Do you spend six months of the year shopping around for the best price on seed, fertilizer, and chemicals? Are you one to drive up to the grain probe and tell the operator you are selling? What are futures and options? Can you actually make money by purchasing crop insurance? What does weather have to do with the price you receive for your crop? If this sounds like you, or you have asked these questions, then the exciting in-depth Professional Marketer Program is your answer.
The Professional Marketer Program features 48 hours of intensive market training from the top marketing consultants in the US as well as the best researchers from The Ohio State University. Topics that will be covered in the Professional Marketer include: budgets/breakevens, futures contract seasonality, futures/options and basis, commodity pricing strategies, market technical analysis, crop insurance, livestock marketing, contracts, weather effect on markets, and the impact of ethanol on grain markets. In addition to the lectures there will be several hands on activities that will guide you through the process of developing a personal marketing plan.
The program consists of three two-day sessions held on January 31st and February 1st, February 11th and 13th, and February 28th and 29th. Each day will run from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at the Fayette County Agriculture Service Center in Wilmington, Ohio. The cost of the program is $150 per participant, and includes a notebook of marketing factsheets and lecture handouts. Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the program by local businesses. Registrations are now being accepted. For details about the course and/or a registration form, contact the Clinton County Extension office at 937-382.0901 or go online at clinton.osu.edu and print off the information and registration form.