About CHS
CHS is a global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States. Diversified in energy, agronomy, grains and foods, we’re committed to creating connections to empower agriculture, helping our owners and customers grow their businesses.
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CHS offers a breadth of products and services to support our owners and customers every step of the way. Our practical solutions, local expertise and global connections give our farmer-owners and local cooperatives competitive advantages to reach their goals.
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CHS is committed to making a meaningful impact in agriculture and rural America. Through our stewardship initiatives, we invest in programs that develop new generations of ag leaders, promote ag safety and strengthen hometown communities.
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Cooperative value
Cooperatives are owned and governed by members who use its products, supplies, or services and operate in many sectors of the economy. In a cooperative system, people come together to scale buying power, gain access to goods and services and create economic opportunity.
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At CHS, our teams work together to provide the products, services and expertise farmers and cooperatives need to feed a growing population. As a CHS employee, you help empower agriculture by creating connections that bring shared success.
Transparency with fuel pricing
A Cenex-branded fuel truck delivers fuel to a farm.
Knowing when it’s the right time to fill your fuel tank to get the best price can be complicated. Cooperative energy experts are dialed in on energy markets and how market dynamics impact fuel price direction, but translating that information into a purchasing strategy for a producer is complex.
Enter Market Sight, developed by CHS Refined Fuels, which helps fuel buyers make more informed local purchasing decisions. The first-of-its-kind tool enables co-op fuel suppliers to leverage and aggregate local pricing information, such as freight, margin and taxes, to the market or pricing information they receive from CHS for Cenex® branded fuel.
Cooperatives can then use forward-pricing visual tools to illustrate a range of scenarios to help their customers understand how broader market factors are impacting local prices.
“Market Sight fills a gap for our customers,” says Matt Mlynarczyk, senior account manager, CHS Refined Fuels. “In the past, a local cooperative would get visual market or pricing information from CHS, but didn’t have a nearly real-time analytical tool to relate that information to their customers to help inform fuel purchasing decisions.”
Fuel buyers can see both historical local fuel prices and forward contract prices. “This tool allows our customers to use the data to fit their needs. A cooperative energy specialist can look at fuel prices at the terminal and set the price based on specifications for their location or market,” he says. ”Working with their cooperative, farmers can use Market Sight to make data-driven, informed purchasing decisions based on their local market conditions.”