About GCME - Lyons, NE

GCME is an educational service, not an advisory service.

As progressive as producers have been in adopting new practices in production agriculture most approach the marketing side of their business like their father or grandfather did. To make matters worse many producers read market outlook news articles. A few take a charting service or some "experts" advice predicting the future. I don't care if you use charting, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, private analysis or academic analysis, when it comes to predicting the future there are no "experts". Any attempt to predict the future is an invitation to complete and utter failure.

When we changed our focus and thought process away from ineffective marketing habits effective risk management became the result.

Seventeen years ago GCME began plotting a different course from the traditional way of thinking. With a handful of producers committed to finding practical solutions to risk management problems we began our journey. Several of that handful remain as participants in the GCME educational process today. It is with great pleasure that we have made an important contribution in this effort.

During that seventeen years, several firms trying to predict the future have faded away. That is a very good thing for the U.S. AG industry. It would be helpful if more of those kinds of firms either changed their agenda or faded away. The lesson that seems to be hard for producers to learn is this: Any agricultural information center that focuses a producer's attention on tomorrow's prices, instead of the risk factors on the balance sheet, serves no worthwhile interest except their own.

Ineffective risk management involves the forming of an opinion, by someone, about tomorrow's prices.

Effective risk management involves the management of an unforeseen future using price flexibility and numbers to measure the risk.

Only "you" can decide in which group "you" want to participate. The difference is simply this, before effective risk management producers didn't have a good choice, now they do. The responsibility for your financial future is in your hands, where it should be.

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WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF GCME FLEXIBLE RISK MANAGEMENT?

1. PLANNING your production and costs.

2. KNOWING your basis history.

3. MAINTAINING basis records and graphs.

4. DEVELOPING a plan based on price values and targets.

5. GUARDING early against lower prices with flexibility.

6. SELLING cash products through:
    A. Forward contracts
    B. Basis contracts
    C. Hedge to arrive contracts (managing the basis)
    D. Your local elevator

7. ENHANCING your cash sales price with optional low-cost strategies.

8. RISK reduction of cash price ownership.

9. OVERCOMING emotional roadblocks to good decision-making.

ALL WITHOUT THE ANXIETY AND FAILURES OF TRYING TO PREDICT FUTURE PRICES!

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