The unknowns of the upcoming corn and soybean marketing year are numerous: crop size, demand, weather, trade impacts, etc.   All these factors come in the wake of the United States producing the six biggest corn crops in history in the past six years and the five  biggest soybean crops produced in the past five years.  All this uncertainty adds up to major financial risk in managing the margin between prices and costs of production.

Having a plan is a good place to start.  Initial steps are to use revenue type crop insurance to help give the confidence to make pre-harvest sales...