$ Pricing Management. $ Aims of Pricing Management Module  Improve your skills for developing and implementing marketing plans  Discuss the characteristics.

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$ Pricing Management

$ Aims of Pricing Management Module  Improve your skills for developing and implementing marketing plans  Discuss the characteristics of corn and soybean markets  Review selected pricing tools  Consider an example marketing plan

$ What is a Marketing Plan?  Dictionary defines marketing as: –Process of selling or purchasing in a market  Dictionary defines a plan as: –A method for achieving an end –Formulation of a plan of action

$ Plans  Consequences of strategic plan should be DRIVE: –Provide Direction –Reasonable (practical, obtainable) –Inspiring, challenging –Easy to Visualize, able to measure –Eventual (time frame for achieving goals)  Consequences of tactical plan should be SMART: –Specific –Measurable –Attainable –Rewarding –Timed

$ What’s The Time Frame For Your Marketing Plan  You can price after harvest if you are willing to store  You can price new crop corn and soybeans today for sale at harvest in 2002 … or 2003  Suggests a planning horizon from of at least 18 months prior to harvest to 6 months post harvest

$ Key Features of Plan  Goals … that reflect the SMART criteria  Written plan that lays out a general strategy and proposed actions when faced with particular opportunities and risks  Make decisions on logic, not emotion  Deals with who, when, how, how much, and follow-up

$ Key Questions About Your Goals  How much risk are you willing to bear?  Based upon your net worth / equity in the farm business  Comfort zone  How much risk are you willing to take to capitalize on potential opportunities?  How do you feel about using your equity vs. using risk reducing tools to deal with risk?

$ Structuring Your Plan  Define your goals  Quantify the financial exposure you are willing to assume  Describe the size of the crop that will be available for you to market:  Most likely potential bushels  Yield / Product Quality risk faced  Potential role of crop insurance to backstop pre-harvest pricing

$ Structuring Your Plan (continued)  Break the time period over which you can price into several periods  Prior to March 15  Late spring / early summer  Harvest  Jan-March  Calculate targets for each period:  Bushels to sell  Target price  Describe how you will change your targets given opportunities and risks that may arise

$ What Kind of Market Do You Face?  Degree of Volatility  Patterns  New Crop o Seasonal o Across years  Old Crop o Seasonal o Across years

$ There are patterns a disciplined approach can build upon  On the average, across the last 25 years, pre- harvest priced corn & soybeans in late spring - early summer for did better than harvest.  The late spring - early summer vs. harvest price difference has varied from year to year and is sensitive to perceived ending stock position.  There is potential gain but additional risk is incurred to go after the gain.

$ Dec 2000 Corn Contract

$ “If you think you can out guess the commodity futures market -- you are nuts!” Quote from a marketing consultant

$ Some Evidence: Two Year Performance of Selected Cash-Only Market Advisors  Pro-Farmer  Doane  Freese-Notis  USDA avg. price received  Ag Profit  Stewart-Peterson  Brock Associates  Agri-Visor $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $331.20

$ What’s Possible?

$ Feasibility of Pricing Goals Pricing goal Your Skill in the Summarizing Market Information Mkt is Efficient Mkt is Inefficient Only when big shocks occur Nearly always Price enhancemen t Not feasible Sometimes feasibleFeasible Risk controlFeasible

$ Set Price and Timing Goals  Use your “costs of production” developed in the financial section in setting Revenue Requirement goals: –Total Economic Costs –Maintain Net worth –Cash Flow Requirements  Equity available to risk  Drive how much you can “afford to gamble”

$ “Break Even Prices Needed” Make Sure You Have These Values

$ Pre-March 15 prices: Dec CBOT $2.50/bu Harvest $0.40/bu =Cash forward $2.10/bu Price $1.85 $2.04 $2.19 $2.32 $2.45 $2.59 $2.75 $2.95 $3.24 Probability that the realized CBOT corn futures price at maturity will be less than this price 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

$ Pre-March 15 prices: Nov CBOT $4.85/bu Harvest $0.40/bu =Cash forward $4.45/bu Price $3.80 $4.11 $4.35 $4.56 $4.77 $4.99 $5.24 $5.54 $6.00 Probability that the realized CBOT soy futures price at maturity will be less than this price 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

$ Set Price and Timing Goals  Look at historical patterns to assess the current situation for setting both price and time targets and triggers  Use commodity Supply-Demand Balance Sheets in combination with futures and options  Use charts -- particularly for setting short term and daily price targets

$ What “Tools” Can I Use to Provide Information In Setting Pricing Targets:  Price Potential o Near term o Longer term  Risk and Opportunity  Use of price history

$ How Much do I have to sell? Describe how much you will have to market?  Planned acres  Yield probability charts  Prevented planting risk  Harvest quality risk

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$ Marketing Alternatives  Spot Sales  Cash Forward Contract  Short Hedge  Basis Contract  Minimum Price Contract  Options on futures contact

$ Marketing Alternatives  Hedge-to-Arrive  Max-Min  Loan and LDP’s

$ Risk Management Game We only consider: –Spot (cash) sales –Cash forward contracts –LDP’s

$ Example Marketing Plan:  Lets apply what we have discussed to developing an example marketing plan for the medium debt farm  Discuss how the plan might might vary with other debt structures

$  Set your preliminary targets for each period: o Price triggers o Time triggers o Is scaling up warranted?  How will the plan change in response to particular (e.g., scaling up): o Opportunities o Risk  Are you likely to need to restructure debt given price prospects? Marketing plan worksheet

$ Example Marketing Plan for Medium Debt Farm Timing for corn and soybeans - Price 20% by March 15 - Price 40% by June/July - Price 80% by Harvest If prices are at least 15 cents over the loan rate Price Goals for corn and soybeans -March and beyond - 40% if price will Maintain Net Worth - 60% if price is above Total Economic Costs

$ Example Marketing Plan for Medium Debt Farm Price Goals for corn and soybeans Con’t - July - 30% if price reaches top 40% of price dist., $ % if price reaches top 30% of price dist., $ % if price reaches top 20% of price dist., $ only 10-15% chance of pricing soybeans over loan rate, price 60% if the 5-10% chance of $5.70 occurs - Could use MPC to go 80% in July if net price 15 cents over loan

$ Example Marketing Plan for Medium Debt Farm Price Goals for corn and soybeans Con’t - At harvest - Take LDP on the 80% priced - Store up 20% if forward contract higher than storage costs to March - 15% under a forward contract, take LDP - 5% wait to price - Use loan on unpriced stored crop - March Price remainder

$ Who is responsible for developing a Marketing Plan and implementing it? You are! ( But maybe your spouse could do a better job!)

$  Write it down.  Tell someone else your plan (spouse, business partner).  Post your plan (in your home or office) to remind you to follow it.  Stick with your plan.

$ The success of your operation depends on YOU! Take charge, seek assistance, and set a plan you can live with.

$ END