Pioneer MarketPoint® Resource – The Better Way to Market

Incremental profit
A number of factors, including increased demand for corn, have created unprecedented volatility in the daily CBOT futures prices. Daily trading ranges are wider than ever. MarketPoint resource helps you to "hit the daily highs" using exclusive
e-Pit® technology that executes offers with every tick, not only during the daytime trading session, but also throughout the night trade (6 PM to 6 AM). Trading electronically with expanded hours helps you to "hit the daily highs" more consistently and get the most the market has to offer any given day. 

Most grain buyers source as much corn directly from farmers as possible because it has been handled fewer times and blended less often. This creates a product with less foreign material and damage, and more consistency, which is good for getting the most out of every bushel. Giving buyers visibility and direct access to your higher-grade corn is worth more to them and creates more value for you.

Pioneer^® brand hybrids with above average ethanol yield potential (EYP) are designated as high total fermentable (HTF) ethanol hybrids. These ethanol corn hybrids deliver higher levels of fermentable starch, resulting in more ethanol yield per bushel than commodity corn. Pioneer hybrids with above average available energy are designated as high available energy (HAE) hybrids. These hybrids are suited to deliver more available energy from the same number of bushels, and are valued by the monogastric (pork and poultry) livestock industries. Providing end-users access to large volumes of corn with the right end-use characteristics is worth more to them and creates more value for you.

Differentiate and move from commodity to quality
MarketPoint resource uses the latest technologies in bin monitoring and storage to highlight quality characteristics and differentiate high-quality corn to end users. MarketPoint resource also provides a special certification that recognizes growers who take exceptional care in understanding and delivering on the quality needs of corn processors. Communicating this information to grain buyers makes your corn worth more to them and creates more value for you.

Dynamic pricing benefits of MarketPoint resource
Grain buyers are busy people – If a producer has ever been unable to get through to the buyer by phone and missed an opportunity, or wanted to sell grain while watching the overnight markets trade but couldn't because the grain merchandiser was unavailable, now they can make that sale immediately. Growers are very busy people who need the flexibility of expanded hours of business. The dynamic pricing in Pioneer MarketPoint resource gives the grain industry tools to serve their customers around the clock, because that is how a growing number of farmers want to sell their crops.

Markets are more volatile than ever – The buyer has a checklist of other offers and the obligation to monitor rapid market fluctuations on behalf of many customers. That's too much to expect of any one person. Producers can't watch the markets every minute either. By using the power of dynamic pricing within Pioneer MarketPoint resource, buyers can monitor active offers in real-time with every tick in the market. Producers simply set their target price and use market volatility to their advantage to reach their targets. The system monitors market movements for both parties, matches the producer's asking price and the buyers bid instantly, and sends confirmations to both parties.

Open 24/7 – Daily highs don't always occur during the daytime trading session. But nobody expects buyers to be physically watching producer offers during the overnight trading session from 6 PM to 6 AM. However, many producers prefer to do their grain marketing during the evening hours when they have more time and fewer distractions. With MarketPoint resource, producers can send offers to one or several buyers any time of the day. With dynamic pricing and the exclusive e-Pit technology, buyers and sellers can also use the volatility in the overnight trading session to match asking prices with buyer bids.

Exclusive e-Pit technology – Here is how the e-Pit technology works. A farmer can post an offer to deliver cash corn to his or her local buyer on MarketPoint resource. The farmer chooses their bushel quantity, a delivery period, and a desired cash price they wish to receive for their commodity. This offer immediately appears on the buyer's screen and the buyer assigns a futures contract and basis level. The buyer's goal, as a hedger, is to purchase the cash grain and immediately obtain a futures sale of the same quantity at their desired basis level. In other words, eliminate "slippage." MarketPoint resource monitors offers against every tick of the futures market from 9:30 AM to 1:15 PM and from 6 PM to 6 AM using the CBOT electronic futures markets, and automatically submits a hedge order to an introducing broker's electronic order entry system. MarketPoint resource with e-Pit can place a hedge order, receive confirmation of the fill, execute the cash purchase, and notify both buyer and seller in less than 10 seconds.

On any given day, rest assured the Pioneer MarketPoint resource will use the power of dynamic pricing, e-Pit, and other technology to find the price you want in your local marketplace.