If you have a short ball-handler on your basketball team, do you make adjustments to your game plan? Sure you do. Why are market principles any different?

We talk a lot about diversifying these days – have you considered diversifying your grain marketing strategies? It's time.

Is it just me, or does the summer feel as though it is passing us by quite rapidly? Well, it’s not just me – and time does feel like it is moving faster every year. In just a few weeks, the kids will be back in school, and we will begin looking at the fall work.

None of us knows for a surety just where the markets are going, but we can look at how we can manage our price risk in these markets. 

At the time I wrote this article, we were in the middle of experiencing some of the most volatile futures markets in years.