FCC E44 Joe Vaclavik - Grains to Gains: Making Informed Decisions in Grain Markets

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Joe Vaclavik is the founder and president of Standard Grain. He spent the first 13 years of his career at the Chicago Board of Trade prior to relocating to Nashville, Tennessee. Vaclavik deals directly with a number of large scale farms, feedlots, and commercial grain facilities within the US. 

 

1:33 An overview of his experience in the grain market

4:27 what are some of the ways that you're simplifying the grain markets and in some of those services and products or just even evaluating the risk and opportunities in the future that you're providing to people?

7:00  what other aspects of running. Grain farms. Are you helping others look at outside of the margin?

08:33 How do you, how do you do that? Get people past that FOMO. 

10:09 what are some other, other emerging trends and shifts you're kind of noticing in the grains right now?

13:45 can you just give us an overview of what that podcast looks like? 

16:29 are you looking at supply and demand and international markets as well?

18:00 so when you're looking at the, the weather patterns of South America, you know, how are you using that information into what you're doing

20:01 Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

23:30 Standardgrain.com

25:12 Takeaway from Joe

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