"Put some target prices up there. Put your pie-in-the-sky prices up there. Put a few historical prices up there. Figure out what it is you want that bushel of grain to do for you," he says. AVOID THE TRAPS Once you know your price targets, stick to them. Sanderson says farmers often get caught in a trap: As commodity prices move higher, so do farmers' price targets. Then, the market reverses, and those farmers missed an opportunity for profitable sales.