Crop Margin Management Seminar – TBD

Day 1 Topics Covered

• Identifying Your Exposures

We begin with an introduction to commodity price risk management, with a focus on the critical first step of building a risk model for your operation by using the futures market to project profit and loss.

• Understanding Your Market Risk

Expanding on the concept of a sound risk model, we examine the components of total cash price risk (futures prices and local basis values) and discuss the value of managing each risk as discrete and independent.

• Contracting Alternatives: Tools to Manage Risk

We lay out the full range of tools you can use to manage commodity price with an overview of cash contacts, an introduction to options, and a detailed discussion of futures.

• Applying Concepts Learned I

A price management exercise tests your ability to use futures and a basic options strategy to establish and protect a price for a simulated crop operation through several decision periods.

Day 2 Topics Covered

• Adding Flexibility with Options

Following a review of the prior day’s content, we introduce more advanced option strategies and how each can be used to establish the precise risk/return balance that’s right for your operation. You learn how multiple option positions can protect against higher or lower prices, and how to select the right position(s) for your needs.

• Creating a Margin Management Policy

Taking a step back from the tools and tactics of margin management, we highlight the value of a strategic approach and provide guidance on creating an objective framework to guide your future margin management decisions.

• Tailoring Your Strategy as Markets Change

Using examples, we illustrate how an active approach to margin management can improve long-term outcomes. We explore why and how to make changes to an initial position to address risk or take advantage of opportunities to capture attractive margins as commodity prices change over time.

• Applying Concepts Learned II

A second, more advanced exercise reinforces your understanding of how to initiate and adjust positions over a marketing period to achieve a margin objective. We conclude by evaluating the choices made at various decision points and the resulting effects on net margins.

Seminar Details

Date and Time

TBD

Location

TBD

Registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, an evening cocktail reception and all seminar materials. For more information or enroll by phone, please call 312.596.7755.

NASBA Continuing Education Credits

CPE Credits: 12

Commodity & Ingredient Hedging, LLC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org.

Learning Objective

Participants will be introduced to the mechanics of the futures and options markets and the terminology related to the futures industry. Participants will also learn how to utilize risk management strategies to manage commodity price risk.

Prerequisites

None

Delivery Method

Live