“AgriCharts is dedicated to providing valuable services and content to the agricultural industry and the launch of GrainProfessional demonstrates our commitment,” said Eero Pikat, President of Barchart and Publisher of GrainProfessional.  “By combining topics that are the most significant to grain merchandisers, we have developed a unique publication for this influential group of professionals who facilitate price discovery and provide liquidity to cash and derivative grain markets,” added Pikat.

GrainProfessional also features a cover story and key summary market data from Barchart. Also, in addition to staff writers and editors, GrainProfessional contributors include Garrett Toay of AgTraderTalk, Craig Solberg of Freese-Notis Weather, Alan Brugler of Brugler Marketing & Management, and Eugene Kunda, Ph.D. from the Office for Futures and Options Research at University of Illinois. In addition to the print publication, GrainProfessional will feature an online perspective through weekly live educational webinars covering topics included in the monthly publication, as well as others, presented by professionals from throughout the industry.

“GrainProfessional features an impressive line-up of contributors and mixture of content,” said Mark Haraburda, Managing Director of Barchart and Editor-in-Chief of GrainProfessional. “We are also supplementing the monthly print publication with weekly webinars which will provide grain merchandisers with an ongoing selection of live and recorded presentations on important industry topics,” added Haraburda.

The GrainProfessional publication and webinars are available for free. To subscribe to GrainProfessional or register for a webinar, please visit www.GrainProfessional.com or call 877-247-4394.

Some elevators have multiple locations and buy multiple commodities which increases the number of cash bids they must calculate each day.  This task becomes quite time-consuming without an automated process.  AgriCharts, the agricultural division of Barchart, provides web-based cash grain bid management solutions for grain elevators, cooperatives and other buyers of grain.  AgriCharts’ solutions include cash bid integration with third-party systems, calculation, distribution and cash bid displays.  AgriCharts’ solutions are designed to make the cash grain bid management and distribution process more efficient and effective.

Here are some examples of AgriCharts hosted cash grain bid displays:

http://www.elkhartgrain.com/pages/custom.php?id=14724

http://www.statelinecoop.com/markets/cashgrid.php?basis=1

Click on the cash bid prices for a chart.

View a video about AgriCharts cash grain bid management here: http://media.agricharts.com/class/Overview2-2/Overview2-2.html