Cash-Settled Butter futures provide a way to:
- Engage in price discovery for butter utilizing a cash-settled contract
- Effectively manage the price risk that merchandisers, producers, processors and others have related to the purchase or sale of butter
- Evaluate or reflect on both the current and future supply and demand situation for butter and related dairy products
- Take advantage of arbitrage and spread opportunities with other dairy products
- Trade to hedge or speculate based on expectations of directional price, spread movement or volatility in butter
- Manage price risk across a series of contracts in a single transaction using packs functionality