Ceres Farms Inc.

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Ceres Farms Inc.

• Business Plan Presentation

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Group members

• Adam Edward Dennis
• Boyd Carl Bergstrom
• Ryan William Mahussier
• Ryan Sutton Stokes

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Industry Overview

• extensive technological changes
• Increasing farm size
• diversified crops
• Direct seeding, zero tillage and chemical fallow
• Highly Competitive

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Mission Statement

• Ceres Farms Inc. will capitalize on economics of
  size and innovative management techniques to
  generate a greater profit from farming than the
  current competition.

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Operations
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Introduction

• Farming 20,000ac of rented land
• 2 areas of Saskatchewan
• One set of equipment
• Economies of Size

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Land

• purchase one quarter in each area
• Rest is rented
• Rent paid 50 at seeding 50 after harvest
• 5 year lease agreements
• Land taxes paid by owners

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Aneroid
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Equipment Leased for Operations
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Equipment Purchased for Operations
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Cropping plan

• Aneroid
• 3200 acres of lentils (Laird)
• 3200 acres of durum (Kyle)
• 3200 acres of chemical fallow
• Melfort
• 2560 acres of canola (LG3235)
• 2560 acres of peas (Carneval)
• 2560 acres of spring wheat (Splendor)
• 2560 acres of malt barley (Stein)

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Human Resources
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Organization Structure
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Job Descriptions

• Office Manager
• Operations Manager
• 2 Full Time Labourers
• Part Time Labourers

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Human Resources Budget
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Marketing
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Pricing

• Price takers
• Near perfect competition
• Homogeneous products
• Buyer Competition
• competition among grain buyers for our large
  volume of products
• basis incentives
• premium grades
• trucking incentives

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SWP Patterson Pioneer UGG
Williamson Seeds
Natekea Pulse Processing
Pioneer
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SWP Louis Dreyfus UGG Cargill Pioneer Phillips
Seeds Walker Seeds
SWP Pioneer Cargill Neighbour Seeds
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HRSW

• CWB
• Wheat futures on CBOT
• Deliver to flour mills for a premium

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Barley

• CWB
• Sell domestically for feed
• Barley futures on WCE

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Durum

• CWB
• Durum futures on MGE
• Deliver to pasta plants for a premium

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Lentils

• Sell or contract to processor
• Pooled contract

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Canola

• Basis contracts, minimum price contracts,
  deferred price contracts, cash contracts
• Futures on WCE
• Proxy Hedge

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Peas

• Sell or contract to Processor
• Pooled contract
• Proxy Hedge

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Marketing Budget
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Financial
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Financial Ratios