Commodity and Ingredient Hedging Now Offers CPE Credits.

CHICAGO -- Commodity and Ingredient Hedging, LLC (CIH), the purveyor of customized price management consulting and educational services, today announced that all of their educational seminars qualify attendees to receive accounting CPE credits through the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA).

CIH's upcoming "Managing Prices for Optimal Crop Returns" seminar is designed to help crop producers develop a marketing edge for their operation by managing their profit margin. Appropriate for all experience levels, this comprehensive two-day seminar includes everything from a fundamental background of the futures market (including terminology, order flow and margining topics) to position structure and management. It will also cover both futures and options combinations that allow complete flexibility to optimize producers' profit margins.

A tour of the CME Group's trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade Building is included to help reinforce the knowledge of why the markets exist and how they function, while an online price management simulation ties together the hedging concepts learned throughout the program.

CIH will hold their "Managing Prices for Optimal Crop Returns" seminar January 21 and 22, 2009 at their downtown Chicago offices, located at 175 W. Jackson Blvd. Crop producers are strongly encouraged to attend. For more information or to enroll, visit www.cihedging.com/education.

About Commodity and Ingredient Hedging

Commodity & Ingredient Hedging, LLC is a full service agricultural commodity price management company, headquartered in Chicago's Loop financial district. CIH works with over 200 domestic and international clients that produce, trade, consume, or import agricultural commodities. CIH consultants have various risk management backgrounds including Fortune 500 company procurement, grain merchandising, livestock marketing, commodity market analysis, and trading.

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