COMMERCIAL HEDGERS

Enterprise Risk Doesn't Fit in a Spreadsheet

Multi-commodity hedging, margin optimization, and institutional-grade execution for ethanol plants, feed manufacturers, processors, and agribusiness operations that can't afford unmanaged exposure.

When Your Inputs and Outputs Are Both Moving, Everything Is Exposure

An ethanol plant buying corn and selling DDGs and ethanol. A feed manufacturer sourcing soybean meal while quoting fixed-price contracts to livestock operations. A crusher managing the spread between beans, oil, and meal. Your risk isn’t one-dimensional — it’s a matrix of correlated positions that shift every session.

The problem isn’t that hedging tools don’t exist. In our experience some brokerages may treat commercial accounts like oversized versions of individual producers. You get the same platform, the same reporting, and the same broker — just with bigger position limits. That doesn’t work when your CFO needs P&L attribution by commodity, your risk manager needs real-time exposure reporting, and your procurement team needs to execute across multiple markets simultaneously.

Challenges We Solve

The Exposure Your Current Setup Isn't Covering

Commercial operations lose margin in the gaps — between what their hedging program covers and what actually happens in the market

Price Volatility

“A 40-cent move in corn costs us six figures before we can adjust. We need faster tools and better intel.”

Protecting Margins

“Our crush spread is thin enough — we can’t absorb basis drift, execution slippage, and margin surprises on top of it.”

Market Timing

“We have the mandate to hedge — we need the intelligence to time it better and the execution to act when we decide.”

Basis Risk

“We’re hedging the flat price but our basis exposure is effectively unmanaged. That’s a leak we can’t ignore.”

Your Hedging Program Deserves a Brokerage That Matches It

Let's talk about what a commercial-grade partnership looks like — from execution and reporting to analytics and dedicated support

Brokerage Services

Agricultural Expertise at Institutional Scale

There’s a gap in the market. Institutional brokers understand scale but don’t understand agriculture. Agricultural brokers understand the commodities but can’t handle the complexity of a multi-commodity hedging program with real reporting requirements.

We sit in that gap. Our team comes from agricultural markets — we understand crush margins, ethanol economics, feed cost structures, and seasonal procurement cycles. But we also understand what a CFO expects from a brokerage relationship: clean reporting, transparent execution, regulatory compliance, and a team that responds like your business depends on it. Because it does.

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FAQs

What types of commercial operations do you work with?

We serve ethanol and biofuel plants, feed manufacturers, soybean crushers and oilseed processors, flour mills, food-grade ingredient suppliers, cooperatives, and other agribusiness operations with ongoing commodity exposure. If your business buys or sells agricultural commodities as part of its core operations, we’re built for you.

Can you support multi-commodity hedging programs?

Yes — that’s our strength with commercial accounts. We support hedging across grains, oilseeds, livestock, energy, and softs. For operations managing correlated exposure — like an ethanol plant hedging corn inputs, natural gas costs, and ethanol output simultaneously — we help build integrated strategies that account for cross-commodity relationships rather than hedging each product in isolation.

What kind of reporting do you provide?

We provide real-time position reporting, daily mark-to-market statements, and periodic hedge performance summaries. For operations that need board-level reporting, we can structure reports around P&L attribution by commodity, hedge effectiveness metrics, and exposure analysis. Our goal is to give your finance and risk teams the data they need without requiring manual reconciliation.

How do you differ from an institutional broker?

Institutional brokers are built for financial markets — metals, energy indices, interest rates. They understand scale but not agriculture. We bring institutional-grade execution and reporting combined with deep agricultural market expertise. When your broker understands crush economics, ethanol blending margins, and seasonal procurement cycles, the quality of the conversation — and the hedging strategy — is fundamentally different.

What does onboarding look like for a commercial account?

We start with a risk review — understanding your physical positions, your current hedging program, and where the gaps are. From there, we handle account setup and any position transfers from your existing broker. We also onboard your team onto our platform and analytics tools. Most commercial accounts are fully operational within one to two weeks, with no disruption to existing hedges.

OUR TECHNOLOGY

Tools Built for Commercial Operations

Live Markets & Execution

Trading Platform

Real-time quotes, charts, and direct order execution. See the markets that matter to your operation — no clutter, no complexity.

AI-Powered Market Data

Numbers.ag

Decode COT data, seasonal trends, and market signals with AI analytics that used to be reserved for institutional desks.

Local Basis Intelligence

Grain Basis

Track and compare basis levels at elevators near you. Make selling decisions based on real local data, not guesswork.