of [...]