Enhance Contracts
Take advantage of market opportunities. Capture premium prices.
Take advantage of the market with Enhance contracts.
Enhance contracts are a great option if you are bullish, like to have control over pricing, and want to take a more hands-on approach to your sales. These contracts also work great in conjunction with other pricing solutions to help you diversify your grain marketing plan. Take advantage of market opportunities to seek premium prices for your grain with Enhance contracts.
Compare Enhance Contracts
Premium Offer
Get a premium price for your grain. Sell new or old grain now for an enhanced cash price. In exchange, make a Contingent Offer to sell the same number of bushels for deferred delivery at an established price.
- Sell grain today for an enhanced cash price.
- Agree to a Contingent Offer for like quantity if the futures price is at or above a target price on an established pricing date.
- Deliver your additional bushels if the market is at or above your Contingent Offer.
- You keep your premium, even if the Contingent Offer isn’t triggered.
Use if your market bias is:
- Bear
Focal Point
Sell now. Participate in potential upside market movement. Use this contract when you need to sell — or already sold — grain, but you aren’t happy with today’s price. Deliver grain now, express your bias, and experience penny for penny price participation during the pricing period.
- Establish an initial price on a selected futures reference month.
- Automatically re-enter the market if conditions change — with the potential to enhance the contract price.
- Set your Final Focal Point Price any time before the final pricing deadline.
Use if your market bias is:
- Bull
Fertilizer Focal
A fertilizer focal contract allows you to manage increasingly volatile fertilizer price risk using a urea futures reference price in conjunction with a corn contract.
- Manage fertilizer price risk during a time of record costs.
- Express bullish or bearish fertilizer price bias based on NOLA urea markets.
- Mitigate risk of rising futures prices even if you have not locked in the physical product or price yet.
Use if your market bias is:
- Bull
- Bear
- Neutral
Minimum Price Long Call / Call Spread
Minimum Price Long Calls or Call Spreads can be simple ways to participate in the market while maintaining a guaranteed minimum futures price - also known as a floor. Use these when you have a bullish market bias and want to try to add value to current contracts.
- Add value to current contracts in a bullish market while maintaining a minimum price.
- Protect current prices and maintain upside potential.
Use if your market bias is:
- Bull
Start building your grain marketing plan.
Hard work and preparation are the keys to a prosperous farm. Make sure you have a grain marketing plan that works just as hard as you do.
