FCStone, LLC offers comprehensive risk-management and margin hedging programs and services to dairy producers, processors, traders and end-users.  

The firm’s experienced dairy-industry consultants provide its clients with full-service brokerage services at competitive commission rates, along with in-depth, one-on-one market analysis, forecasts, and advice.

Calling upon our decades of industry experience, FCStone’s consultants help a wide range of dairy-industry participants protect against the risk of price fluctuations in dairy products and in inputs (including grains and energy products), using a combination of exchange-traded futures and options, proprietary OTC trading tools, and cash-market instruments.

FCStone’s clients have access to the complete range of exchange-traded risk-management products offered by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). These include futures and options on futures covering Class III milk, Class IV milk, nonfat dry milk, butter, cash-settled butter and dry whey.

Clients also have access to eDairy, FCStone’s comprehensive online news, analysis and information service.

In addition to its brokerage, online information, and consulting services, the firm also sponsors the INTL FCStone Outlook Conference, the dairy industry’s premier annual gathering for industry analysis and forecasting.  The conference, which examines the supply-and-demand situation and price outlook for dairy, grains, meat, energy products, and other commodities, is held every year in Chicago. 

Together, these products and services help food and dairy industry participants evaluate and manage the risk of fluctuating prices, do a better job of managing budgets and margins, and protect bottom lines.  In today’s volatile and uncertain dairy environment, FCStone’s industry expertise and risk-management capabilities are more important than ever before. Contact us today.

Dairy customers can Click Here to log into the FCS Online Trading Environment.

OTC products are offered through INTL Hanley, LLC