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Now Available: Organic Pricing Tool for Your Website
We are pleased to announce a new, free tool to track organic grain prices: a table (called a "widget") that displays up-to-date price information- right on your company's website (see below). Albert Lea Seed hosts our widget on their organics site, and you can too! Click here to view.
If you'd like to increase the number of visitors to your website, and provide a valuable service to your customers and stakeholders, free-of-charge, please contact Julia Hofmeister.
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Record Volumes Traded on Mercaris Platform in First Half of 2017
In the first half of 2017, more than 370,000 bushels of organic, non-GMO, and transitional grains were traded on the Mercaris Auction Platform, more than tripling total 2016 quantities. Our platform continues to grow as buyers expand their markets and sellers find new sources of grain demand. Since the launch of the Mercaris Auction Platform, farmers, merchandisers, mills, processors and brokers have traded more than 650,000 bushels of organic, transitional, and non-GMO grains, with a total notional value of nearly $5 million.
To access prices and quality specifications of past auctions, or to buy or sell grain via the Mercaris platform, create a free account at www.mercaris.com, or contact our Director of Market Operations, Lizzie Ekeberg.
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Annual Organic & Non-GMO Sector Reports Now Available
Mercaris has finalized its annual commodity reports on organic & non-GMO corn, soybean, and wheat. The reports are designed to give a strategic overview of these crops, and cover acreage, demand-side analysis, price trends, and other macroeconomic factors that affect these markets.
Dairy White Paper
In addition to our Annual Sector Reports, this year Mercaris also released a comprehensive, research-based white paper on the organic dairy market, with a focus on the various classes of dairy that result from processing fluid milk. This report analyzes supply and demand components of the market for various classes of organic dairy components including beverage/fluid milk, yogurt and cream, cheese, milk powders, and butter. It also delves into the structure of pricing and contracting practices and includes information on dairy processing infrastructure, logistics and economics.
Contact us if you'd like to access any of these reports.
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