Kevin McNew, President and Founder

Kevin was raised on a farm in central Oklahoma. He received his Bachelors degree from Oklahoma State University and Masters and PhD from North Carolina State University in economics.

For over a decade, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and Montana State University focusing on commodity markets. He won numerous academic awards over his career for his research and outreach work, and was widely regarded for boiling down complex economic issues in to easy-to-understand concepts for applied life.

His creative interest in localized commodity markets and his passion for applied problem-solving led McNew to found Cash Grain Bids Inc in 1999. It's mission was to be more than data, but a reliable source of unbiased intelligence to commodity traders. McNew has led the development of such feature-rich trading tools as the Optimizer, My Grain Trades, and the latest product GoGrain. These tools provide tens of thousands of users a unique understanding of where and when to buy or sell their commodities, all while keeping users informed of their market positions as volatile commodity prices change.

As an Analyst, McNew's unique commentary on cash markets can be seen weekly on Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters and other publications. He currently serves on CFTC Sub-Committee on Futures Market Convergence issues. In addition, he is a popular speaker at conferences on topics of risk management, bio fuels and new trading techniques.

JC Hoyt, Vice President & Director of Risk Management Services

JC grew up on a farm in Iowa and attained his Bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University College of Agriculture. In his career, he has worked with such agribusiness companies as Pioneer HI-Bred, Harvest States, Koch Industries and Capital Trading Associates. He has worked closely with supplier and producer clients in developing risk management programs.

At Cash Grain Bids, JC is guiding the development of new applications to help producers, merchandisers and end-users successfully manage cash price risk and enhance their overall trading performance and efficiency.

Barry Peterson, Data Manager

Barry has been involved in the telecommunications industry and has strong skills in managing large databases. He holds a BS degree from Iowa State and manages our data quality and control procedures.

Mike Archer, IT Analyst

Mike grew up in Bozeman and received his Bachelors degree in Economics from Montana State University. Mike is in charge of programming and maintaining various aspects of the Cash Grain Bids and Go Grain websites as well as the administration of local and off-site computer networks.

Data Entry Team

Can you imagine trying to enter more than 50,000 prices everyday in a 3-hour period from a litany of faxes, emails, phone calls and websites? We can’t either. That’s why we have the best staff of qualified data entry specialists that do this everyday (you should see their fingers fly!). Our staff includes Courtney Holmberg, Jeff Pipkin, Samantha Breeden, Amy Nichols, Colter DeVries, Chase Anders, Marsha Dighans, Brock Schimbeno, Bryce Burns, Michael Lyons and David Swedman .