Customized Farm Marketing and Risk Management Strategies

Markets will rise and fall, and harvests will range from bust to bumper and everything in between. We aim to protect your operation and help you be more profitable regardless of shifting market conditions, weather events, or product yield.

Your situation is different from your neighbor's. It's unique. Unfortunately, many farm marketing practices utilize a generic, one-size-fits-all approach. But successful ag marketing is more than just nailing down prices or buying put options. Across the board, your individual needs require a specific strategy.

The Zaner Ag Hedge team knows that insights don't just come from a computer screen. They come from the field. That’s why we are constantly putting boots in the dirt. Our team strives to fully understand your operation and develop customized strategies to help you succeed no matter what the market or mother nature throws at you.

Responsive Strategy

The first tier of our strategy is a responsive annual strategy. As the market pivots, our strategy shifts to help maximize opportunities and protect against risk. The strategy that’s going to help you succeed not only requires alignment with your precise business model, but it must also pivot as conditions or market backdrops change.

Our team is dedicated to your operation throughout the entire year, monitoring markets and reformulating strategies to leverage the best opportunities as they present. Zaner Ag Hedge’s decades-long success results from our commitment to helping our clients succeed by matching their situations to time-tested, proven, margin and capital-efficient strategies.

Speculative Strategy

The second tier of our strategy is speculative strategies, or what we like to call adding pennies to bushels. Using a defined risk and benefit criterion, we put together strategies to help business owners when prices are low.

For example, we might discover a scenario where, for 4 cents a bushel investment, we aim to collect a 17-cent or 30-cent per bushel return.

No Cost, No Obligation Commission-Based Fee Structure

Once we get to know you and your business, we’ll create a customized strategy. If you feel the strategy isn’t right for you, no cost or obligation is involved. However, if you choose to execute our proposed plan, we charge a commission.