"I have been watching markets for my husband and after winning the game I feel more confident in helping him make marketing decisions."

" Zach did an excellent job of explaining the basic marketing meanings."

Quotes from participants in 2005 Women in Ag Conference

 
     
  "Because of your workshop, I forward contracted 70% of my crop. On my 1,200 acre farm, the difference between forward contracting and doing nothing was $70,000. Your teaching clearly sunk in!"  
 

 

 
  "I didn't grasp the crop insurance role in forward pricing. Now I feel more comfortable marketing a higher percentage of my production. The information was great!"               Recent Winning the Garme I participant  
 


Winning The Game is a series of marketing programs designed to help increase your marketing skills in a safe, risk-free environment.

Please attend a program near you!

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The Post-harvest Marketing Challenge

" To store or not to store?"
That is the question that drives post-harvest marketing.

In this workshop, you will learn to evaluate the post-harvest market and size up grain storage opportunities with greater confidence.

Like other workshops in the series, you get an opportunity to test your skills during a game that simulates a complete year of grain marketing. This provides you the ability to feel how marketing plans work with real-life situations. Afterward, you can compare your results against 15 years of real market prices. Can you beat the celebrity players?


Gain the Pre-harvest Marketing Advantage                                   

“ Marketing pays, and crop insurance is the tool that lets you do it with confidence.”

That is the take-home message of this half-day workshop.

During this program, you will simulate a year of grain marketing decisions. You can choose to purchase crop insurance as well as forward contracting their grain. See the results of your decisions, not just for one year, but also against 15 years of actual market prices.


Launch Your Pre-harvest Marketing Plan                                         

Here is your chance to develop a grain marketing plan!

Focused on practicing marketing skills, this half-day workshop will give you a chance to review an actual marketing plan. During this session, you will learn how crop insurance, target dates and target prices can help you consistently secure a good average crop price.

As part of this workshop, you will test your grain marketing skills with a fast-paced marketing game that simulates how a marketing plan can work, as well as how to react to real-life market changes.



Area Contacts for further information regarding Winning The Game Workshops:
Heather Gessner
gessner.heather@ces.sdstate.edu
Salem (605) 425-2242
Don Guthmiller
guthmiller.don@ces.sdstate.edu
Hayti (605) 783-3656
Stacy Hadrick
hadrick.stacy@ces.sdstate.edu
Sturgis (605) 347-2436

Sponsor A WTG Program!

Congratulations on adding the WTG program to the tools you offer your clients!

Taking the fear out of marketing is the first step and that is what these programs were designed to do.

WTG is based on a sponsor model. Your business is responsible for the advertising of the program, providing a location, and break items (if desired).

However, we have developed a media kit and time-line for you to use in the advertising effort, each specific to the program you wish to sponsor.

Download the sponsor brochure

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Statewide Sponsors
Click here to visit the SDSU Cooperative Extension website.
Click to visit the SD Soybean  website.

For additional Farm Management/Marketing information, visit the Department of Economics website at:
http://econ.sdstate.edu/