Crop Margin Management Seminar - Bloomington, IL
With major improvements and additional offerings of the Federal Crop Insurance program, producers need to integrate their physical sales and exchange traded instruments to leverage their crop insurance in order to protect profits and maximize their bottom line. CIH's experts will teach you how to seamlessly blend these various risk management tools in our upcoming seminar.
August 4 - 5, 2026
Location Bloomington, IL
$550
Basic to Intermediate
ENROLLCrop Margin Management Seminar – Bloomington, IL
With MPCI integration – learn how to combine crop insurance with exchange traded tools to maximize your bottom line.
Day 1 Topics Covered
- Welcome and Introductions
- Introduction to the Futures Market and Profit Margin Management:
- Introduction to Price Risk Management:
- Working Lunch
- Introduction to Options:
- Group Exercise:
- Adjourn
Identifying forward profit margins using the futures market as a price discovery tool with a review of the futures market and industry.
Price risk versus basis risk, contracting choices: MPCI, cash market, futures market.
Definitions, contract specifications, components of premium, terminology, expiration versus offset and assignment/exercise, as well as a discussion of volatility.
Using futures and a basic option strategy, teams will manage a historical profit margin by initiating and directing coverage adjustments over the course of the simulation.
Day 2 Topics Covered
- Coffee & Continental Breakfast – Review previous day with Q&A
- Core Strategies:
- MPCI Advanced Concepts & Hedge Policy:
- Price Management Simulation:
- Lunch
- Closing Remarks
Review of basic futures and options positions typically used by crop producers to protect the risk of both lower and higher prices, as well as discussion of option margining.
Discussion of putting it all together to leverage crop insurance with exchange-traded tools. Examples include protecting gaps in coverage, limiting costs of coverage, and indemnity protection. We conclude with a discussion on creating a Margin Management policy to keep producers on track with marketing goals.
Integrated online simulation incorporating both futures and options strategies to manage the risk of a crop producer’s profit margin through a historical market.
Seminar Details
August 4
8:30am – 4:00pm
August 5
8:30am – 2:00pm
Location
1625 Commerce Parkway, Bloomington, IL 61704
Registration fee includes continental breakfasts, lunches, an optional dinner following Day 1, and all seminar materials. For more information or enroll by phone, please call 312.596.7755.
NASBA Continuing Education Credits
CPE Credits: 12
Commodity & Ingredient Hedging, LLC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org.
Learning Objective
Participants will be introduced to the mechanics of the futures and options markets and the terminology related to the futures industry. Participants will also learn how to utilize risk management strategies to manage commodity price risk.
Prerequisites
None
Delivery Method
Live
