Cathy Ekstrand
Cathy Ekstrand is a senior market advisor with Total Farm Marketing by Stewart-Peterson. During her 17-year tenure, Ekstrand has offered the type of farm marketing service and advice that are essential to a long-term advisor/client relationship. She combines that advice with a warm, personal, and firm touch to help her clients pull the trigger on decisions that matter to their success. If you have questions, you can reach Ekstrand at cekstrand@s-pelmwood.com.
Markets will continue to challenge in the New Year
If you are making sales for next year's crops now, consider using July bull call spreads for weather risk into summer months.
The market is telling you it needs the grain now
As producers you have a greater risk management concern. Be on top of your sales. The market is telling you it needs the grain now.
Stick to your marketing plan and be on the lookout
Stick with your plan of incremental sales and keep in mind your overall price average.
Keep your marketing plan in check
If you stick to a plan, marketing is less of a crap shoot and more of a business decision.
A marketing year to remember
All eyes will be on weather here in the States.
Volatility! Volatility!
Anything else we can throw at these markets? It’s a lot for traders to digest.