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Errol Anderson
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Making sense of ag markets

Agriculture can’t escape global economic trends, but farmers can adapt their market plans to key numbers. In this second of five columns, market analyst Errol Anderson tells us how

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Grain prices rise, and grain prices fall. Sometimes it’s a straight supply issue. more grain gets produced, or less gets produced, and prices react accordingly. but those movements tend to happen over the short term. Often too, they’re tough to plan for because they’re sparked by either good weather or bad. Other issues hit on […] Read more
Marketing

Smarter option use for your market plan

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Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s been lots of talk about grain and oilseed growers who lost money on grain options. But it’s a different story this crop year. As a strategy, using put options to protect commodity returns close to their drought-year highs has paid off in spades. That’s because put options act as price insurance. These “puts” place […] Read more
Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada platform posted record daily trade volumes (51,805 contracts traded) on Dec. 4, 2013, beating the previous record (49,165) from June 9, 2010. (Dave Bedard photo)
Features, Marketing

Not dead yet

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Speculation about the impending death of Winnipeg canola futures misses the mark, industry watchers say Winnipeg’s canola futures have plenty of life left, say experts who refute any predictions about the inevitability of a death watch for the market. A year ago, record open interest was being set in the canola market, but when June 2013 […] Read more
Marketing

Make it the right name

Starting a new venture? Need a corporate name? Follow these pointers for a name you’ll be proud of

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Naming your farm or your business can be even more difficult than naming your children, where at least you can buy a book or click on a website with all the possibilities. The potential range of business names, by contrast, is virtually as wide as you can imagine. It also doesn’t matter if it turns […] Read more
Marketing

Is it market information, or only market noise?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Clearly, times have changed. When it comes to market analysis, we’ve seen a complete transformation. My career began way back around 1980 with Alberta Wheat Pool and its internal publication called Market Update. This publication basically tried to figure out supply and demand tables while keeping tabs of the latest weather forecasts and factoring them […] Read more
Marketing

Can the good times last?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Global financial markets are so volatile, we can’t help telling ourselves. Can we really expect grain markets to have long-term strength when the economic times are so turbulent? My question is slightly different. Can market analysis help us find a commodity market’s long-term direction, when there’s a long-term direction to find? Commodity markets produced many […] Read more
Marketing

How to market in these turbulent times

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Reading Time: 3 minutes During periods of unstable financial markets, commodities take on a different personality. Uncertainty breeds fear. Buyers fade out of the picture, and although farmers typically focus on the supply side of market fundamentals, the maket sees supply as only half the equation. If buyers reduce their buying, it doesn’t matter how tight supplies are on […] Read more
Marketing

How to market in these turbulent times

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Reading Time: 3 minutes During periods of unstable financial markets, commodities take on a different personality. Uncertainty breeds fear. Buyers fade out of the picture, and although farmers typically focus on the supply side of market fundamentals, the maket sees supply as only half the equation. If buyers reduce their buying, it doesn’t matter how tight supplies are on […] Read more

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