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Ed Usset is a grain marketing specialist for the University of Minnesota Center for Farm Financial Management. As a regular Corn & Soybean Digest columnist, Ed offers marketing plans and advice. He’s also the professor behind the online Back To School quiz on www.csdigest.com.
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  • May 15, 2012
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    3 Things to Watch After May USDA Reports: Corn Yield, Soybean Acreage, Corn Feed/Residual Use

    USDA reports frequently move markets and last week’s first supply/demand for the 2012 grain and oilseed crops was no exception. The day of the report, July corn closed down 20¢/bu. and cotton down 4¢/lb., while July beans closed 25¢/bu. higher and wheat 1¢ higher. Despite the immediate market reaction to the numbers, some aspects of the reports are debatable. Here are a few numbers Brock analysts expect to change....More
  • May 14, 2012
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    Corn Market Direction Unfolding; Magnitude Still Uncertain

    The USDA’s projections of U.S. and world corn and feed grain supply-and-demand conditions presented in the May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report set the benchmark by which the corn market will judge unfolding events. According to Darrel Good, a University of Illinois agricultural economist, those events are continually unfolding, with some of the more important ones to be revealed this summer....More
  • Apr. 1, 2012
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    Lock In Soybeans | $12 or $13 Soybean Prices are Tempting

    Are the fundamentals surrounding soybeans causing prices to surpass expectations? At least one Corn Belt grain marketing specialist thinks so. And it could be a signal for you to sell more beans this spring. Price volatility can take the life out of a market in a flash....More
  • Apr. 1, 2012
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    Hedging with an Opinion

    Last month I explored the hedging practices of merchandisers, exporters and processors, and how it is more than avoiding risk. These are basis traders who employ the purest form of hedging - placing long and short hedges regardless of price expectations or market opinion....More
  • Apr. 1, 2012
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    Marketing 101: HTA is Not a Four-Letter Word

    HTAs can be a marketing tool that offers the benefits of hedging without threat of a margin call. But many think first of the hedge-to-arrive fiascoes in the mid-1990s. They are among a range of forward contracts offered by grain elevators, ethanol plants and other grain buyers, says Melvin Brees, University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) economist....More
  • Apr. 1, 2012
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    An Extreme Market

    As planting season gets underway, every year getting the crop in the ground and good growing weather is important. This year may be more important on both fronts than normal, however....More
  • Mar. 6, 2012
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    National Ag Week 2012

    National Ag Week is being celebrated March 4-10 all across the U.S., and Thursday, March 8, has been designated as National Ag Day. It is a good time to reflect on all the traditions and advancements that help make the U.S. agriculture industry second to none! Following are some interesting statistics about today’s agriculture industry....More
  • Mar. 6, 2012
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    MF Global Update

    More than 87,000 farmers have been affected by the MF Global meltdown through their grain co-op ownership, even if they have never traded futures or options, as their co-op earnings may drop if the bankruptcy court doesn’t make the firm’s clients whole. Even the value of their co-op stock could be affected....More
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