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Agribusiness Consultants in Minnesota

Consulting and insurance
Detailed market position reports
Customized software

We are agribusiness market advisory consultants in Minnesota who provide cost-of-production analysis, marketing strategy recommendations, and crop insurance. Minnesota West Ag Services, LLC or MNWestAg is our company name. Using the "MNWestAg Position Manager," we help producers make sound marketing decisions and understand the financial impact of their decisions. As Minnesota agribusiness consultants, we believe understanding your market position is critical. We provide detailed Market Position Reports for each crop that includes mark-to-market revenue, position graphs, options & futures, insured bushels sold, delivery and revenue schedules, and has been customizing software to match the changing needs of agriculture. In addition, you receive timely market advice along with our weekly newsletter. 

We are also one of the few agribusiness consultants in Minnesota to provide feedlot tracking services for cattle producers. The tracking system was developed in 1991 to facilitate the tracking of all aspects of livestock production starting with origination cost and weights and including trucking, veterinary, feed, and yard cost along with livestock sales to provide extensive close-out reports, and analysis. If you wish to locate us, we are on Bird Island, Minnesota. We are always just a call or an email away.

 

Agribusiness Consultants

Since 1987, we have provided the agricultural community with consulting services as agribusiness consultants in Minnesota. Working with numerous legal firms, we have been involved with forming business plans and compiling S-4 prospectus used for stock offerings. and doubling up as an agriculture insurance agency in Minnesota . In the same vein, we have been asked by corporate CEOs to review several legal documents and several investment bankers on various projects. Additionally, we have written business plans for entities considering potential projects. One such entity was MN Maize, considered a specialty starch project in Renville County. The MN Maize Business Plan overview written in 2000 is an example of the one type of service that we provide. Contact us now and let us be your agricultural consulting company in Minnesota .

See For Yourself China

MN Soybean Research & Promotion Council 2013 See For Yourself Trade Mission to China

David Scheibel was fortunate to be invited along for a 10 day China trade mission trip taking place from March 19 to March 28, 2013. A total of 27 Minnesota farmers and soybean officials were part of the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion council's (MSR&PC) International Marketing "See For Yourself" project. This popular program, now in its eighth year, gives Minnesota farmers a personal view of how their checkoff dollars work to develop international markets.

Newsletter Comments

MNWestAg provides a Weekly Comment newsletter to clients via email. The newsletters are later posted to the archive page for viewing. Click this link to access the Weekly Comments Newsletter page. Click the link to access the Options Analysis pages.

The Allendale 2014 & 2015 Price Projections were exceptionally close. Past results are no guarantee of future performance.

Pro Ag of Renville County

MN West Ag Services, LLC is a proud supporter of ProAg of Renville County. ProAg is a non-profit organization that is committed to finding the balance between farmer, neighbor and consumer. This, we believe can be achieved by supporting and encouraging farmers while educating and making the general public aware of the important role that agriculture plays in our lives. The ProAg Mission is to encourage the cooperation of all Ag Industries for the communication and education of Agriculture.

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Corn Rally into 3-Day Weekend -

The corn market rallied on Friday with the nearby contracts up 8 ¼ to 10 cents and other contracts 1 ¼ to 3 ¾ cents higher across the board.

Cattle Close Mixed on Friday -

Live cattle futures settled the Friday session with contracts up 22 cents to 40 cents lower. February slipped back down $2.025 from last Friday.

Hogs Fall Lower on Friday -

Lean hog futures fell back 65 cents to $2.22 on the Friday session, with Feb slipping down $1.425 on the week. The national average base hog

Soybeans Rally Back Higher on Friday -

Soybeans posted a rally ahead of Monday’s inauguration. Contracts were up 10 to 15 cents in the nearbys, with new crop contracts up 3 ½ to 7 ¾

Wheat Firms Ahead of the Long Weekend -

The wheat market closed out the Friday session with contracts steady to slightly higher. The Chicago SRW market was fractionally higher to 1 ¼

Cotton Posts Friday Gains -

Cotton futures settled Friday with contracts back up 54 to 87 points across the board. March cotton ended the week up 59 points. The outside markets

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Who We Are

Minnesota West Ag Services, LLC

David Scheibel

37554 Co. Road 4

Bird Island, MN 55310

877.365.3744

david@mnwestag.com

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