Released: February 13, 2008

Risk-Assessed Grains Marketing Workshops Set for Three Kansas Locations

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University is hosting Risk-Assessed Marketing of Grains workshops in three locations around the state in late February and early March.

The K-State instructors for the workshops are Art Barnaby, K-State Research and Extension farm management specialist; Dan O’Brien, Extension agricultural economist for northwest Kansas; and Mike Woolverton, Extension grain marketing specialist.

Each workshop begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. and the program at 8:45 a.m. The workshop locations and contacts for further information are:

• Feb. 26 – McPherson – Cedars Conference Center, 1021 Cedars Drive – 620-241-1523 or dladd@ksu.edu.

• Feb. 27 – Colwich – Andale Coop Office, 143 N. Colorado – 316-796-1314 or jconard@afcoop.com.

• March 4 – Dighton – Lane County Fairgrounds – 800-460-9079.

Attendees’ registering in advance by calling or e-mailing the location that is most convenient for them will help ensure adequate materials and lunches are on-hand.

Topics to be covered at each workshop include: 1) Introduction to Marketing Basis, Including Forward Contracts, Options and Futures; 2) Ethanol Production and the Grain Markets; 3) Risk-Assessed Marketing (RAM) Combines Marketing Tools, Commodity Program Payments, and Crop Insurance; 4) Introduction to a Case Farm; 5) Evaluating CAT, MPCI-APH, CRC, RA, GRP, GRIP, and Private Hail Insurance Alternatives for the Case Farm; and 5) Evaluating Price Risk Management Strategies for the Case Farm.

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K-State Research and Extension is a short name for the Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, a program designed to generate and distribute useful knowledge for the well-being of Kansans. Supported by county, state, federal and private funds, the program has county Extension offices, experiment fields, area Extension offices and regional research centers statewide. Its headquarters is on the K-State campus, Manhattan.

Story by:
Mary Lou Peter-Blecha
mlpeter@oznet.ksu.edu
K-State Research& Extension News