AgYield, an agricultural risk management consulting firm based in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, has utilized its in-house proprietary software to develop the AgYield Simulator.

The simulator, first released in March 2015, is a web-based software program that takes students/participants through a simulated growing season so they can develop and manage their own risk management strategy in the face of changing grain prices and basis levels and weather.

According to Chris Beavers, business developer at AgYield, the simulator is the most realistic representation of what growers in the real world face every day in terms of...