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Agricultural Markets

Rice Dairy understands that Agribusiness and the Dairy Industry are highly correlated. Rice Dairy as a member of the CME Group and as a broker clearing transactions through ADM Investor Services has access to excellent research and trading capabilities in the Ag Sector.

Rice Dairy has been involved in the Agricultural industry for many years. With the expertise that Pete Turk, Partner, brings to the firm, having worked at major agricultural clearing firms on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1987, Rice Dairy is confident that we can produce results in the management and marketing of your Agricultural needs.

ADM Investor Services, our partner in Clearing, originated in the 1930s with the founding of Tabor Grain and Feed Company, an independently owned grain merchandising operation in Central Illinois. In 1995, Archer Daniels Midland, located in Decatur, Illinois acquired Tabor Commodities and adopted the name they use today. ADM Investor Services, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Archer Daniels Midland Company. ADM is the world leader in BioEnergy and has a premier position in the agricultural processing value chain. ADM is one of the world’s largest processors of soybeans, corn, wheat and cocoa. ADM is also a leading manufacturer of biodiesel, ethanol, soybean oil and meal, corn sweeteners, flour and other value-added food and feed ingredients.

Being so involved in the Agricultural markets is an asset in research and also in value placement among the agricultural commodity complex of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group, Inc.)

CME Group Commodities include the most diverse commodities including the following:

Corn (mini-size available)		Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index
Soybeans (mini-size available)		Deliverable Butter
Soybean Oil		Cash-Settled Butter
Soybean Meal		Dry Whey
South American Soybeans		Milk Class IV
Wheat (mini-size available)		Milk Class III
Oats		Nonfat Dry Milk
Ethanol		Feeder Cattle
Rough Rice		Live Cattle
Frozen Pork Belly		Random Length Lumber
Lean Hog		S & P GSCI

For more information regarding CME Group Commodities, click here.

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