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Maximize your Bottom Line

Mar 01, 2026

Grain Marketing Services

Today’s commodity markets present unique challenges. Rising input costs, global uncertainty, and increased volatility create more risk—but also more opportunity for producers with a proactive marketing strategy. Access to timely information and trusted guidance is essential for making sound decisions, managing risk, and protecting your operation’s profitability. Working with your local cooperative grain team ensures you have the tools, market insight, and support needed to navigate changing conditions with confidence.

Premier Cooperative offers a range of grain contracting options to help manage risk and capture market opportunities. From forward contracts to target offers and other flexible pricing tools, our team can help develop a customized marketing plan tailored to your operation, storage, cash flow, and long-term goals. We monitor markets alongside you to identify opportunities that fit your strategy.

Our Text Market Updates service is also improving, providing more reliable and consistent price alerts and market information directly to your phone—helping you stay informed, react quickly, and make timely marketing decisions.

Contact your local Premier Cooperative grain team today to start building a marketing plan that works for you. .

Bridgette Young
Grain Lead

Mar 31, 2026

After nearly a decade in this role, it is not often a question of “if” herds are overcrowding, but more so “how much”? There are a ton of factors to consider when deciding to keep a cow around. Is she carrying a black calf? Is there enough feed inventory on hand to feed the herd and have the desired carryover? What might the income per stall look like at 140% overcrowding versus 125%? The challenge is that no two dairies have the same answer.

Mar 31, 2026

As spring inches closer, it gets more tempting each day to fire up the tractor and get in the field. However, deciding when to plant is one of the first (of many) management decisions that will impact your crop’s performance this season. Here are six tips to help you decide the right time to put your corn and soybean seeds in the ground.

Mar 31, 2026

In case you skipped Matt’s article to get to your favorite section of the newsletter, Farmers Union Cooperative of Ossian, IA will be merging into Premier Cooperative on August 1st. I’ve been there a couple of times, and I’m really impressed with their staff, facilities and rolling stock. Their energy division is rock solid, and I am very excited to begin working with them.