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Now you can benefit from the risk management tools that Cargill, Cargill Direct and
other leaders in the food industry are using to protect assets and grow equity.
Built on over 140 years of experience and expertise, Cargill has developed the most advanced
and flexible risk management tools available in the marketplace. Now, as an industry leader,
you can take advantage of this opportunity. We’ll collaborate with you and help you leverage
your strengths by making new resources available for your risk manager to take your
commodity price risk management to a whole new level.
Cargill brings local expertise and business knowledge, and works with our Cargill Risk
Management Business Unit and our wholly-owned commodity trading advisor, Cargill Direct
to help you meet your risk management needs. As you'd expect from a partner with global
resources, the benefits are substantial.
· Customization to your hedging objectives
· Diversification of your hedging strategy
· Increased flexibility
· Structures available at zero cost
· Working-capital advantages
· Expert-directed market advice
Portfolio Offerings
Cargill Commodity Services, Inc., is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and Introducing
Broker that does business under the trade name Cargill Direct.
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Cargill Direct |
Cargill Counter |
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ADVISE:
Receive risk
management insight
and advice for buying ingredients and hedging livestock.
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MANAGE:
Contract with an expert team to directly manage and execute the ingredient positions
to your plan.
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STRUCTURE:
This offering gives you the potential to benefit
from lower prices in
the future in today’s
ingredient price.
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SECURE
Includes the construction of a local program to
buy grain from producers using
Cargill risk management tools. |
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Cargill Direct Available Tools |
Cargill Counter Available Tools |
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Advise Classic: Where we offer the Key
Ingredients and Livestock Market Insight
Newsletter.
Advise Business: Includes the Key
Ingredients Market Insight Newsletter plus
customized advice and recommendations.
Manage: This package includes everything
in the Advise Business offering with the
addition of authority being granted to Cargill
Direct’s experts to manage and execute
your key ingredient position.
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Hedging products: Cargill has a global team
that structures and implements over-thecounter
risk management products for institutional hedging customers worldwide. From strategic locations across the globe, we offer pricing mechanisms to help these customers diversify their exposures across all traded agricultural commodities.
Producer Tools: Cargill has structured grain
marketing tools, that are deployed to create
win – win scenarios for grain purchases.
These can be selectively licensed to qualified
feeders and other end-users who purchase
grain directly from farmers. These tools
provide a unique competitive advantage.
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Benefits of Cargill Direct and Cargill Counter
Assurance and Flexibility
· Specify the exact quantity and contract length to fit your needs
· Avoid the frustration and time of watching daily market fluctuations
· Define your hedge cost up-front
Simple and Straightforward
· Gain the peace of mind that comes with knowing your feed cost is protected
· Better predict cash flows, breakevens, and financial results
· Monthly U.S. and Global Weekly market analysis
Access to Cargill Risk Management expertise
· Use Cargill’s expertise and global market access to manage your price risk
· Hedge results can be financially settled or the associated futures positions
· exchanged for the hedging products.
· Access to the expertise of global Staff of economists, agronomists, and risk
· managers who access global markets around the clock.
· Access to the latest hedging tools and strategies to diversify your hedging
· Weather Department
· Daily technical analysis
Personal consultations
· Access to our consultants
· Personal touch
Knowledge at your fingertips
· Cargill Direct uses its expertise to establish your corn and meal ingredient futures
· levels. Associated futures positions can be exchanged with your chosen suppliers.
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