August 21, 2003
PRESS RELEASE
Post-Harvest Grain Marketing Session Scheduled
With fall harvest soon approaching, producers are invited to attend one of several post-harvest grain marketing programs to be held throughout the state. The program, entitled "To Store or The sessions will focus on learning how to develop a 2003 crop post-harvest marketing plan, how to take advantage of any storage carry in the market, how to develop an exit strategy in the marketing plan, the role of options in the marketing plan, and looking ahead to a 2004 crop pre-harvest market plan.
Sessions will be held in St. Cloud, Sept. 2; Worthington, Sept. 5; Blue Earth, Sept. 5; Willmar, Sept. 8 (woman’s program); Rochester, Sept. 9; Centerville, WI., Sept. 9; Owatonna, Sept. 10; and St. Peter, Sept. 10. Cost is $25 per person and each session is limited to 40 registrants.
For more details contact the Center for Farm Financial Management at 1-800-234-1111, Ext. 382 or 1-612-625-1964.
A program brochure with registration form can be gotten by going to www.cffm.umn.edu and downloading a copy. Registration can be phoned in to the numbers listed above, you can FAX it to 1-612-625-3105, or e-mail it to cffm@umn.edu.