Durum Sales Advisory today.  Otherwise, no new Targets or Marketing Plan Updates until after Christmas as we are content with the Benchmarks in the other Grains through into January.  Call or reply for specific recommendations for catch-ups or to help position your sales if you plan to deviate from our Benchmarks.

FOB Assiniboia, SK (Except for Lentil/Chickpea FOB Farm)

#1Canola:  Dec $13.24(2)   Mar $13.14(2)

#2Y.Pea:       Dec $8.29          Mar $8.43

#1Flax:          Dec $14.25        Mar $14.37

#2GrLentil:    Dec 18.5c

K.Chickpea:   Dec 32.5c

#EthWheat:   Dec $7.03         Mar $7.17

#2AD13.0:     Dec $7.80          Mar $8.15

#2HRS13.5:   Dec $7.69          Mar $7.73

– Better pricing may exist in deferred delivery months.  See “Deferred Real Values” post coming in a few hours.  Marketing Plan Updates/Targets (tonight/tomorrow) will always utilize Real Value prices, reflecting Cost of Carry.

*special “limited tonne” price

Venue confirmed for Thursday!

Kin Hut in Assniboia (between the swimming pool and RCMP detachment) at 5:30pm with supper and presentations starting at 6:00pm. Q&A sessions with myself and Darrin Hicks of DAS and a little Christmas cheer starting around 7pm.

All customers are welcome whether you be on the 2012 crop program or already signed up for the 2013.  The only difference between the two crop year sign-ups is eligibility for the iPad draw.  A number of phone calls pertaining to that so far, and basically, if you call and we discuss though next year with you committing to the year, you will be able to participate in the draw.

If you haven’t already, Please send a quick text or email to confirm your attendance so we can get a rough guess on food needs.

Who - J-MAS customers, J-MAS employees & DowAgroSciences
What - Commodity Marketing Meeting 
When - 6:00pm thru 9:00pm
Where - Either Trifons board room or the Kin Hut in Assiniboia
Why - Rotation Considerations for 2013
How - 2 Quick presentations followed by 2 sets of small group questions

If you missed the details on the monthly iPad giveaway, click here.

For tentative schedule of future meetings, click here.

Call, text or reply if you have questions.

We are running with the monthly marketing meetings and rescheduled Dec 7th’s meeting to this Thursday in Assiniboia.

Who - J-MAS customers, J-MAS employees & DowAgroSciences
What - Commodity Marketing Meeting 
When - 6:00pm thru 9:00pm
Where - Either Trifons board room or the Kin Hut in Assiniboia
Why - Rotation Considerations for 2013
How - 2 Quick presentations followed by 2 sets of small group questions

If you missed the details on the monthly iPad giveaway, click here.

For tentative schedule of future meetings, click here.

Call, text or reply if you have questions.

J-MAS in Conjunction with Dow AgroSciences will be giving away an iPad with 3G capabilities (approximate $800 value) at our first Marketing Meeting of the year on Thursday afternoon or evening (meeting details out tomorrow morning).

After 3 Days with an iPhone I now know even it doesn’t hold a candle to an iPad with respect to reading marketing reports or charts – specifically my own Posts and the Kostal reports. Blackberry are not even a distant third. iPads will be fully loaded with key Marketing, agronomy and industry pages/Apps and will be 3G and WiFi capable.

Our goal is to do a joint sponsorship of a 3G iPad at each marketing meeting or other J-MAS event until each customer has one. We would like to award 10-12 iPads over the coming 10 months (getting one to about 70-85% of our customers this year).

With the NHL season more and more in jeopardy, this promo will likely represent our industry sponsorship back to the farmer.

Here are the rules:
1. Only J-MAS Customers signed up for the 2013-14 Crop are eligible to win. Call for sign-up options anytime.

2. A key member of the winning operation must be in attendance to claim the prize. There will be a re-draw until a winner is in attendance. The iPad will be awarded to the Decision Maker of the operation regardless of who was in attendance the date they won.

3. Each operation will be allotted one entree per 1000 acres signed up for Marketing and/or Agronomy for the 2013-14 Crop Marketing year.

4. Once an operation wins, all their entree will be removed, bettering the odds of non-winners as the year goes on. Our goal is to get 1 iPad to each operation as it is the best Marketing tool on the planet and is something we believe our customers need to be successful.

5. J-MAS reserves the right to revise or change any of these rules as it sees fit.

6. There may be some Two iPad events/meetings such as crop show supper in Saskatoon. Kostal is still planning to meet us for dinner as he and I finally hammered out our new deal.

A full schedule of J-MAS iPad awarded events will be out as quickly as we can confirm sponsorship. J-MAS has a set budget and plans to jointly sponsor each prize. If it happens that every company is as forthcoming as DAS is this month (covering 100%), then J-MAS will award some solo sponsored iPads of its own.

Call or text with questions and remember you must be signed up for next year to win. You don’t necessarily have to have paid yet. A contract is good enough.