Customized strategy
Exact recommendations shaped around your operation, your goals, and the market.
Grain marketing, built around your operation
A proactive plan for markets that never sit still.
JP2 combines customized farm marketing advice, disciplined execution, and constant position monitoring—so you can protect profitable levels while keeping intelligent upside in play.
InteractiveAg
Your operation. One clear view.
Market snapshot
Daily commentary and market movement at a glance.
2026 corn plan
42%
priced to target
Positions monitored
Your JP2 team
Advice and answers, close at hand
Disciplined execution
We identify profitable levels, research the best markets for your operation and help execute.
Constant visibility
Your positions, plan, and JP2 market commentary stay accessible through InteractiveAg.
One plan. The full picture.
More than market calls. A marketing process built for your farm.
Every operation has different storage, cash-flow, crop-insurance, basis, and risk considerations. JP2 connects them into one disciplined plan—and stays involved as the market changes.
Customized recommendations
Specific, exact opportunities aligned with your costs, goals, and comfort with risk.
Futures and upside strategy
Protect profitable levels, then use intelligent tools to preserve participation where appropriate.
Cash, basis and logistics
Experience spanning basis, storage, grain movement, and cash-market execution.
Crop insurance in context
Coordinate crop insurance with the marketing plan instead of treating it as a separate decision.
InteractiveAg access
Your market information and personal plan—always within reach.
JP2 clients receive custom market commentary through InteractiveAg, alongside a clear view of their positions and marketing plan. The result is easier collaboration and fewer missed opportunities.
See your farm’s marketing plan and position status
Read JP2 market commentary built for active decisions
Stay connected to the advisors monitoring your plan
My marketing plan
2026 crop overview
Corn42% priced
Soybeans35% priced
Wheat68% priced
New JP2 market note
Today’s market context and plan considerations
A collaborative approach
You stay involved. We keep the plan moving.
Understand the operation
We learn your production, storage, goals, risk tolerance, and current positions.
Build the plan
Your JP2 team creates exact recommendations around profitable opportunities.
Decide together
You review each opportunity and sign off before execution.
Monitor and adapt
We track positions and markets, then keep your plan clear in InteractiveAg.
Experience across the grain chain
A team that understands both the farm and the market.
Our backgrounds span production agriculture, origination, merchandising, futures and options, basis, grain logistics, elevator management, ethanol, and crop insurance. That complementary experience is what makes the JP2 team approach work.
Jim Prough
Founder
Indiana farm roots, Purdue Ag Economics, and 28 years across grain origination, trading, and ethanol management. Jim brings deep expertise in basis, crop insurance, and practical plan execution.
Jeff Fichtelman
Grain Marketing Advisor
A Finance and Economics graduate with futures and options trading experience at The Andersons and CGB. Jeff focuses on what moves futures markets and how to position intelligently.
Tara Deines
Grain Marketing Advisor
Purdue and Kansas State graduate with extensive grain merchandising and high-touch farm marketing experience at The Andersons and CGB across the Ohio Valley.
Austin Chester
Grain Marketing Advisor
Raised on an Ohio row-crop and cattle farm, Austin spent nine years in farm-direct originations, elevator management, and cash grain trading across Indiana.
Nick Schuerman
Grain Marketing Advisor
Raised on a Northwest Ohio corn and soybean farm, Nick pairs an economics background with hands-on merchandising and risk-management experience.
JP2 Network of Farmers
Better decisions grow from better conversations.
Exclusive to JP2 Marketing clients, our farmer network gathers in Indianapolis each January to learn from the past year, hear respected industry speakers, build a detailed plan for the year ahead, and learn from peers. Every other August, clients are invited to Montana for a few memorable days of learning and connection.
Start the conversation
Bring us a question. We’ll start by listening.
Tell us what you are working through—whether it is a specific grain-marketing question or a broader need for a proactive, collaborative process. We will reach out to learn more and discuss an initial consultation.