Issue 23
Marketing Guide
1999

Prairie Grains is the official publication of the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers, North Dakota Grain Growers Association, South Dakota Wheat, Inc. and the Minnesota Barley Growers Assocation.

Copyright Prairie
Grains Marketing Guide
Summer 1999

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Seasonal crop price patterns can help guide grain sales

Choosing a profitable marketing strategy

Develop and implement a selling plan for 1999 grain

Want to improve your grain sales?  Start with the bases
 

A new interest in marketing clubs

Not comfortable heding alone?  Then go with a pro

Know the rules for loans, LDPs

Risk management and marketing information online

Also in this Issue......

• Historical trends clear: Grain stocks loom large on price
• Software manages farm finance, marketing risks
• Five common marketing mistakes
• Tips to become a better marketer
• Pro Farmer President to speak at Big Iron
• Management the gap in the grain price spectrum
• MN-ND Wheat & Barley Conference Date Set
• Management a determining factor in weathering the storm
• Prairie Shortcuts
• Efforts to organize marketing clubs in ND underway
• Puma winners

Our Thanks: This special Prairie Grains Marketing Guide is sponsored in part by the Minnesota Wheat Checkoff and the USDA Risk Management Agency's Risk Management Education Program.

On the Cover:  Cover photo courtesy the Chicago Board of Trade

Special Contributors:   Teri Huffaker, Minneapolis Grain Exchange and George Flaskerud, NDSU Extension Crops Economist.