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1. Introduction
- Understanding the four types of price variation: Seasonal, Cyclical, Trend, Random
- Discussion of risk management and price variation patterns variation

2. Understanding Basis and its Signals
- Price and Basis patterns
- Marketing signals
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and Margin Accounting: Grains

3. Overview of Traditional Marketing Tools
- Futures
- Options
- Forward contracting
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and Margin Accounting: Grains
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and Margin Accounting: Spring Wheat
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and Margin Accounting: Winter Wheat
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and Margin Accounting: Corn

4. Insurance Policies for Risk Management
- Yield Protection (YP)
- Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion (RP-HPE)
- Revenue Protection (RP)
- Livestock Risk Protection (LRP)
- Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Insurance (VI-PRF)

5. Livestock Market Risk Control Options
- Using multiple risk controls to manage livestock marketing risk
* HANDOUT - Livestock Marketing Worksheet
* HANDOUT - Bulletin on Comparison of Livestock Marketing Alternatives
* TOOL - Beef Basis
* TOOL - LRP, Futures, and Options compared
* TOOL - LRP, Futures, and Options compared (2014)

6. Crop Market Risk Control Options
- Using multiple risk controls to manage crop marketing risk
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and COMBO: Spring Wheat
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and COMBO: Winter Wheat
* TOOL - Futures, Options, and COMBO: Corn

- Complete Handout Packet