Suppose you decide to build a house. Would you buy the materials first, or would you draw up the blueprints and then schedule subcontractors and get the materials. In grain merchandising, having a "blueprint" of your facility's logistics is also an important first step. I don't mean literally having a blueprint of the bins or the trackage, but knowing your operation's capacity for throughput — the logistics of when and how much grain you can receive, store, and ship. Trying to merchandise without acurrent blueprint is like building that house without a plan.
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