The Three Legs of Speculators, Hedgers and Farmers

About this episode

The episode discusses the relationship between speculators, hedgers, and farmers in commodities trading and forecasts the cattle price rally.

Commodities trading has ancient roots including the commodity price index that help hedge for all parties involved in a trade. Our Summer School series kicks off with Kurt Nelson and a course in how commodity futures markets work, why speculators and farmers genuinely need each other, and why the cattle price rally may not peak until 2027 or 2028.

People in this episode

Guest: Kurt Nelson

Topics covered

• commodities trading
• commodity futures markets
• speculators
• hedgers
• farmers
• cattle price rally

Keywords

• commodities
• trading
• futures markets
• speculators
• farmers
• cattle prices
• hedging

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iowa PBS

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