Risk is inherent in the farming industry, but Farms.com Risk Management and Midwest Strategic Investments, Inc. says it has the infrastructure to lessen that risk, helping clients spread, transfer and limit risk. The alliance specializes in risk management for hogs, cattle, soybeans and corn among other crops.
Farms.com Risk Management and Midwest Strategic Investments, Inc. (MSI) announce their strategic alliance to provide full service risk management marketing and hedging strategies along with trade executions to protect risk exposure to producers. Farms.com Risk Management works as an adviser to producers, farmers and agribusinesses across North America in the marketing of crops and hogs and during the purchase of feed inputs. Midwest Strategic Investments, Inc. (MSI) is a full service commodity brokerage firm specializing in agricultural risk management and marketing strategies.
“The goal of the alliance is to focus on risk management for hogs, cattle, soybeans, corn and other crops,” says Jim Nemitz, President of MSI. “We provide risk management and one-on-one consultation advice to individual producers, agribusinesses and corporations throughout North America.”
“Our emphasis is on quality and value-added services, with ŒSimple Answers and Smart Solutions,” says Victor Aideyan, Sr. Risk Management Consultant with Farms.com Risk Management. “We are committed to being a major leader in this area. We have built strong alliances with numerous companies to provide our customers with the widest range of services available.”
The alliance will provide strategic services and products such as: one-on-one consulting for hogs, crops, and cattle as well as input purchasing and execution of futures and options at a low commission rate. In addition, customers will receive weekly e-newsletters, timely risk management recommendations, on-line tools, analysis of USDA Hog and Crop Reports, hog packer contract analysis, marketing, hedging and cost of production preparation and execution, low cost hog and crop service programs, in-house measurement tools and market research.
“With our extensive knowledge and over 90 years combined experience in marketing, price risk management and trading, this alliance will provide a better marketing solution at a reasonable cost for all agribusinesses and producers across North America,” states Aideyan.
Farms.com Risk Management currently provides price risk services for hog and grain commodities valued at $350 million. Farms.com Risk Management is a division of Farms.com Ltd., a leading provider of innovative information products and services, with software solutions for the global agriculture and food industries. Farms.com can be accessed through its internationally recognized agriculture information portal, which has business services and resources for 20,000-plus agribusiness professionals and livestock and crop producers who use it each day for business services and resources. In addition to Farms.com Risk Management, the Farms.com family includes AgCareers.com — the leading human resources website for the agriculture and food industry; and PigCHAMP, Inc. — the leading swine industry software and knowledge management company. Farms.com operates across North America with offices in Ames, Iowa; Clinton, North Carolina; Fresno, California; and Guelph and London, Ontario, Canada.
Midwest Strategic Investments, Inc. is a full-service commodity brokerage firm specializing in agricultural risk management and marketing strategies. MSI’s main objective is to help clients spread, transfer, and limit risk from the cash markets and transfer it to the futures and options markets. MSI brokers have a strong commitment to communicating directly and frequently with producers on an individual basis to achieve their specific risk management goals.