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March 27, 2024 | Luke Williams, Ag Risk Management Advisor

Lock in corn and soybean prices

Lock in corn and soybean prices

I won’t spend a lot of time on this, as we are already into March and talking about planting the 2024 crop. But I think it’s important to look back for just a second. Probably the biggest thing to be learned from 2023 with regard to grain marketing is you must stay consistent with your approach.

What can we learn from 2023?

There were so many times in 2023 when it was easy to get emotional about the weather or your crop…and completely abandon the marketing plan you set up to start the year. When you consider we were all making comparisons to the 1988 and 2012 crops as late as June 20, it’s hard to believe we would end up raising a record crop in many parts of the Midwest.

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