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AG Marketing • Risk Management • Commodity Brokerage • Crop Insurance • Consulting

BlumlAG provides farmers and agribusinesses with ag marketing, risk management and consulting services.  Clients include grain and livestock producers, grain elevators, feed manufactures, corn millers and others.

BlumlAG operates on one key philosophy - NO ONE can predict commodity market prices, and therefore a solid risk management program must maintain flexibility as to provide the best price no matter what markets do in the future.

Bill Bluml is a professional ag risk manager and the owner of BlumlAG Services.  Bill has had over 25 years experience in grain and livestock marketing.  He spent 20 years in the grain marketing, transportation, commodity brokerage and producer marketing divisions of West Central Cooperative in Ralston, Iowa.  In 1999 he opened BlumlAG Services.  BlumlAG provides customers the key element of sound risk management...understanding.  We feel that it is essential that all customers understand the marketing plan laid out for them.  Education, analysis, planning and execution are all key areas that we focus on to provide a quality service to our customers.

BlumlAG provides the following services to its customers:

Grain Marketing and Risk Management

            Cash marketing and basis analysis

            Carry analysis, best return to storage (commercial and/or farm storage)

            Flexible options-based marketing plans

            Commodity futures and options marketing tools

            Grain marketing education

            Basis trading

            “What If?” marketing results analysis (including return per acre analysis)

            Commodity Futures and Options Hedging and Brokerage Services

(As a branch office of Advance Trading, Inc. an introducing broker of Man Financial, Inc.)

Livestock Risk Management and Marketing

            Cattle and Lean Hog Hedging

(As a branch office of Advance Trading, Inc. an introducing broker of Man Financial, Inc.)

            Flexible options based marketing plans for livestock and feed

            Feed purchasing (cash, futures and options)

Crop and Livestock Insurance Services

            Breakdown and analysis of various types and levels of crop insurance coverage

            How do your crop insurance decisions affect your risk management plan?

            “What If?” analysis of insurance risk – reward under different price and yield scenarios

            Crop Insurance Sales and Service

            Livestock Insurance Sales and Service

(As a branch office of MacDonald Insurance Agency, Inc.)

Give BlumlAG a call today to learn how we can help you protect your grain or livestock operation from the risks that you face.

Mailing Address:  513 Idaho Street, P.O. Box 202, Glidden, Iowa  51443-0202

Telephone:  Glidden (712) 659-3841 •  Arcadia (712) 689-2761

E-Mail:  billb@blumlag.com

Our Mission

To provide our customers with a risk management solution that will "work" whether the market moves up or down.  Our goal is to take advantage of opportunities in the market and limit our customers risk to adverse price moves, while benefiting from markets that move in their favor.

Analysis, Planning and Execution are the keys to successful risk management.