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Grains


  • Canola Marketing -- Cash Markets
    Canola Council of Canada

    The futures price is established in a public forum based on a supply and demand; spreads between futures months reflect the cost of carrying (storage and interest) canola from one futures month to the next. 
  • Canola Marketing -- Market Analysis
    Canola Council of Canada

    The price outlook for various grains and oilseeds is important when you make your planting decisions. Your expectations of future price levels will influence the timing of your sales.
  • Canola Marketing -- Options on Futures
    Canola Council of Canada

    Options on futures are a marketing tool which you can use to capture pricing opportunities and reduce risk while maintaining the ability to take advantage of market price changes. 
  • Canola Marketing -- Price Determination
    Canola Council of Canada

    Price for oilseeds is established internationally, there are domestic influences which also contribute to the final price you receive for your canola.
  • Canola Marketing -- Strategy Review
    Canola Council of Canada

    Not only do you need to be aware of international market conditions, but also domestic ones. You should now be able to identify factors that affect prices from year to year, as well as during the year.
  • Canola Marketing -- Using the Futures Market
    Canola Council of Canada

    The price someone is willing to pay for a quantity of canola at a given period in time, and the price someone is willing to sell that same quantity of canola for, is arrived at in public through an open bidding system.
  • Knowing and Managing Grain Basis
    Stephen Amosson, Jim Mintert, William Tierney and Mark Waller, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, June 1998

    Basis is the difference between a cash price and the futures price of a particular commodity on a given futures exchange.
  • Multiple Year Pricing Strategies for Corn
    David Kenyon & Chuck Beckman, Virginia Cooperative Extension, 1996

    This publication explains how to take advantage of  favorable prices by pricing three years production at one time.
  • Multiple Year Pricing Strategies for Soybeans
    David Kenyon & Chuck Beckman, Virginia Cooperative Extension, 1996

    This publication explains how to take advantage of  favorable prices by pricing three years production at one time.
  • Quality Oriented Marketing of Hard Winter Wheat
    Tim Herrman, Robert K. Bequette, Patrick J. McCluskey, John R. Pederson, Joseph G. Ponte and James P. Shroyer, Kansas State University Research & Extension, June 1995

    This bulletin was prepared to help educate producers, grain handlers, and grain merchandisers in technology used to evaluate hard winter wheat quality and to explain the relationship between these measurements and end-use properties.
  • Soft White Wheat Market Characterization
    Tom Worley, Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service, December 1998

    This chapter contains data tables and charts which characterize wheat markets at differing levels of aggregation including world totals, United States and Pacific Northwest regional markets. The chapter is intended to show important relationships among the various . . .
  • Soft White Wheat Market Characterization - Section I: Tables and Charts
    Tom Worley, Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service, December 1998

    This chapter contains data tables and charts which characterize wheat markets at differing levels of aggregation including world totals, United States and Pacific Northwest regional markets. The chapter is intended to show important relationships among the various . . .
  • Soft White Wheat Market Characterization - Section II: Tables and Charts
    Tom Worley, Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service, December 1998

    This chapter contains data tables and charts which characterize wheat markets at differing levels of aggregation including world totals, United States and Pacific Northwest regional markets. The chapter is intended to show important relationships among the various . . .
  • Soft White Wheat Market Characterization - Section III: Tables and Charts
    Tom Worley, Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service, December 1998

    This chapter contains data tables and charts which characterize wheat markets at differing levels of aggregation including world totals, United States and Pacific Northwest regional markets. The chapter is intended to show important relationships among the various . . .
  • Sunflower Marketing in the High Plains
    Daniel O'Brien, Kansas State University Research & Extension, December 1997

    Sunflower is a viable alternative crop for growers in Kansas and other areas of the High Plains. It is well adapted agronomically to both irrigated production and nonirrigated crop rotations, and it is a viable "double crop" option where growing season length permits.

 

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