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Manage Post-Election Grain Market Risk

Volatile markets create opportunities. And when those opportunities present themselves, you can use those favorable price swings to do good things that seemed out of your reach, or you can choose to sit back and wait for just the right price. 

The problem with this neat plan is that the same volatile underlying conditions that provided unexpected gifts can swiftly take them away before you’ve capitalized and/or captured revenue, either with sales or at least some sort of hedging action.

In the past seven days we saw a monumental amount of news! A presidential election, a USDA report and a Fed meeting all bunched together, creating a perfect storm for market volatility. And markets did not disappoint.

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