If any of you are playing marketocracy, you might like this trading simulator, too.
If you win, they let you use this combine for 100 hours.
My father used to be a cotton farmer along with some corn and soybeans thrown in for good measure.
Years ago, he bought some software from FarmWorks that allowed us to digitize aerial maps and keep track of everything.
Today I got an email from the Farm Works folks about a newsletter.
So, I clicked it.
The newsletter featured the online simulator MarketMaxx.
Play this corn and soybean grain marketing game and you could be a big winner – in more ways than one. Learn how to develop a marketing plan, make fantasy grain trades and get expert advice from commodity gurus. There’s nothing to lose and plenty to gain. For details on how to begin your virtual marketing experience, click here for a complete tutorial.
Fantasy trade 100,000 bu. of Corn; 50,000 bu. of Soybeans
I can’t make the tutorial work.
On the serious side, if gives you insight into how difficult and risky farming can be.
You do this wrong in the real world and your entire livelihood is on the auction block.
