While grain markets may get cloudy at times, you’ll find that working with The Equity for grain marketing is always clear. We get to know your objectives, and then we develop plans with you, spending the time it takes to help you understand the underlying risk.
Our knowledge comes from our own experience on the farm, and we would never recommend a strategy that we wouldn’t use on our own operations. We’ll tell you the straight story and help you get a better price for your grain at a comfortable risk level for you.
Contact one of our merchandisers to find out how we can help you get more for your grain.
Our grain elevators are located in Effingham, Horace and Strasburg, Illinois. Effingham and Horace are on mainline railroads, the CN and the CSX. This gives them rail access to many grain markets, including processors, export terminals and feed manufacturers.
We keep wait times at a minimum when you need to dump grain, with more than 50,000 bushels-per-hour dumping capacity. Our Effingham location offers a fleet of semi-trucks to pick grain up from your farm, whether from the bin or from the field during harvest. This service allows you to concentrate on farming, not hauling grain to town.
As a state licensed grain warehouse, we offer several cash grain marketing options including Forward Pricing, Storage and Price Later. We also settle up quickly and get you paid when you need it.
The Equity is a diversified cooperative, and our knowledge of numerous interconnected markets helps us better understand what’s going on with grains.
For example, our expertise in livestock operations and feed puts us in a unique position to understand the economics of an industry that consumes a large share of the corn in the U.S., ultimately influencing corn prices.
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Updates will include information such as USDA report information, hours of operation — especially during harvest, and GO EDGE® updates.
When it’s time to sell your grain, we offer a number of options for contracting and cash sales.
Before we do anything, however, we’ll visit with you to understand factors that are important to you and your operation. How do you use risk management? Do you have on-farm storage? What’s your crop insurance coverage, and how comfortable are you with risk?
Once we have a good understanding, we’ll work with you to determine which tools best fit your operation. Then we utilize our GO EDGE Platform to custom build your marketing plan.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a sales price above the current futures value, and it provides the potential to double the contracted bushels if futures prices are above a specified price when the contract expires. This is on a guaranteed quantity with no knock-out potential.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a cash price in a nearby delivery period at a premium in return for a firm offer to sell grain in a deferred period.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a futures price and basis in a firm delivery window.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a futures-only price, with basis to be established at a later date.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a basis in a firm delivery window.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a minimum price while offering the flexibility to capture limited upside opportunity if the market improves.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a minimum price while offering the flexibility to capture unlimited upside opportunity if the market improves.
A contract to sell grain that establishes a price in a window when historical seasonal price tendencies are typically the highest.
My Account is a live customer portal providing The Equity’s customers access to real-time account management including the ability to view live scale tickets, cash bids, settlement details, and electronically sign grain contracts.
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GO EDGE is an interactive, customizable, risk management tool designed to help customers with dynamic decision making and contract analysis.
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