The age-old problem is how to decide when to price your grain futures for cash sales.
The futures price is very volatile, and some years, very unpredictable. The decision of when and at what price to lock-in futures, whether as an HTA, a forward contract, or hedge position, requires the same decisiveness - and sometimes nerves of steel.
When in doubt, you cannot chicken out. It is OK not to price futures, but not pricing futures should be an intentional decision rather than a non-decision to wait another day.
This is a decision-making tool we have always recommended and committed ourselves to follow more disciplined this year than ever before: