Someone once stated that " 'Hope' is not a risk management plan".

The Andersons Grain & Ethanol Group can help you replace "Hope" with an objective, comprehensive risk management program designed to help MINIMIZE the risk and MAXIMIZE the profit for your ethanol business!

THE ANDERSONS WILL PARTNER WITH YOU TO MANAGE THESE RISKS:

  • Grain Originations Risk.  Over 50% of your operational expenses are related to corn procurement. Our comprehensive program will help minimize cost, manage logistics and assure reliable product delivery.
  • Market Price Risk . Our price discovery, graphic modeling tools, cash grain expertise, and risk transfer execution give you the means to objectively manage risk.
  • Operational Risk . Our practical grain originations capability provides an assured, flexible flow of your #1 production input-corn.
  • Back Office Risk . Our proprietary grain management systems have been adapted to ethanol operations to assure cost effective, secure contract management, customer settlement, and comprehensive reporting.

A STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ANDERSONS OFFERS YOU:

  • Over 55 years of grain origination and commodity risk management experience
  • Innovative risk management tools for ethanol operators and their producer customers
  • Risk management financing and execution
  • Up-to-the-minute market and business information, as well as efficient price discovery
  • Dynamic, customized, graphical risk modeling with The Andersons Ethanol Profiler
  • Professionally trained and experienced personnel that are personally committed to your success
  • Contract management & computerized reporting
  • Grain handling & general management consulting

We can help you develop your risk management plan... and make it work. The Andersons will get you the bushels you need... when you need them... in a cost effective transaction that will provide optimum flexibility for you AND your producer customers.

At The Andersons, we use risk management to help our bottom line, our customers' bottom line and we can employ our processes to help protect your bottom line. For more information, please contact Mike Irmen, 800.537.3370 or email at mike_irmen@andersonsinc.com.



 

 
 
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