Sentences with phrase «selling wheat futures»

Producers and consumers of wheat can manage wheat's price risk by buying or selling wheat futures.

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The history of stock futures, in general, dates back to the 1840's, when regional farmers met in Chicago to sell wheat to dealers for cold, hard cash — a practice that was dubbed as «spot» pricing.

For example, a speculator who buys a wheat futures contract for $ 4.00 per bushel and later sells it for $ 4.50 per bushel earns a profit of 50 cents per bushel.

The group of interdisciplinary researchers from the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, analysed the complete process from growing and harvesting the wheat; milling the grain; producing the flour; baking the bread and the production of the final product, ready to be sold by retailers.

Before the advent / history of futures trading, any producer of a given commodity (e.g. a farmer growing wheat, soy or corn) often would be at the mercy of a commodity dealer when it came to selling his product at his / her desired price level.

A futures contract is a common derivative: A farmer might agree to sell wheat next spring for a price set today.