JSA leverages this valuable agricultural experience with team-based consulting, offering our clients broader and deeper trading and risk management recommendations than they might get from an individual broker.

Commodity Futures Consulting Services

Some JSA clients require consulting on their future trades without brokerage services. For commodity futures consulting clients:

  • We make tailored, client oriented calls with information about factors that may influence that day’s market.
  • We send emails throughout the day updating market and weather recaps
  • We provide additional resources including our e-newsletter Market Views, market studies, JSA proprietary data, and The ProExporter Network (PRX) research data updates.

Risk Management Consulting Services

JSA risk management clients receive our full range of services with an emphasis on margin management. We recognize that for many in the industry commodity price relationships and spreads within various commodity classes provide the most risk and the most opportunity. Let the experience of JSA’s team help guide you in this key area of risk management strategies.

Cash Basis Consulting Services

The cash basis environment is essentially moving from macro fundamentals to regional and local fundamentals which is where JSA really shines. Our expert understanding of regional, state, and county level impacts on basis gives us the opportunity to truly bring value to clients. This value is derived from an acute understanding of grain flows, regional demand hubs, and transportation impacts, all of which influence cash basis.

Let JSA customize a basis analysis and regional grain flow study to help identify opportunities in your area.

Some JSA clients require consulting on their future trades without brokerage services. For commodity futures consulting clients:

  • We make pre-opening futures market telephone calls with information about factors that may influence that day’s market.
  • We send emails throughout the day updating market and weather recaps
  • Provide additional resources include our e-newsletter Market Views, market studies, JSA proprietary data, and The ProExporter Network (PRX) research data updates.

JSA risk management clients receive our full range of services, plus advice and guidance with grain hedging and grain price information and grain purchasing. Our information and assistance is geared to their specific industry’s risk management and necessary financial reporting.

We offer daily recaps and a yearly history for main cash markets that provide the average fall basis and best net return to storage going into summer, calculated weekly.

We augment this data with The ProExporter monthly data, which provides cash market specific supply and demand studies that reveal surplus and deficit grain areas, with the likely basis impact.

Additional basis studies are available that consider net return to storage and comparisons to previous years.

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