CHICAGO and CHEVY CHASE,
Md., July 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives
marketplace, and 4-H, the nation's largest youth development
organization delivered by America's Cooperative Extension System,
have announced the seventh year of their partnership to bring the
award-winning Commodity Carnival experience to more than 120 state
and county fairs across the Midwest this fair season.
The highly engaging experience will tour approximately 120 fairs
across nine states, helping young players to learn the basics of
risk management in agriculture. The mobile companion app, Risk
Ranch, is available across multiple platforms for those unable to
participate in person at one of the participating fairs.
"Agriculture has been a vital part of CME Group's business for
more than 170 years," said Tim
Andriesen, CME Group Managing Director of Agricultural
Products. "Working with National 4-H Council, we've reached over
400,000 youth across the country with the Commodity Carnival
experience in the last six years. We look forward to supporting the
program again this year to educate the next generation of farmers,
ranchers and business leaders about the role of risk management in
production agriculture."
"We are so pleased to continue our partnership with CME Group
and help prepare today's youth with skills they need to be
successful in the future," said National 4-H Council President and
CEO Jennifer Sirangelo. "The focus
and purpose of the Commodity Carnival is to bolster our collective
efforts to increase agricultural literacy and highlight the
important role of agriculture commodities. Students get to take
part in an interactive, hands-on experience that allows them to
learn-by-doing."
Commodity Carnival is an interactive learning activity that
guides participants through the process of growing a steer and
selling it at market. The game aims to build greater agricultural
literacy and awareness of the risks farmers face in bringing food
to market. Beyond the fairgrounds, students can also participate
through the mobile companion app, Risk Ranch.
CME Group and 4-H first collaborated in 2013, driven by the same
mission to prepare future generations of farmers and food producers
with respect to risk management in agriculture. To find a list
of participating fairs that will be hosting Commodity Carnival this
summer and fall, visit www.cmegroup.com/4hcarnival.
About CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading
central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range
of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the
entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and
reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing
services through Traiana.
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About 4-H
4-H, the nation's largest youth development organization, grows
confident young people who are empowered for life today and
prepared for career tomorrow. 4-H programs empower nearly six
million young people across the U.S. through experiences that
develop critical life skills. 4-H is the youth development program
of our nation's Cooperative Extension System and USDA, and serves
every county and parish in the U.S. through a network of 110 public
universities and more than 3000 local Extension offices. Globally,
4-H collaborates with independent programs to empower one million
youth in 50 countries. The research-backed 4-H experience grows
young people who are four times more likely to contribute to their
communities; two times more likely to make healthier choices; two
times more likely to be civically active; and two times more likely
to participate in STEM programs.
Learn more about 4-H at www.4-h.org, find us on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/4-H and on Twitter
at https://twitter.com/4H.
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