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New Ness School Minor

New Ness School Minor

Commodity Risk Management Minor

Commodity Risk Management is a new minor in the Ness School of Management and Economics. This minor focuses on skills like hedging techniques, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, price forecasting and risk analysis. During classes for this minor students will get to use the First Dakota National Bank e-Trading Lab to learn about risk management and manage agricultural commodities in real life situations. These skills are useful to agricultural producers and producers and industry partners like brokers, bankers, insurance agents, input suppliers, buyers, etc. This minor can also benefit graduates going into agribusiness that are interested in controlling costs and pricing byproducts.

Courses offered for this program are on campus and limited online coursework that is usually during the summer.