A selection of tools and resources offered by HGCA to assist growers through the process of marketing oilseeds and grains covering:
Contracts
Checklist to help cereal sellers avoid the most common problems associated with cereals sales contracts.
Checklist to help oilseed sellers to maximise market opportunities and to avoid the most common contractual problems.
Pricing
Price Risk Management Checklist
A step-by-step approach to Price Risk Management.
Build and test possible crop pricing strategies using physical sales and grain options.
HGCA Sensitivity Analysis Tool
Identify the true and combined impact of variations in yields and price on profitability and target price levels for unsold crop.
Information resource centre for cereal and oilseeds markets, offering futures and physical prices, import and export data and currency rates on demand in graphic or tabular form.
Sampling and storage
Guidance on taking samples to test for both grain quality and mycotoxins.
Guidance on ensuring safe grain storage to preserve the quality of harvested grain.
End market requirements
Learn more about growing for a specific market:
Growing quality wheat for export
Growing wheat for alcohol/biofuel production
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