BOONE, Iowa — A four-session Women Marketing Grain Series will be offered to assist women in developing plans for marketing old and new crop corn and soybeans. The series will begin on Monday evening, Feb. 4 and meets over four consecutive Monday evenings, Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25 at the DMACC Boone Campus, 1125 Hancock Drive, Boone. The registration deadline is Jan. 28.
In this course, women will learn how to:
Recognize crop marketing terms and sources of obtaining current futures and cash market prices
Understand basis, futures carry, cost of grain ownership, supply/demand fundamentals, and technical chart signals
Recognize seasonal price trends
Use crop marketing tools including spot cash sales, forward contracts, hedge-to- arrive contracts, futures hedging and the use of both put and call options
Develop a crop marketing plan
Classes are 6-9 p.m. each evening with a light supper at 5:30 p.m. Registration for this series is $75. For questions, please contact Alex Merk at (515) 432-3882 or alexmerk@iastate.edu.
To register, visit http://www.aep.iastate.edu/womeninag.
— Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
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