Grain Marketing Workshop

No grain marketing experience is required.  This in-person workshop offers education and farm ready strategies on topics such as: basis, market carry, margins, cash markets, forward and futures contracts, hedge to arrive and basis contracts, differed price, hedging, storage, and overviews on options, spreads, and crop insurance.  Expert instructors: Seungki Lee, The Ohio State University, Grant Gardner, University of Kentucky, and Ben Brown, University of Missouri. It’s “more than a 2-day workshop”, featuring pre-workshop activity on calculating grain cost of production and measure of risk comfort. Workshop content will include workshop content and activities, plus a panel of industry professionals.  A post-workshop grain marketing peer group will be offered to strengthen learning into action.  The workshop has 50 limited seats.  Registration is $100 per person and includes two full days of training and materials, lunches, refreshments, and a networking reception/dinner on the evening of January 16th.  Lodging is own your own, however a block of rooms at a discounted rate are being held up until December 15, 2024 at a local hotel, Cobblestone Hotel & Suites ($139.00 per night - Two Queen Guestroom, Non-Smoking.  Hotel contact information and group rate code will be provided automatically with registration.

For more information please contact: Wm. Bruce Clevenger

clevenger.10@osu.edu or 419-770-6137