Dan Manternach is a seasoned, independent agricultural economist, speaker and author. A graduate of Iowa State University, Dan was raised on a diversified grain and livestock farm in northeast Iowa. During his 40-year career, he has been an executive with four of the top ag market advisory services in the U.S., served as part-time adjunct instructor in futures and options trading for commercial risk management at the University of Northern Iowa, and provided consultation to the U.S. Grains Council on a trade mission to China. Dan has extensive experience offering risk management counsel on major field crops, hogs and cattle. He leads grain marketing seminars, courses and lectures across the Midwest.
During the past 20 years or so, a host of new types of marketing contracts have been offered by major grain companies or professional marketing advisory services. In fact, new ones are still being developed and offered today. NGCS help meet four common cr
There are different types of market risk you can face in choosing the wisest marketing tool for the job at hand. They are: futures market risk, basis risk and opportunity risk.
After you master the bar chart basics to following the ag commodities markets, the next step is to better understand a few of the pro tips to navigating them. Technical studies - a common approach used by advisors serving farmers - can help you to follow
Throughout human history, we can observe cycles, or the tendency of certain events to repeat themselves at regular, predictable intervals. There are many variables in supply and demand for ag commodities, so it’s no easy task for the laws of economics to
Assumptions behind technical analysis, as well as bar chart basics and what trend lines and common chart formations tell us about market signals.
Cynics often remark that the trick to making a small fortune in futures trading is to start out with a large one. It may seem like a never-ending poker game between bulls always wanting to bet on higher prices, and bears always betting on lower ones. The
Making sense of hedgers versus speculators, puts versus calls, derivative marketing tools and perspectives on drivers of option premiums.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was launched way back in 1848 by a group of 25 Chicago businessmen. It stemmed from shortcomings in the system at the time of strictly cash market activity between farmers and buyers, where a glut of grain offered at harv
FBN Members can now filter the benchmark in Analyze My Operation to either 50 or 100 miles.
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