Dairy Risk Management

Dairy & Livestock Insurance Experts

We support dairy producers with tailored risk management strategies and tools to protect your margins across milk, feed, and livestock markets. Whether you're a small family farm or a large-scale operation, our solutions are built to support your long-term sustainability.

Dairy Insurance Solutions

Safeguard your dairy operation with a suite of government-subsidized insurance products designed to mitigate price risks. Our flexible coverage options help you manage uncertainty and plan with confidence.

Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP)

  • Protects against declining milk prices
  • Establishes a price “floor” for your milk revenue
  • Backed by federal subsidies to reduce premium costs

Livestock Risk Protection (LRP)

  • Protects against declining cattle market prices
  • Allows you to set price floors on day-old beef cross calves as well as cull cows
  • Federally subsidized to lower producer costs

Livestock Gross Margin (LGM)

  • Protects milk over feed margin
  • Hedges Class III milk price along with corn and soybean meal costs
  • Federally subsidized to lower producer costs

Additional Crop Insurance Products

  • Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) and Annual Forage Insurance: Protects against rainfall shortfalls
  • Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI): Broad protection for crop yield and revenue losses

Commodity Hedging
Solutions

Our experienced team provides customized hedging strategies and brokerage services to help you manage price risk and secure your margins. We work closely with producers to develop market-based solutions that align with your operational goals.
Milk and Dairy Commodities
Milk and Dairy Commodities
Futures and options strategies to stabilize milk revenue
Feed Commodities
Feed Commodities
Manage input costs for corn, soybean meal, and other feed components
Cattle
Cattle
Risk management tools for feeder and fed cattle markets
Energy
Energy
Hedge fuel and energy costs to protect your bottom line

Our Services

The HTS Commodities Division was organized to provide our clients with access to high quality, independent financial products and services over a wide range of business interests. Whether acting as our clients’ advisor or broker, HTS Commodities is always impartial to a specific product, bank or provider.

Hedging Advisory

As an NFA Commodity Trading Advisor and Swap Firm, HTS Commodities can assist its clients in all aspects of implementing a robust hedging program. Our comprehensive services cover all aspects of initial program development, including program feasibility analysis, document negotiation, and counterparty/FCM selection.  Implementation services include trade solicitation, pre-pricing/pricing, and providing fair value opinions, to name a few.

Execution

In addition to acting as an advisor for hedging transactions, HTS Commodities specializes in acting as an Introducing Broker for the execution of our clients’ futures, options and over-the-counter derivative positions.  Because we are independent of any FCM or provider, our clients have the opportunity to trade through any of our multiple FCM or provider relationships.

Investment Solutions

Beyond assisting our clients hedging actual or expected assets, liabilities or other positions, HTS Commodities can help in finding and executing suitable futures, options or over-the-counter strategies meant to enhance and/or diversify qualified clients’ investment portfolios.

Market Insights

HTS Commodities is a leading commodities firm and investment bank, with insights and market intelligence that span a wide range of industry sectors and financial products. Our team of highly experienced advisors, brokers, and strategists ensure that our clients have access to real-time market information, our in-depth global and regional opinions, and technical analysis and the most current trade ideas.

Financial Products & Structuring

As a leading investment bank, HTS Commodities has extensive experience in advising on and brokering structured financial products solutions that can provide enhanced, multi-asset-type performance to our clients.  Available strategies include a wide variety of “off-the-shelf” products or can be customized to meet an investor’s goals.

Training & Education

A robust hedging or investment program starts with a full understanding of the benefits and risks of available strategies. HTS Commodities has a long history of educating our clients, governing bodies and other financial decision makers about all important aspects of transacting in futures, options and OTC derivatives.

Post-Trade Maintenance

HTS Commodities provides clients with the necessary tools to track and report their commodities hedging and investment activities after trade execution, including mark-to-market (valuation), hedge accounting, hedge/investment performance analysis, and OTC payment verification services, to name a few.

Products

Because HTS Commodities is not limited to one specific product and not tied to any one particular provider, we can always offer you the product that best fits your needs.  Investors and hedgers have access to a range or products related to equity indexes, energy, metals, interest rates, agriculture and currency.

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Listed Options & Futures

Standardized, transparent & liquid contracts traded on multiple exchanges across the world.

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OTC

Highly customizable bilateral transactions offering bespoke terms and packaged strategies.

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Block Trades & Cleared Products

Ideal for large negotiated & bilateral transactions, yet requiring central clearing.

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Structured Notes

Hybrid securities combining a bond wrapper and a single- or multi-asset derivative component.

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Commodity-Related Securities

Indirect & diversified commodity exposure through vast amount of standard securities.

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Commodity Indices

Alternative tools for broad commodities exposure, ranging from passive to more dynamic management approaches.

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