Time Stamp Your Grain Marketing Plan
February 13, 2025
Time-stamped grain marketing is a tool for mitigating risk and planning for profit. By selling portions of your crop at intervals throughout the year, you may increase your chances
Seasonal Price
Historically, grain prices tend to be more favorable during different time periods. With the Seasonal Price contract, you have the opportunity to take advantage of those seasonal prices by receiving the average futures prices during the respective seasonal price window. The Seasonal Price window may help you capture historic seasonal price premiums with automatic execution that simplifies grain marketing.
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How it Works
How it Works
The Seasonal Price window helps capture the historic seasonal price premiums of new crop futures prior to each year’s harvest. When you’re ready to establish a grain contract, here are the steps:
- You enroll a portion of your production before the pricing period begins.
- An equal portion of the grain is priced every day during the pricing period, based on the Chicago Board of Trade’s daily futures settlement price for the respective futures month.
- When the pricing period concludes, your Seasonal Price Futures Reference Price is established. You decide when to set the basis.
- You deliver your grain and receive a final price. The final price is the Seasonal Price Futures Reference Price +/- Basis – Service Fee.
Note: Specific dates can change on an annual basis. Markets fluctuate and ADM is not responsible for market changes. For current dates, talk to your local ADM representative. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. ADM does not warrant this information to be free of omissions and errors.
Benefits
Benefits
- Captures the average futures price during a historically beneficial window.
- Once enrolled, the contract automatically executes for you.
- Allows you to set the basis.
- Provides an early price-out feature so you maintain some control of your final pricing.
- Helps diversify your grain marketing plan.
- Establishes a challenging benchmark for the rest of your grain marketing.
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