Tablerock Ranch eastern Wa | Look, the bottom line in this business, if one is at any scale at all, is using all the tools in the toolbox, and at times it's just to stay in the game. Like Garvo, we also have no appetite for massive margin calls. I don't understand half the hedging talk you row crop guys talk about, that means I have to go outside and trust some market guru with big piles of my hard-earned money if I want to hedge as some suggest. That being said anytime I can forward contract for a good profit with no margin calls I will, and I won't look back... WELL I will try not to look back, last year I left a big chunk of a new pickup on the table, but the ride I would have taken to get there would have taken years off my life! and the back and forth of margin calls would have been nauseating. You guys want to say I am part of the packer captured supply problem, OK I will accept my roll in that, but anyone willing to fall on their sword for the greater good, won't be in business for long.
Garvo, I hope you get out of your positions with limited bleeding. |