2025 Review: The Agrintel algorithm generates nearly $10 in gains per 100 kg of pork

In 2025, the first full year of using the Agrintel algorithm, members covered for risk management (23% of the group’s pork production, or 160,000 pigs) achieved a gain of $9.83 per 100 kg of pork sold compared to the cash price, in a rising market that is typically more challenging for generating gains through hedging.

The Agrintel platform was developed in close collaboration with Groupe Élément-Terre, a risk management group bringing together around thirty pork producers in Quebec, representing an annual production of approximately 700,000 pigs.

Results that validate our approach

The Agrintel algorithm provides a cutting-edge tool for taking positions in Chicago commodity futures markets, eliminating the impact of human emotional bias in financial decision-making.

The uniqueness of the approach lies in the aggregation concept, which consists of grouping multiple futures contracts linked to the same product in order to calculate feed-cost margins in a holistic, dynamic and continuous way.

More accessible risk management for small producers

This aggregation-based positioning provides producers with unmatched strategic visibility over their markets.

This model is particularly advantageous for smaller producers, who can access futures markets through a group, without having to manage sufficient volumes themselves to justify direct participation on the Chicago exchange.

Agrintel is also developing a positioning approach based on each farm’s own production costs, a complementary but distinct concept from aggregation-based margins.

Growing ambitions

In light of the strong results achieved so far, Agrintel plans to expand its services to beef, poultry and dairy producers, and to develop a pricing tool for cattle similar to what exists for pork.

Past performance is not an indicator of future performance.