Al Kluis has been a commodity advisor and broker since 1976. He is president and managing partner of Kluis Commodities in Wayzata, Minnesota. Al is an approved Cargill Pro-Pricing Grain manager and is an introducing broker with R.J. O’Brien. Al provides marketing information and advice to farmers in 22 states and six countries.
Al is also a writer. His column, Your Profit, appears in every issue of Successful Farming magazine. Before that he was a contributing editor at Corn and Soybean Digest for 13 years; the magazine featured his Marketing Strategies column in every issue. Al has had two books on commodities trading published (his co-author on the first book, Loren Kruse, is now Editor-in-Chief of Successful Farming magazine) and is commonly quoted in major publications including the Wall Street Journal. He is a featured speaker at commodity conferences nationwide and is a frequent market analyst for the Linder Farm Radio News Network. Al is the author of The Al Kluis Report.
Al, a Minnesota farmboy, was awarded his degree in Ag Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1974, after which he was executive director of the Minnesota Soybean Association before entering the markets full-time.