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February 4, 2025 | JJ Keske, Ag Risk Management

Raise a Cheer for Volatility

Raise a Cheer for Volatility

Raise a Cheer for Volatility

Ag Marketing IQ: Here’s how you can establish a worst-case scenario for pricing your 2025 grain crop while staying open to take advantage of a possible rally.

Countless hours, sleepless nights and an insane amount of hard work goes into raising a crop and chasing higher yields. Let’s face it, many years the most stressful job on the farm is marketing your crop.

  • Do I sell into the rally?

  • Should I hold off until the time of year when we “usually” get a weather scare?

  • Can the futures market really fall any further?

These are all questions many farmers ask themselves year in and year out. This year another question is crossing the minds of many. What am I supposed to make of all the political headlines that daily affect the markets?

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