Merchants Plus Professionally Managed Marketing Programs

Professional marketing tools without the complexity of margin requirements associated with traditional hedging, and without being locked into a single elevator. Our products will empower you to mitigate price risk, simplify your marketing and diversify your approach. Enroll a portion of your grain in one of our professional managed pricing programs through FCStone Merchant Services, LLC (FMS) and let the experts do the work for you. Smart Blend is our transparent and disciplined portfolio approach program that focuses on a floor strategy to minimize risk and market exposure, while incorporating quantifiable historic price triggers and seasonal time triggers to take advantage of profit opportunities. Beacon is our rules-based program that uses a proprietary algorithm to execute a patient marketing plan. The algorithm sells slowly in low-price environments and ramps up into market rallies. You will have full transparency on program progress with weekly updates posted to https://merchantsplus.fcstone.com/