Our Mission Energy is a commodity, like beans or corn. Its price fluctuates, based on worldwide supply and demand, transportation, weather, and a number of governmental programs, restrictions, and activities. In the '90s, this commodity is extremely volatile. Farmers Commodities Corporation, energy group, Penterra, serves the needs of its cooperative and commercial customers in this volatile area, applying proven marketing and hedging strategies and solid commodity risk management concepts to this product. The company serves fuel refiners, wholesalers, jobbers, retailers, transportation companies, convenience store chains, farm cooperatives, fleet operators, and other industries in which energy is an important component.
Energy is the largest volume commodity traded in the world, and is also the most volatile.
Much of Penterra's growth may be attributed to the company's unique risk management services, featuring programs that offer clearly defined, individually tailored, professional energy hedging. The company serves a variety of industry segments and has developed a number of unique service packages to correspond to the somewhat distinct needs of those various customers. Programs for energy marketers serve the needs of refiners, wholesalers, jobbers and retailers and include specially developed strategies for C-stores, independent retailers and cooperative outlets. Additional programs are designed to suit the needs of transportation companies, including railroads, trucking firms, barge companies, and airlines. Yet other programs focus on risk management for fleet operators and construction firms.