Yes, through SP Risk Services LLC, an insurance agency. Specific DRP recommendations are provided through our agency. These licensed agents can help you determine the best transaction for your operation.

Unlike farmers who manage price risk only on what they produce, dairy farmers must also address price risk on feed, a major input cost. TFM360 helps manage price risk for milk and feed components such as corn and soybeans. Talk to us to determine if we can help you with other agricultural commodities.

The TFM360 analytics team always starts with the belief that your first, most powerful marketing step for any farm marketing strategy is to lock in favorable prices incrementally. The team follows a strict rules-based approach, which lends itself well to avoiding the dangers of attempting to outguess the markets. We support those cash recommendations with hedging recommendations that are designed to protect and prepare you for whatever the market may bring. Because a market surprise can have such a negative impact on farms, the team assesses potential scenarios across a range of market conditions to help operations be positioned for various market outcomes.

The TFM360 analytics team offers three risk models.

• The first, called Options+, utilizes only lower-risk tools. Fixed-risk tools will yield lesser reward in down markets, yet are lower risk and have substantially lower capital requirements.
• The second model is called Futures+. This model layers in higher-risk tools. These higher-risk tools could yield greater reward in down markets, yet are higher risk and have greater capital requirements if the market works against you.
• The third model is called Blended. This model layers in a combination of fixed-risk and higher-risk tools.

A member of the TFM consulting team will help you determine the right approach for you and your operation. As part of their assessment, they will discuss your personal goals and the goals for your operation.

They’ll also delve into your personal risk tolerance. As part of their assessment, they’ll review the different marketing tools at your disposal to reach your goals so that you have a clear picture of the pros and cons of each tool. This will give you more insight and perspective of your true risk tolerance with respect to farm marketing.

Yes. The TFM360 analytics team is comprised of risk managers with a strong, successful history of experience and research capabilities. Model farm recommendations are analyzed thoroughly before being made, utilizing a strict, rules-based approach.

Total Farm Marketing believes that regular, consistent communication with our TFM360 producers, regardless of size, is crucial to the success of their risk management strategy. You’ll hear from the TFM360 analytics team with the recommendations and market insight reports delivered 5 times per week and timely updates on factors impacting your marketing. These are delivered via email and our client portal at www.TotalFarmMarketing.com. You’ll also receive texts with important pricing and trigger information.

In addition, the TFM360 consulting team provides optional personal service, including regular phone calls and additional calls whenever a trigger has been hit. The team will reach out as you wish. You can also call them whenever you like. They are available every business day–live–from 7:30 to 4:30 Central Time.

You continue to deliver your commodity to the destination of your choice. If you are buying feed, you would continue to purchase feed at a supplier of your choice.

Yes, the TFM360 consulting team will involve your lender upon your request. You determine your lender’s level of involvement.

TFM360 customers who provide access to their hedging and milk activity receive a monthly status report of their farm marketing activity, including their weighted average price. All producers who work with TFM360 will have access to personal positions via an online client portal, including weighted average price, net value per bushel, and total inventory value for each commodity and crop year.

Total Farm Marketing (or TFM) began as Stewart-Peterson in 1985. Over the course of its history, Total Farm Marketing’s family of companies has focused on helping farmers across the country manage commodity price volatility. We specialize in comprehensive strategies and recommendations on commodities that span a producer’s operation.

Rather than an emotional and reactionary approach to the market, TFM360 takes a strategic, whole farm approach to farm marketing over multiple years. TheTFM360 analytics team offers farmers strategic farm marketing recommendations and market insights as a service of Stewart-Peterson Inc.

The TFM360 consulting team from Stewart-Peterson Group Inc. takes it to the next level by tailoring the recommendations to help meet the unique needs of every farm. It offers dedicated, intensive one-on-one service to farmers to ensure that farmers have the support to follow through on their farm marketing decisions for all the commodities that impact them.

The TFM360 analytics team believes that paying for whole farm recommendations, not transactions, offers better potential for long-term customer success. That’s why Stewart-Peterson Inc. charges an annual fee for the recommendations. This fee is calculated based on the cwt of milk produced annually. A Total Farm Marketing representative can calculate the fee for your operation. If you choose to work with the TFM360 consulting team, a $21 round-turn fee will apply per hedging trade. If you choose to work with SP Risk Services LLC, the premium cost will apply for endorsements.

We believe the best way to motivate our TFM360 consulting team, first and foremost, is to hire people motivated by customer success. We then compensate them based on how our TFM360 clients value the recommendations we offer. Our TFM360 consulting team is paid a salary and an incentive based solely on retaining the customer relationship.

Communication is the key to success with TFM360. The team is available at 800.334.9779 from 7:30 to 4:30 Central Time whenever the market is open.