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John DePape

John DePape

Commodity trader and grain market educator; founder of The Trading Floor and Advanced Grain Pricing Program

Jun 2, 2026

11:02
But, uh, wh- where do you wanna go? Where do you wanna start?
11:05
Well, I, I guess for me, I guess Patterson is one, and I'm told there's another company that, that sets it, or wheat that way as well.
11:13
But most of them, um, do it like they've done it in Eastern Canada on wheat, beans, corn forever.
11:21
And from my experience and, um, it's, it's really a foreign exchange management issue when it comes down to it.
11:29
The, the, the net price is still the same.
11:32
You can...
11:33
And I do this on, on, um, on, um, my opta trading floor.

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23:34
Yeah.
18:52
Why are you passionate about this? What does this mean? What have you seen? How- what does this go back to, and what do we do about it?
18:58
I just wanna for- uh, okay, thanks, but I wanna go first to this idea of, uh, where do we get transparency.
19:04
Working in this business is like being in a dark room with a candle.
19:10
You can sort of see what's going on, but you really, really don't.
19:13
But, uh, I just wanted to add that to, uh, what Marlene has said.
19:17
But, uh, for me, this goes back to 1984.
19:21
You know, we...

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51:56
Right, right.

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