Introducing
Commodity Position Management
The discipline of managing the market side of the farm across the entire harvest-to-harvest window.
Manage the position
Not the prediction
The farm has 2 sides:
Production
Market
Two Sides. | One Business.
You manage production every day. Your market position deserves the same attention, discipline, and plan.
From managing decisions
to managing the Position.
Transactional Marketing
✔ Asks “What will the market do next?”
✔ Focuses on individual decisions
✔ Managed at points in time
✔ Decisions in the moment
Commodity Position Management
✔ Asks “How do I want my position to behave?”
✔ Focuses on the overall position
✔ Managed across time
✔ Decisions made before the moment
What changes when you manage the position?
You know your downside.
Instead of waiting for the right time to sell, you establish where protection begins.
You don’t have to choose between selling & staying in the market.
Sales and market participation become separate choices.
Your grain has value beyond futures prices.
Basis, carry, and delivery become part of the same management plan.
You have a plan for what happens next.
Decisions are defined before emotion and hindsight take over.
Position?
What’s your
Locations
East Peoria, IL • Bloomington, IL • Princeton, IL • Edwards, IL
Bettendorf, IA • Mediapolis, IA • Westfield, IN
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