Planting for the 2023 growing season will begin soon and there are new marketing decisions to be made. Pre-harvest marketing, or hedging, is a popular strategy that can help increase the bottom line and reduce price uncertainty. However, many producers may be skittish about hedging, perhaps having heard about a neighbor who lost money or maybe experiencing negative results themselves. There is a lot of information out there when it comes to hedging and it can be contradictory and confusing. 

Cory Walters is an associate professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Agricultural Economics and has co-authored a new article seeking to improve some of the disconnect associated with decisions about hedging.

Read more at https://cap.unl.edu/crops/hedging-your-average-crop-price-using-seasonals.