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with the rapidly changing markets we can monitor the CBOT for you during the 17 ½ hours of daily trade.

To take advantage of this FREE service, call or email a settlement location with your pricing offer and the information below.

• The commodity (Corn, Beans, or Wheat- delivery to Buckley or Ludlow locations ONLY)
• The number of bushels you would like to price
• The Ludlow Coop location where you would like to deliver grain to
• What price/futures you would like
• The delivery period of your bushels (Examples: Cash, January, New Crop)

We keep grain pricing offers up to 30 days; we will reach out to you when/if offers are picked up.

Buckley 217-394-2331
Danforth 815-269-2390
Ludlow 217-396-4111
Goodwine 815-457-2880
Piper City 815-707-3347

It’s time to start marketing for the 2025 new crop year we are offering… Ludlow Coop’s Average Pricing Program or you can pick your Average Pricing Weeks

Average Pricing Contract

Helps you to create a base for a marketing plan on your 2025 crop

• Price grain when the average historical seasonal values are at their highest (January through June).
• Still leave a good portion of your grain to market (Recommend to commit no more than 20-35% of an average crop).
• A good way to help your landlords get some pricing done and take the emotion out of pricing grain.
• Extends the producers marketing window, selling ahead instead of after harvest (19 months vs. 9 months).

Ludlow Coop’s Average Pricing Program (using our set weeks):

Details:

• Weekly pricing will be done at noon each Wednesday.
• Pricings will run from February 12th through June 25th (20 weeks total).
• Your final price will be an average of these 20 weekly pricings.
• Prices will be based on the December (CZ25) corn futures and November (SX25) bean Futures.
• Contracts will be for fall 2025 delivery corn and soybeans. All you will need to do is let us know how many bushels you want to put into the program along with which Ludlow Coop location you will be delivering to and a purchase contract will be written when you sign up
  (No pricing on contract until the end of program).
• There is no cost to the producer for this program. Sign up no later than Tuesday, February 11th.
• Contract must be signed & received by a Ludlow Coop Facility prior to the start date.

Patron’s Choice Average price contract (your choice of consecutive weeks):

*** patrons can choose your own pricing window ***

Details:

• Weekly pricing will be done at noon each Wednesday.
• YOU choose the pricing period between the dates of February 05, 2025 thru August 27, 2025.
• Must be consecutive weeks – you choose the number of weeks, prior to contract start date.
• Prices will be based off December Corn futures (CZ25)and November Bean futures (SX25).
• Contracts will be for fall 2025 delivery corn and/or soybeans.
• Bushels to be stated prior to start of weekly pricing.
• There is no cost to the producer for this program.
• Contract must be signed & received by a Ludlow Coop facility prior to YOUR start date.

Be sure to give us your email address as weekly pricing info will be emailed. Final pricing and a copy of your contract updated with the average price will be mailed to you at the end of the programs.

Contact one of the Ludlow offices for more information and to get signed up!

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Space as Available for Corn & Beans

Corn deliveries beginning 12-2-24 are eligible for:
Delayed pricing – free moisture averaged by farm id (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 15.0%
FREE DP is until 2:00pm on 8-31-25, new 2025 crop rates will go into effect at that time.

Corn deliveries beginning 12-2-24 are eligible for:
Open storage – moisture averaged by farm id (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 14.0% charges of no drop charge and .0012 cent per bushel per day (3.5 cents per month) thru 8-31-25, new 2025 crop rates will go into effect at that time.

Bean deliveries beginning 11-18-24 are eligible for:
Delayed pricing – free no moisture averaging (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 13.0%
FREE DP is until 2:00pm on 8-31-25, new 2025 crop rates will go into effect at that time.

Bean deliveries beginning 11-18-24 are eligible for:
Open storage – no moisture averaging (within a 30 day delivery period) and shrunk to 13.0% charges of no drop charge and .0012 cent per bushel per day (3.5 cents per month) thru 8-31-25, new 2025 crop rates will go into effect at that time.

The inbound and outbound scales at Paxton are getting RFID card readers installed prior to harvest. This will allow for a more accurate transaction for the drivers at the scale as it will eliminate some of the human error regarding farm ID’s and truck identification.

• Each patron will be given one RFID card that will go in each vehicle you haul in with. One card for each vehicle. This card will be tied to each individual patron.
• When you pull on the inbound scale, the card reader will identify you. There is a display screen that will identify customer name, farm ID and commodity. On your first load of a particular field, you will need to let the office staff know what farm ID you are hauling in on. The RFID system will recall the last information hauled in on until you change farm ID’s or commodity, at which point you will need to let the scale operator know the new information.
• You will need to let the scale operator know when you change farm ID’s or commodity.
• You will be weighed, probed and proceed to the dump pit.
• When you pull on the outbound scale, you will be automatically weighed out, and a scale ticket will print for you.
• Once the RFID system installation is complete, we will set up a time for you to stop in at Paxton and pick up your RFID cards to place in your vehicle and show you how the system works. You will need to get these cards in each of your vehicles prior to delivering grain to Paxton this fall.

We are hoping that this will improve the accuracy for load identification at the Paxton scale.

We will be sending out further information once everything is in place and ready to go.

Grain Elevator Operations – Ludlow Cooperative Elevator Co.

Job Summary: Responsible for providing positive customer service to all patrons and fellow employees of the company. Under the direction of the Operations Manager and the Location Superintendent, perform daily activities to help maintain location efficiency and profitability of the organization.

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