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Meats and livestock risk management solutions tailored to your business

StoneX assists clients in improving margins with customizable livestock OTC products, futures/options trading and expert advisory.

Meats & livestock

Explore meats and livestock services

OTC trading

Leverage our meats and livestock OTC trading expertise for customized hedging options tailored to your operation.

Meats and livestock consulting

High-touch consulting and advisory services employing hedging strategies like live cattle futures to mitigate risk and improve margins.

Livestock insurance

Utilize USDA dairy and livestock insurance programs and proven risk management strategies to protect revenue and lock in potential profits.

Meats and livestock market insights

Access key inventory, production and sales and market data, along with critical market insights for the beef and pork markets.

Manage risk. Maximize margins. Outperform.

The livestock and protein industry faces constant price and business margin volatility. StoneX’s Livestock and Meats group has the expertise to help reduce price risk across all segments of the supply chain, from producers and processors to manufacturers and end users.

As a trusted meats and livestock advisor and dedicated partner, we assist you with identifying market exposure, and connect you with tailored financial solutions such as exchange-traded livestock futures/options and OTC products. Our goal is to help you manage meat and livestock commodity price risk, maximize your business strength and outperform the competition.

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Expertise and support for the entire supply chain

At StoneX, we provide high-touch service and expert advisory across the entire meat and livestock supply chain – from production to consumption. Our clients include hog and cattle producers, processors, feed lot operations and packing plants, all the way to restaurants, grocers and retail outlets. Since every client’s needs are different, we tailor our approach based on your unique business requirements and market exposure.

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Protect your profits from egg price surges

For U.S. egg producers, buyers, and food industry participants, StoneX's new Shell Egg Contract offers a robust tool to hedge against market fluctuations, ensuring pricing stability and protecting your profit margins.

Key Benefits:

Price risk management:

Hedge against unpredictable price fluctuations for greater financial stability.

Enhanced pricing transparency:

Access a globally recognized, IOSCO-assured benchmark for clearer pricing insights.

Supply chain stability:

Strengthen operations by integrating a tool that promotes consistency across your supply chain.

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Ready to take control of egg price volatility?

Contact us today to learn more about how our Shell Egg Contract can benefit your business.

Meat buyers and food service operators: Manage risk with customized products

Wholesalers, distributors, food service operators and retail buyers have all faced increased volatility and higher prices in recent years. In many cases, suppliers have shifted the price risk of meats and commodities back onto you, the buyer.

That’s where StoneX comes in. We offer a full suite of meat and livestock swaps that match your company’s specific price risk and have the flexibility to be customized to your needs, including volumes, tenors, settlement styles and more. As one of the first few non-bank swap dealers to offer this product line, we are uniquely positioned to connect you with products tailored to your business.

Some of these livestock products include:

  • Pork carcass cutout
  • Pork bellies
  • Hams
  • Pork and beef trimmings
  • Pork butt primal
  • Pork back ribs

Livestock and meat processors: Manage margin risk with specialized OTC products

Livestock and meat processors face a unique challenge managing margin risk associated with buying inputs and marketing outputs that may not be tradable on a futures exchange. StoneX Markets offers a full suite of OTC products which may match your company’s specific price risk even better than existing standardized livestock futures products. To learn more about how StoneX can help you mitigate price risk and boost margins, contact our team below.

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Meats and Livestock Market Intelligence

Turn information into opportunity with access to key livestock inventory and production data, sales data charts, exclusive markets reports from our analysts and more.

Livestock producers: The expertise and market insights you need to succeed

With extremely volatile margins, cattle, swine and poultry producers need a partner they can count on. StoneX’s livestock and meats experts help bring a more structured process to managing your profit margins.

We specialize in utilizing futures, options and OTC products to mitigate the risk associated with live cattle, feeder cattle, lean hog and many feed ingredients.

Full-service consulting and advisory

Assistance with strategy formation, market recommendations, record keeping and award-winning market intelligence.

Cattle basis swaps

Leverage basis swaps on regional cash cattle markets, offering you a way to manage basis without the disadvantages of a contract direct to the packer.

Farm Advantage mobile app

Essential ag market insights in the palm of your hand. Explore cash bids, premium weather, market intelligence, profit calculators and more.

Cattle and hog crush spreads

Our model uses specific ratios of inputs and outputs to protect your gross margins for your feeding period or production cycle.

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Get the edge you need with Farm Advantage

Essential ag market insights in the palm of your hand. Explore cash bids, premium weather, market intelligence, profit calculators and more.

Brazil Market Intelligence: Livestock

Uncover exclusive Livestock market reports optimized for the Brazilian market. Available in Portuguese.

Our clients

Our Meats and Livestock group specializes in offering customized hedging solutions that best align with your business requirements and contribute to your long-term success.

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Livestock producers

We help cattle, swine and poultry producers manage their profit margins with a comprehensive suite of risk management solutions, including full-service consulting, futures, customized OTC products and more.

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Food & beverage industry

We specialize in offering customized livestock swaps and provide tailored hedging solutions that are pivotal for our food and beverage clients to effectively manage price risk.

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Livestock and meat processors

We help livestock and meat processors who encounter challenges in managing margin risk with customized OTC products that better match your business needs.

Why choose StoneX?

As a Fortune 50 financial services network (NASDAQ: SNEX) with roots in agriculture dating back a century, we deeply understand the needs of our clients – from producers all the way to end users. With a client-first mentality, we make it our priority to know the ins and outs of your business on a personal level and provide customized market solutions and expertise to help you manage volatility, control risk and improve margins.

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Lessons from the Farm: US Food and Dairy

Visit KJA Family Farms with StoneX’s Kyle Schrad, Vice President of Global Dairy and Food Operations, FCM-Division, as he discusses how lessons learned as a boy working on his family farm inform his understanding of how a boots on the ground perspective fosters relationships and trust with his clients.

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Upcoming events

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October

8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar

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StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.

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October

8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar

Webinars

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South America

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Language: Português Brasileiro

StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.

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October

Sugar Breakfast StoneX

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A strategic event that brings together StoneX risk management consultants to foster networking, updates, and planning.

FAQ

StoneX: We open markets

Our market expertise, advanced platforms, global reach, culture of full transparency and commitment to our clients’ success all set us apart in the financial marketplace.

Reach

With access to 40+ derivatives exchanges, 180+ foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and numerous bi-lateral liquidity venues, StoneX’s digital network and deep relationships can take clients anywhere they want to go.

Transparency

As a publicly traded company meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance in the markets we serve; our financials and record of accomplishment are matters of public record. StoneX’s commitment to “doing the right thing over the easy thing” sets us apart in the industry and helps us build respect, client trust and new partnerships.

Expertise

From our proprietary Market Intelligence platform, to “boots on the ground” expertise from award-winning traders and professionals, we connect our clients directly to actionable insights they can use to make more informed decisions and achieve their goals in the global markets.

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StoneX Securities Co., Ltd. (“SSJ”) (Co. Reg. No 010401047199) is regulated by the Japanese Financial Services Agency as a Type-I Financial Instruments Business Operator (Kanto Local Finance Bureau (FIBO)No.291’), is a member of the Financial Futures Association of Japan for dealing and brokering FX and FX Option transactions, and is a member of the Japan Securities Dealers Association for dealing and brokering stock indices and option transactions.