| Agricultural Publications |
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| Establishing A Feed Cost Range For Hog Operations |
This strategy focuses on how to manage feed costs for the hog industry.
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| Establishing A Feed Cost Range For Cattle Operations |
This strategy focuses on how to manage feed costs for the cattle industry.
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| Establishing A Feed Cost Range For Dairy Operations |
This strategy focuses on how to manage feed costs for the dairy industry.
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| Establishing A Poultry Feed Cost Range - Spanish |
This White Paper focuses on managing the cost of poultry feed and describes a price protection strategy.
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| A Hedger's Self Study Guide |
If you're new to futures and options on futures, the first four chapters will give you a solid foundation. Chapters 5 and 6 include futures and options strategies, both from a buying and selling hedger's perspective. As a result of this revision, the book has been renamed Agricultural Futures and Options: A Hedger's Self-Study Guide.
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| Crop Report Opportunity |
This report shows how the buying of short-dated options on soybean futures can be a relatively low-cost and low-risk way to express a market opinion on what a U.S.D.A. crop report will reveal.
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| Establishing A Poultry Feed Cost Range |
This White Paper focuses on managing the cost of poultry feed and describes a price protection strategy. |
| South American Soybeans Futures - The Delivery Process |
A brochure outlining the delivery process for the CBOT's new South American Soybean Futures Contract.
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| CBOT Agricultural and Metals Complex |
Commodity Futures and Options Contracts Salient Features September 2006
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| A Hedger's Self-Study Guide-Traditional Chinese Version |
If you're new to futures and options on futures, the first four chapters will give you a solid foundation. Chapters 5 and 6 include futures and options strategies, both from a buying and selling hedger's perspective. As a result of this revision, the book has been renamed Agricultural Futures and Options: A Hedger's Self-Study Guide.
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| A Hedger's Self-Study Guide-Simplified Chinese Version |
If you're new to futures and options on futures, the first four chapters will give you a solid foundation. Chapters 5 and 6 include futures and options strategies, both from a buying and selling hedger's perspective. As a result of this revision, the book has been renamed Agricultural Futures and Options: A Hedger's Self-Study Guide.
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| A Hedger's Self-Study Guide-Spanish Version |
If you're new to futures and options on futures, the first four chapters will give you a solid foundation. Chapters 5 and 6 include futures and options strategies, both from a buying and selling hedger's perspective. As a result of this revision, the book has been renamed Agricultural Futures and Options: A Hedger's Self-Study Guide.
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| CBOT DJAIG Excess Return Reference Guide |
The CBOT DJ-AIGCI Excess Return futures contract (“DJ-AIG ER”) is designed to provide a highly liquid, standardized alternative to custom over-the-counter transactions on the DJ-AIGCI.
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| CBOT Soybean Crush Reference Guide |
In the soybean industry, the term ‘crush’ refers both to a physical process as well as a value calculation. The physical crush is the process of converting soybeans into the by-products of soybean meal and soybean oil. The crush spread is a dollar value quoted as the difference between the combined sales values of the products and the cost of the raw soybeans.
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| An Introduction to Trading CBOT Agricultural Futures and Options |
A world without grains and oilseeds and the commodity markets in which they are efficiently traded would be unthinkable. In whole and processed forms, grains and oilseeds provide nourishing food for our families, feed our livestock and are primary ingredients for an ever-increasing range of non-food products including renewable fuels.
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| Grain and Soybean Futures and Options |
A brief overview of the history, contracts, and trading processes of the Chicago Board of Trade Grain & Soybean markets.
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| Agricultural Metric Conversion Guide |
Includes tables for converting metric tons to U.S. measurements. Also included in this handy pocket guide are price conversion tables equating the dollar value of a given commodity to the dollar value in metric tons.
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| Buyer's Guide to Managing Price Risk (Spanish) |
Covers the basics of hedging with futures contracts from a buyer's perspective, basis, and more advanced trading techniques, including rolling hedges.
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| Buyer's Guide to Managing Price Risk |
Covers the basics of hedging with futures contracts from a buyer's perspective, basis, and more advanced trading techniques, including rolling hedges.
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| Strategies for Managing Price Risk |
Provides buying strategies for food processors using futures and options. A special section compares a variety of buying strategies, highlighting the pros and cons of each.
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| Understanding Basis (English) |
Defines basis, explains the relationship between cash grain prices and futures prices, and describes how basis is used by producers and processors to make marketing decisions.
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| Understanding Basis (Spanish) |
Base El Entender: La base el entender define base, explica el lazo entre los precios del grano del efectivo y los precios de los futuros, y describe como la base es utilizada por los productores y los procesadores para tomar decisiones de la comercializacion.
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