Ok need marketing help! Marketing in a shitty delivery system!

[furrowtickler]

You can not sell to anything to a grain co here now without a contract

[BFW]

I get it furrow. It really does give the grain cos or the packers or whoever all the power though. If things are to change then we as producers need to change s well

[SASKFARMER3]

No shit but I'm looking for a sewers to this problem.

[fjlip]

It's a buyers market, only when supply is short will farmers have the advantage. Grain buyer told me, too bad for us but it's their turn to make a buck or millions.

[SASKFARMER3]

No shit but I'm looking for a solutions to this problem.

[TASFarms]

Mr Farmer should be paid 2 to 5 % per month after the the delivery date. That is done everywhere else in business so why can't it be applied here

[farmaholic]

Spot pricing with immediate delivery, whats that?

Lack of demand or demand throttled by marketing and logistics dysfunction? Chicken or egg? Cause and effect....

[BFW]

don't sign their contracts unless there is a non performance penalty

[farmaholic]

WTF....non performance penalty... they have 90 day extension clauses.....

[hobbyfrmr]

Freewheat, good thinking. A person has to be agile. The big, efficient, high volume system belongs to that farm management style.
Differentiate.
Historically, the hog market has had its ups and downs, bankruptcies etc . So, you may want to find an acconts recievable insurance company that may handle your deliveries. market Power Assurance, Atradius, Euler Hermes, or EDC.
The cash value of your deliveries may not be "big" enough for some of these companies to cover with A/R insurance , so you may want to make some type a strategic alignment with FarmLead who qualifies their buyers.

[farmaholic]

Now that was worth something...

Unfortunately there is still a lot of grain that needs the "conventional" system.

[hobbyfrmr]

I am just trying to provide some insight. Everybody has their own style of farming. I dont look at things as good or bad. I look at the management style and then try to figure out what works and does not work.
My father in law had some very poor light land. I recall him saying that the majority of his revenue would walk off the farm on 4 legs.