Today’s farmers are faced with more and more decisions each and everyday. Having an unbiased consultant whose only interest is in your success allows growers to make more confident and better decisions. It also helps with what is referred to as “decision fatigue”. Where growers are faced with so many decisions that they finally chose something to just to get it over with vs is it the right decision.
Grain marketing
We explain what factors are influencing prices. What direction we believe markets are heading. As well provide recommendations on when and why to sell.
Unbiased
Unbiased information, no broker fees, always with best interest of the farmer
Who is the TrendMax group?
Who are we?
Crop planning
Many growers chose which crops to grow because of current pricing. Deciding which crops to grow next year is a key decision that needs to be made using all factors including insurance options, cash flow, bin space etc.
Strategy
Working with you one on one to help strategize a plan to maximize profit on your farm based on your cash flow and bin space needs.
Reasonable Fees
We don’t take commissions or broker fees. An annual fee of $1.50/acre with a minimum $4,000 and maximum $10,000.
Decision Fatigue?
Growers are faced with too many decisions from too many sources. Growers are facing 1 of 2 issues. #1 is decision fatigue where they are overwhelmed by all the decisions that need to be made and / or #2 they don’t know who to trust? Is this buyer telling to me to sell because it’s in their best interest or mine? These are all real problems. One of the solutions is to have an unbiased consultant whose best interest is you. You can bounce questions, ideas, thoughts and get honest feedback.
Why to focus on the 30,000' view?
We believe that we are a FILTER for all of the information that occurs on a daily basis. Taking this information and summarizing it so that you understand what is important today, tomorrow and the future. Looking at the big picture and not focusing on the daily news is the best plan for long term success. We explain what factors are influencing prices. What direction we believe markets are heading. As well provide recommendations on when and why to sell. Ultimately allowing you to market with more confidence.
SPREADSHEET MARKETING
What’s included:
- Fully understand your fixed costs
- Ability to benchmark fixed costs vs other top growers
- Compare insurance programs as well as different coverage levels
- Prior to seeding having a solid cropping plan based on your yield data, fixed costs and our market price forecasts. This prevents seeding a crop that could turn out to be a financial disaster as well gives best opportunity to plant the crops with the most potential on your farm
- Harvest – ability to market crops based on profitability and not emotion.