Futures & Options Hedging

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Built for Grain Producers.

  • Customized risk strategies for your operation — not your neighbor's.
  • 45+ years of futures brokerage experience
  • Daily market analysis
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Ted, Karen and Sherm
45+
Years of futures
brokerage experience
100%
Customized strategies
for your operation
Daily
Market analysis from
Ted & Karen
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Grain Marketing Plan
for all producers
Why Zaner

The Zaner Ag Difference

With a team of industry experts led by Chief Market Strategist Ted Seifried, enhanced with expert analysis by Karen Braun, we break down individual risk profiles and develop customized margin and capital-efficient strategies to address your needs in a shifting market landscape.

Tailored Approach

Your situation is not the same as your neighbor's. What sets us apart is our ability to listen closely and match your unique requirements to time-tested, proven strategies.

Education

We consider ourselves teaching brokers. We want all of our clients to understand exactly how each hedge strategy will work for them — because most non-hedgers are simply under-informed.

Experience

For more than 45 years, Zaner has provided expert advice and brokerage services worldwide. With decades in farm risk management and generations running our own farm, we bring a personal approach.

Our Strategists

Expert analysis. Real results.

Ted Seifried
Ted Seifried
VP & Chief Market Strategist

Ted and his team specialize in agricultural hedging using futures, futures spreads, outright options and option combinations. He regularly appears on CNBC, Fox Business, AgWeb, and RFDTV.

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Karen Braun
Karen Braun
Chief Market Analyst

Renowned columnist and analyst, Karen focuses on global agriculture markets with a primary emphasis on grains and oilseeds. Her data-driven commentary adds context to whatever is driving markets.

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Our Expertise

Our Hedging Expertise. Your Operation.

We have experience helping a broad range of clients:
Grain and Livestock Producers, Feed Mills, Flour Mills, Bakeries, Grain Elevators / Co-Ops, Food Processors, Ethanol Plants, Importers / Exporters.

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Hedging Paper
Free Tool for Producers

Grain Marketing Plan

Know exactly when to sell. Professional grain marketing tools built for the modern farmer, backed by Zaner's commodity expertise.

  • Track cash contracts, HTAs, and basis sales
  • Live CBOT futures prices for Corn, Soybeans & Wheat
  • Breakeven calculator with university extension budgets
  • Delta-adjusted futures position tracking (Zaner customers)
  • PDF export for lenders — no credit card required
Grain Marketing Plan — 2026
Priced / Hedged
67%
Revenue Locked
$412K
Avg Price
$4.87
Corn
72%
Soybeans
58%
Wheat
45%
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The only place to get Karen Braun's unique analysis on the ag markets. Data-based commentary to unlock what's truly important — helping readers understand the "why & how" in whatever hot topic is driving the markets.

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About Zaner

Built by veterans. Trusted by producers.

The Zaner Ag Hedge Group was formed by a team of industry veterans to provide professional risk management strategy for the agricultural supply chain. Zaner Ag's strategists have countless years of experience in providing professional advice and brokerage services — providing unique market insights that comes from the fields and not just screens.

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Client Testimonials

What Do Clients Say?

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Working with Zaner Ag Hedge has been a great experience. They really took the time to get to know me and my business before creating a customized strategy for my farm. In addition, they worked with me throughout the year, updating their strategy as markets changed. Their commitment to my operational success was apparent. They walk the talk of 'boots in the dirt' to protect farm operations.

Joseph McCartney
Westfield Farms

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