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Are you a risk calculator or risk avoider? In this article, part of DTN's ongoing Marketing Primer series, we look at the importance of understanding your attitude toward risk in building your marketing plan. (DTN photo illustration by Nick Scalise)

Marketing Primer - 1 Consider Your Marketing Risk Style: Are You a Daredevil? 1/31 6:26AM
Risk tolerance not only influences when you price your production, but which tools will be most comfortable to you.

Success in marketing relies on knowledge, time spent in the office and knowing how your personality affects your choice of strategies. (DTN photo by Russ Quinn)

Assess Your Marketing Proclivities Assessment Tool Helps Farmers Make Disciplined Marketing Decisions 2/3 6:51AM
Would you hire yourself to market your production? Consider using an assessment tool to identify what you are and are not doing well.

The last two years have seen U.S. corn yields fall well short of trendline, leading to smaller-than-projected total production. (DTN file photo by Katie Micik)

Newsom on the Market $3 Corn? 2/3 12:54PM
As we make our way through the offseason in the grain markets -- an offseason that comes to an end on March 31 -- the long-term price forecasts for corn are becoming more dramatic.

Wheat takes a licking and often keeps on... well, you know. (DTN file photo by Elaine Shein)

Sanow's Market Sense How Quickly Things Can Change 2/2 11:04AM
After months of an overall lack of fresh news, wheat has had its fair share of bullish headlines recently.

The view of some that the U.S. cattle herd is on the verge of expansion is nothing more than a mirage. (Livestock photo by Russ Quinn; photo illustration by Nick Scalise)

The Market's Fine Print The Mirage of Herd Expansion 1/31 5:30PM
Another mirage of cattle expansion has dissipated before our very eyes, says DTN Livestock Analyst John Harrington.

A new fund is meant to protect commodity traders, such as elevators and their customers. (DTN file photo by Scott R Kemper)

Fund to Protect Farmers and Ranchers CME CEO: Fund is First Step in Series of Customer Protection Changes 2/2 12:33PM
CME Group is launching a $100 million fund aimed at protecting farmers and ranchers in commodity markets.

Government controls mean prices at the Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange run at large discounts to Chicago. (DTN photo by Alastair Stewart)

Argentina Crop Outlook - 3 Government Steers Farmers Away From Corn, Wheat 1/30 6:24AM
Argentina's farmers hoped new corn and wheat export rules would make it easier to sell these grains. But it is becoming clear that the changes are largely cosmetic and soybeans will overwhelmingly remain the crop of choice across the pampas.

Seeing rural kids on a tractor was once the norm, if anyone even gave it a though. Pictured are brothers Hayden and Clay Oswald. (Photo courtesy Richard Oswald)

Farm Labor Change Not Enough Lawmakers Critical of Proposal to Restrict Youth Work on Farms 2/2 2:23PM
A Department of Labor official defended the need to update child-labor laws for farms, but highlighted changes made to ensure children can work for family members. Still, lawmakers criticized the proposal with one congressman saying he would block any funding to implement it.

Two generations often see risk and reward differently, in part because of their age differences. (Photo by gerlos, CC SA-BY 2.0)

Klinefelter: By the Numbers Develop a Common Vision for Transition 2/1 11:14AM
CEOs and successors need to share core values, mission and goals for the business. Start with these talking points.

Former Heifer International CEO Jo Luck (center) and former U.S. Senator Tom Daschle (right) advised DuPont Executive Vice President Jim Borel to focus agriculture research on food quality as well as quantity. (DTN photo by Marcia Zarley Taylor.)

$10 Billion for Food Security DuPont Ups R&D Ante for Food Gap 2/2 4:23PM
DuPont's $10 billion downpayment to fill shortfalls in food supplies shifts emphasis to quality and affordability of food, not just quantity.

The Week Ahead on DTN/PF

Monday, February 6

Ag Reports: Export Inspections

Tuesday, February 7

No Ag Reports Scheduled

Wednesday, February 8

Ag Reports: USDA Report Preview

Thursday, February 9

Ag Reports: Crop Production, USDA Supply & Demand, Export Sales

Personal Appearances: DTN Senior Analyst Darin Newsom at the Michigan Agricultural Commodities Outlook Conference in East Lansing at 2 p.m.

Friday, February 10

Ag Reports: Dairy Products Prices, CFTC

This information compiled by Kim Adrian, DTN associate editor. She can be reached at kim.adrian@dtn.com

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Government controls mean prices at the Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange run at large discounts to Chicago. (DTN photo by Alastair Stewart)

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