Marketing the 2001 Crop:
Strategies for Pricing Your Grain

Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Kelly Inn on Main Avenue (I-29 & Main Ave) Fargo, North Dakota

Assess your grain selling plan at this timely marketing seminar. Review post-harvest selling strategies for wheat and barley.  Fine-tune your pre-harvest selling plan for corn, beans and other late-season crops.  Get up-to-speed on key factors that affect your grain sell/store decisions, including LDPs, the 60-day PCP lock, and your local basis.

Rick Warner, Market Analyst with Country Hedging

Learn about the importance of having a marketing plan and the required discipline that follows. A short example using Marketeer planning software will be given to illustrate the effectiveness of planning ahead.  Historical charts as well as fundamental reasons will be used.

Betsy Jensen, NCTC Farm Business Management

From an easy-to-follow producer’s perspective, Betsy will reveal strategies that many farmers are discussing and implementing in the various marketing groups she works with.

Tara Dagman, Program Director for the Minnesota Wheat Council and Minnesota Wheat Growers Assn.

Learn where and how to easily find local and regional information on the Internet. Local weather, markets, news, LDPs basis & futures charts and much more will be demonstrated. Dagman will show you new and efficient ways to use the Internet.

Sponsored By:
Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers, Minnesota Wheat Research & Promotion Council and the North Dakota Grain Growers Association

This event made possible in part by a risk management education grant provided by the USDA Risk  Management Agency.