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Ag Marketing IQ: Weather whims and potentially high prevented planting acres amplify corn price volatility. With wild price swings becoming the norm, your farm's profitability hangs in the balance. Here's what you need to know to stay ahead.

Price volatility in new-crop corn has increased of late amid considerable uncertainty about U.S. corn production potential.

An effective risk management plan is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to execute if it is not carefully constructed prior to an unexpected market development. With that said, the preparation of an appropriate marketing strategy well in advance sets the stage for calm, systematic response to volatile markets.

The official start to summer is three weeks away, yet price volatility in new-crop corn futures has already begun to increase – largely based on considerable uncertainty about U.S. corn production potential and recent history that shows how quickly price action can change.

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