"HOPE" IS NOT A RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN
The Andersons Grain & Ethanol Group can help you replace "Hope" with an objective, comprehensive risk management program designed to help you MINIMIZE your risk and MAXIMIZE your profit!
FOUR SECRETS TO SUCCESS...
1. A Viable Market
2. An Efficient Plan
3. Adequate Financing
4. A Well-Conceived  and  
   Executed Risk
   Management Plan
Building a state-of-the-art ethanol production plant is just one key factor in your Ethanol business. A comprehensive risk management plan is equally important to your long term success.
DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC PLAN FOR...
  • Grain Originations Risk? Over 50% of your operational expenses are related to corn procurement. Our comprehensive program will help minimize cost, manage logistics and assure reliable product delivery.
  • Market Price Risk? Our price discovery, graphic modeling tools, cash grain expertise, and risk transfer execution give you the means to objectively manage risk.
  • Operational Risk? Our practical grain originations capability provides an assured, flexible flow of your #1 production input-corn.
  • Back Office Risk? Our proprietary grain management systems have been adapted to ethanol operations to assure cost effective, secure contract management, customer settlement, and comprehensive reporting.
A STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ANDERSONS OFFERS YOU:
- Over 60 years of grain origination and commodity risk management experience
- Innovative risk management tools for ethanol operators and their producer customers
- Risk management financing and execution
- Up-to-the-minute market and business information, and price discovery
- Dynamic, customized, graphical risk modeling with The Andersons Ethanol Profiler
- Motivated, professionally trained and experienced personnel
- Contract management & computerized reporting
- Grain handling & general management consulting
We can help you design your plan... and make it work. Our plan will get you the bushels you need...when you need them...in a cost effective transaction that will provide optimum flexibility for you AND your producer customers.

WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE. TODAY. EVERYDAY
    OUR ROOTS ARE STRONG
  • We are currently operating three ethanol plants. A 55 MGY  plant in Albion, MI; a 110 MGY plant in  Clymers, IN; and a 110 MGY plant in Greenville, OH.  We continue to evaluate additional opportunities to invest in this industry. Learn more about ethanol...

  • For over 60 years, The Andersons has helped farmers with their production, marketing, and risk managment needs.

  • 14 Grain Facilities, with over 80 million bushels of
    storage space, and state-of-the-art shipping and
    handling capability.

  • 16 Plant Nutrient operations that manufacture and market over one million tons of plant nutrients to more than 750 dealers.

     
  • 9 Retail Agronomy Centers in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana that offer a full range of services to producer customers.
The Andersons Grain & Ethanol Group originates approximately 230 million bushels of corn, soybeans and wheat annually from over 10,000 Midwest producer and elevator customers. Our originations approach utilizes one-on-one business relationships, focusing on the development and execution of integrated commodity prices and production respond to opportunities.

Our extensive data systems providein-depth micro and macro customer and market-related information to rapidly assess changing market conditions, and assist customers in their responses.
For more information about The Andersons Ethanol Services, please contact Neill McKinstray, 800.537.3370 or email at neill_mckinstray@andersonsinc.com