March 28, 2024

Women marketing grain course starting June 2

AMES — A four-session course will be offered starting June 2 to assist women in developing a plan for marketing corn and soybeans.

Women Marketing Grain will be on Thursdays, June 2-23 at the DMACC Hunziker Center in Ames. With unpredictable crop prices and tight margins, marketing can make the difference in the profitability of corn and soybean production. How well farmers get paid for a year’s worth of work can be wrapped up in just a few marketing decisions.

“Women Marketing Grain empowers women by offering a valuable set of business-based workshops. The program helps participants learn ways to make a better human resource management decisions,” according to Madeline Schultz, ISU Extension and Outreach Women in Agriculture Program Manager.

In this course, women will learn how to manage price risk using tools like forward contracts, futures and options contracts, alternative marketing contracts, and crop insurance. Participants will work in a computer lab to access online decision tools and to develop a marketing plan. Women will learn market strategies and how to stay on track for long-term marketing success.

Classes are 6 to 9 p.m. with a free meal served at 5:30 p.m. Registration for each program is $75 with a deadline of May 26.

To register, visit www.aep.iastate.edu/womeninag/2016/ames.html.