Webinar: How to Write a Pre-Harvest Marketing Plan 

Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025

Time: 1:00 pm CST  

Speaker: Ed Usset serves as a Grain Marketing Economist for the Center for Farm Financial Management (CFFM) at the University of Minnesota. Working with his colleagues at CFFM and in extension, Ed developed the award winning “Winning the Game” series of workshops. He also manages Commodity Challenge, an online marketing education game that uses real-time cash and futures data. At the University, Ed teaches “Commodity Markets” to undergraduate and graduate students. The 2nd Edition of his book, “Grain Marketing is Simple (It’s Just Not Easy)” was released in November, 2015. Ed regularly speaks to farm groups throughout the Corn Belt on the difficult challenge of marketing grain. He is also a regular contributor to Corn & Soybean Digest online.

Webinar Description: 
Ed Usset has spent his career studying and developing grain marketing strategies to help producers proactively & successfully market grain. The downturn in commodity prices & farm income has increased the need for a disciplined marketing strategy as we look to 2025. We have already sat down with Ed this past November to get his post-harvest marketing plan for the 2024 crop, now join us once again as we sit down with Ed to go over his thoughts on a pre-harvest marketing plan for the 2025 crop year.

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For more information, contact Zach Brummer, Iowa Farm Bureau, Farmer Education Program Manager (zbrummer@ifbf.org).