This educational program initiated this period analyzes how cash forward contracts, hedging with commodity futures, and use of put options can reduce price risk both pre-harvest and stored grain post-harvest. A summary of the results has been presented in Extension grain market outlook meeting. The results have also been summarized and published in the Crops Marketing and Management Update newsletter. 

Manuscripts for Extension Bulletins that provide detailed results are with these publications available by December 2017. This applied research will be presented at regional professional meetings as well as submitted for publication in the appropriate academic journals.