Managing for Profit

A return to ‘old-style’ crop marketing

Chad Hart, crop markets specialist with Iowa State University, foresees a more traditional grain pricing pattern over the next few years, with market lows at harvest and market highs in the spring.

“That more traditional pricing pattern that we used to experience—say 5, 6, 7 years ago—before the biofuel boom took us to the record high prices and before the drought helped continue those record high prices,” Hart says.

Which means, Hart says, a return to what he calls “old-style” crop marketing.

AUDIO: Chad Hart