Dairy Futures & Markets

Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
On-line Teaching Tools: Building Blocks for Futures & Options. A series of correspondence courses on how to use the markets.
Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Agricultural Advisory Committee : The objectives and scope of activities of the Agricultural Advisory Committee shall be to conduct public meetings and submit reports and recommendations on issues affecting agricultural producers, processors, and lenders and others interested in or affected by the agricultural commodities markets, and to facilitate communications between the Commission and the diverse agricultural and agriculture-related organizations represented on the committee.
Dairy Futures Information Homepage, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics & Center for Dairy Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This page contains historical data files on cash, futures and options prices for BFP, Butter, Cheddar Cheese, Milk and NFDM. The data is for the contracts traded on the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Inc. , New York. All data files can be viewed in the ASCII format and can be downloaded in a choice of ASCII, EXCEL, LOTUS 1-2-3 and Quattro Pro formats.
Dairy Producer's Play Book for Marketing Tools: patterned after basic milk marketing strategies. For each strategy, the spreadsheets will calculate a net price that the producer would receive over a range of BFP prices.
Dairy Outlook
Ken Bailey, University of Missouri has put together monthly commentaries on Dairy Outlook and Futures. He also has links for many sites for Milk Prices, Production Tables and Forecast of US Milk Supply, Uses and Prices
 Hedging Opportunities in the BFP Milk Futures Market, Russell Kiecker, Spooner Research Station, has provided a chart and data to help area dairy producers make a decision to lock in ,"hedge", a future price for their milk.