About Our Company

Overview

Ag Hedge Desk provides innovative and simple solutions, leveraging its knowledge and expertise in modeling, efficient execution, and risk management. Ag Hedge Desk designs and manages customer hedging strategies for clients and benefits from our role as a designated market maker/liquidity provider for certain agricultural futures exchange products. CSC Arbitrage Group is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor that is directly connected to exchanges in North America and Europe that offer trading in agricultural markets. Our traders have experience trading in food and agriculture markets that are characterized by lower levels of market liquidity and other potential nuances that require specialized expertise.

Background

Ag Hedge Desk principals have decades of experience in managing risk and trading commodities. This company was formed in 2008 to trade futures and options and develop commercial hedge programs. Kent Horsager serves as president. Mr. Horsager has actively traded in the United States, Canadian, European, Asian, and South American futures and options markets since 1984. After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics in March 1984, Mr. Horsager worked for Cargill, Inc. in the international multi-seed processing group, then went on to earn his Master of Science degree in Agriculture Economics from the University of California, Davis with a focus on futures, options, and hedging.  Mr. Horsager was elected to the board of directors of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange in 1991 and served as its chairman from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Horsager was named president and chief executive officer of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and served in that capacity from June 2000 through July 2005. He has also served on the board of directors and executive committee of the National Futures Association and a number of other industry related boards and committees.

Contact Information

Address

 CSC Arbitrage Group, LLC
2125 E Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413

President

Kent Horsager

612-709-6130

KHorsager@AgHedgeDesk.com

Risk Management Consultant

Justin Siewert

507-884-4854

JSiewert@AgHedgeDesk.com