Marketing & Risk Management Online

www.grainfarmer.com/grainmarkets.htm -- The Grain Marketing Page— Good links and information about the grains markets

www.solarmatrix.com/chartroom -- Historical charts going back to 1960 for beans, corn, wheat, including seasonals (‘71 to current, ‘80 to current, ‘90 to current)

www.grainline.com -- Daily LDP checker, archived LDP rates, income estimator

www.agr.gc.ca/mad-dam/e/index2e.htm -- Agriculture Canada’s Market Analysis Division grains outlook, including specialty crops

 -- Free daily, weekly, monthly, and historical grain pricing charts.

www.smallgrains.org -- Website of the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers and the Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council, with daily news, weather forecasts customized by zip code, regional calendar of events, small grains production library, wheat trade, production, and nutrition facts, wheat research information, Prairie Grains archives, grain market quotes and charts, local elevator charting and basis information, local grain prices and much more.

www.ndmarketmanager.org -- North Dakota Grain Growers Association web site with links to marketing clubs in ND, local cash prices, weather, NDGGA info, and pros/cons of various grain contracts.

 www.montanamarketmanager.org -- Montana Grain Growers Association marketing and risk management web site

Universities, Government

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports -- USDA Market Reports

www.agrisk.umn.edu -- National Ag Risk Education Library, with links to many marketing and crop insurance topics.  Includes specialty crop library and enterprise budget library.

www.econ.iastate.edu/agrisk -- Iowa State University Managing Risks and Profits website, including link (“learning modules and software”) to an excellent 15-part educational series on grain marketing and risk management.

www.rma.usda.gov/pubs/rme/fctsht.html -- Scroll down for USDA Risk Management Agency fact sheets on crop insurance alternatives and grain contracts such as hedge-to-arrive, basis, deferred and minimum price.

http://mastermarketer.tamu.edu -- Texas A&M Master Marketer Program; see links under “Marketing Club Resources”

www.montana.edu/extensionecon/Marketing/agmarketing.html -- Montana State University Ag Marketing Page, including links to USDA weekly export volume report (a good indicator of how export volume is materializing for the current marketing year) monthly wheat exports by class, and fundamental charts.  Also, online workshops on grain marketing topics.

www.agmanager.info/crops -- Kansas State University information on crop marketing, budgets, and policy issues to assist producers in making marketing and management decisions.

www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/aginfo/cropmkt/cropmkt.htm -- NDSU Crop Management and Risk Management

www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/Sj_GR850.txt -- Daily USDA National Grain Market Summary

www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/market/contents.htm -- MSU Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library

www.msu.edu/user/hilker   -- Grain and livestock price probabilities

www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign site with a wealth of information on marketing and risk management information

http://econ.sdstate.edu/Extension/CMA.htm -- South Dakota State University Commodity Marketing analysis

www.cffm.umn.edu/publications/grain.aspx -- U of M Center for Farm Financial Management grain marketing

Commodity Exchanges

www.mgex.com -- Minneapolis Grain Exchange

www.cbot.com -- Chicago Board of Trade

www.kcbt.com -- Kansas City Board of Trade

www.wce.ca -- Winnipeg Commodity Exchange

Livestock Marketing Links

www.lmic.info -- Livestock Marketing Information Center NDSU Livestock Economics

www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/aginfo/lsmkt/livestock.htm -- NDSU Livestock Economics

www.ranchers.net -- See “markets” link