2024 Grain Traders Workshop

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This course is designed to:

• Introduce attendees on the process of merchandizing
• Familiarize attendees with the process of grain from farm to commercial storage and ultimately the end user
• Explain the futures and options markets and how/when to use those derivative markets to hedge physical grain positions
• Get attendees thinking about their position as an aggregate basis position rather than a series of individual transactions
• Examine the interactive relationship between basis, futures and forward spread and learn how to respond to carry and inverse environments
• Show some simple grain accounting to get a sense of what your accounting software is doing but more importantly, to gid deeper into how the daily flow of grain is accumulated into a position, creating opportunities in the local basis market
• Introduce attendees to some basic grain origination contracts that can be used to increase a company’s handle