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Cash Grain Bids Inc

Cash Grain Bids Inc is the leading source of cash grain market intelligence with current and historical prices on over 3,400 cash grain markets. Every day we collect over 50,000 records of prices including prices for cash and forward delivery up to 12 months into the future. Nowhere will you find a better intelligence system on cash grain markets.
 
Cash Grain Bids Inc provides transparency to the grain markets. This transparency brings fairness and helps to indentify market value that has been missing in the cash grain markets.

Commodity markets are complex and mistakes are costly. Our computer based trading tools take the chaotic conditions of commodity markets and translate practical decisions for our users. Our Intelligent Trading tools give you the edge for profitable trading decisions.

Cash Grain Bids was founded in 1999 by Kevin McNew, who’d focused on commodity markets while a professor of agricultural economics at both the University of Maryland and Montana State University. His commentaries on cash markets are often seen on Bloomberg, DTN, Agweb.com., and Agriculture.com, and he is often quoted by the Reuters and Dow Jones news services for his opinions regarding commodity markets.

Cash Grain Bids Inc is a leading source of cash grain market data and intelligence, with current and historical prices on more than 3,400 cash grain markets for 17 major grain and oilseed commodities in the United States. These include, corn, soybeans, wheat, barley, canola, flaxseed and sunflowers. This Bozeman, Montana-based company uses satellite imagery for crop yield predictions, and also examines the impact of transportation pricing and biofuels on local and national grain prices. Clients include grain merchandisers and producers as well as news services and commodities traders.

Helping the American farmers find the optimum price for their corn crop and to be used for the production of ethanol, by finding the closest buyer with the highest purchase offer. This provides the farmers with an average of 8 to 20 cents more profit per this in turn helps the environment by reducing the dependence upon and use of fossil fuels for transportation.