Boost your Farm Business: Strategic Grain Marketing Workshops
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There's a lot involved in grain marketing. If you're a grain grower interested in learning more about risk management, strategies to navigate volatile markets or what's driving the price of grain - these workshops are for you!
Across these half-day workshops, experts from Market Check will take attendees through the A-Z of grain marketing and answer any questions you have.
You'll even take home some resources to share your knowledge back on the farm!
Registration is free for growers - book your spot today!
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What will you learn?
Understand Risks and Opportunities
Participants will learn about grain price risk management strategies to use in different scenarios and at different times throughout the marketing year.
State of the Grain Market
Gain a greater understanding of the evolution of the grain supply chain and the current state of the Australian grain market.
Level Up Your Contracts Knowledge
Gain a greater understanding of the different contracts and standards in the Australian grain supply chain.
Explore Market Trends
Learn what drives Australian grain prices and how you can analyse them to make more informed grain marketing decisions.
Using real world examples, participants will:
1. Have a greater understanding of the evolution of the grain supply chain and the current state of the Australian grain market.
2. Be able to demonstrate how local cash prices are derived including where to search for different pricing benchmarks and develop a strong understanding of relative value (basis).
3. Understand what drives Australian grain prices and how they can analyse them to make more informed grain marketing decisions.
4. Understand and effectively select grain price risk management strategies to use in different scenarios and at different times throughout the marketing year.
5. Be able to confidently execute and manage grain marketing tools and strategies.
6. Have a greater understanding of the different contracts and standards in the Australian grain supply chain.
7. Understand risk management fundamentals including benchmarking outcomes of different strategies since 2008.
Take your learnings back to the farm!
Participants also receive:
✓ PowerPoint slide handouts (including note & quiz answer sections)
✓ GrainGrowers Managing Risks in Grain Contracts guide
✓ Australian Grains Industry Review Booklet – 2023 Overview of the Australian Grain Market (PDF, 50 pages)
Learn From Grain Marketing Experts
With 25 years’ experience and a commitment to research and analysis, Market Check has developed an innovative grain marketing philosophy which is the foundation behind our approach to marketing each season. It empowers Australian grain growers with the necessary tools, market insights and solutions to their grain marketing requirements and risk management plans.
About the Presenters
Tom Basnett
Market Check CFO
Tom Basnett
Market Check CFO
Tom has been a key player at Market Check since 2004 and is one of Australia’s foremost grain marketing analysts and advisors. In that time he has been integral to the company’s growth, as his expert strategy development in grain marketing and price risk management has helped build Market Check’s reputation as the preeminent independent grain marketing firm in Australia.
Tom grew up on the family sheep property near Gunning on the Southern Tablelands in NSW, before graduating from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics.
Nick Crundall
Market Check CEO
Nick Crundall
Market Check CEO
With a strong background in trading and risk management, and over a decade of industry experience, Nick is well placed to add value to Market Check clients having worked the majority of his career for companies with a focus on servicing Australian grain growers.
Prior to joining Market Check, Nick worked for CHS Inc – the largest co-operative in the US. Nick’s role was assisting CHS (now CHS Broadbent Pty Ltd here in Australia) to establish a footprint in the Australian grain market while also successfully managing the CHS Pool. Both the pool and the trading book meant Nick was managing well in excess of 750,000mt per season.
Nick has a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from Sydney University and previous career experience with Agfarm and Meat & Livestock Australia.
Ben McClusky
Market Check - Head of Advisory
Ben McClusky
Market Check - Head of Advisory
Ben has extensive experience in the Australian Grain Industry accumulating and marketing all types of grain and related products domestically and internationally.
Ben grew up in Hay in South West NSW and went on to study Agricultural Economics at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. After graduating with a Bachelor Ag Economics majoring in Agribusiness, Ben began his career in the grains industry with Graincorp as a Country Grain Merchant based in Barellan, NSW.
Ben went on to join Riverina (Australia) Pty Ltd as a Grain Trader, first at their Yanco office and then at their Head Office in Brisbane where he looked after grain trading activities in central and northern NSW.
By 2006, Ben was promoted to Assistant Manager in the International Grain Department where he was in charge of coordinating the exports of all Australian grains into Japan and SE Asia for Mitsubishi Corporation and ultimately developed containerised wheat business into SW Asia and North Asia.
Prior to joining Market Check, Ben worked at Mars Food Australia as a Raw Materials Buyer.
Ben’s role at Market Check is to expand the grain agency operations by drawing on his experience in accumulating, trading and marketing all types of grain domestically and internationally. Ben aims to gain more reliable returns in the long-term for Market Check growers.
“We value the education on hedging, risk management and having a plan and the way the Market Check team present is easy to understand and very digestible.”
Tom Hewitt
"The Market Check team have a good handle on the inner workings of the grain markets, and I’ve picked up valuable insights from their strategy seminars and educational videos."
Jerel Fromm