Study Group: Fertilizers Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 151
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President
Premier Financial Consulting Group
Gary Castellaw is the President of Premier Financial Consulting Group, an international firm providing services and consulting. The firm specializes in the industrial and agricultural chemicals, fertilizer, seed, biofuels, and equipment industries. Formerly, Mr. Castellaw was Director of Planning and...
Philip CorzineFounder and General Manager
South American Soy LLC
Philip Corzine is the Owner and Operator of Phil Corzine Farms. Mr. Corzine is also Founder and Consultant at AgPage International Consultancy, providing electronic communications, and agricultural business development and economic analysis services to small businesses and organizations. He also consults...
Gary DrimmerPresident
Drimmer & Associates International
Gary Drimmer is the President of Drimmer and Associates; a commodity, animal nutrition, plant biotechnology, and international business consulting firm. Mr. Drimmer has more than 30 years of international business experience in plant biotechnology, corn and flour milling, soybean processing, animal...
Joe VictorVice President/Marketing
Allendale Inc
Joe Victor is Vice President of Market Research at Allendale, one of the largest commodity research advisory firms in Mid-America and one of the brokerage firms that develops its own research. Mr. Victor is responsible for conducting research on grains and livestock in order to provide the worldwide...
David AsbridgeBusiness Development Manager and Economist
Doane Advisory Services
David Asbridge is the Business Development Manager and Senior Economist at Doane Advisory Services. Mr. Asbridge has 30 years of experience in analyzing the US and world agricultural & fertilizer situations from the production and consumption side of industries. Prior, he was a Manager of Agri-business...
Owner
Scattered Acres Farm
Kenneth Dalenberg is the Owner of Scattered Acres Farm. Mr. Dalenberg is responsible for managing cultivation of corn and soybeans. He has more than 31 years of experience in conducting research on fertility, seed, and chemicals with private companies and University of Illinois. Mr. Dalenberg also has...
Agronomy Manager
Western Iowa Cooperative
Kurt Ross is the Agronomy Manager at Western Iowa Cooperative. Kurt began his career in retail agronomy sales with Swiss Valley Farms, where he was the Regional Agronomy Manager. He then became General Manager of the co-ops in Gilman and Ellsworth, Iowa. In 1997, Kurt began to work for Western Iowa...
Partner
BOOK HILL PARTNERS
Eric Vaughn is a Partner at Book Hill Partners in Washington, DC, where he specializes in energy policy, environmental regulations, value-added agriculture, and trade policy issues. He has more than 25 years of technical, financial, legal, and political experience with the production, blending, delivery...
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GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Experts(?)
Changes in the ethanol production subsidy and import tariff would be an excellent way to moderate the increases in the short-term price of corn, easing the pain for the US livestock industry. But any change in these policies will have long term impacts on the biofuels sector. These changes...
Brazil has made requests directly to President Bush (on his trip to Brazil last year) to remove the tariff. Won't happen. Of the 177 US ethanol plants now operating or nearing completion, the vast majority are farmer coop owned. The high price of corn (inputs) makes the crush spread...
Less than normal quarterly use of wheat builds US ending stocks however record quarterly use of US soybean and corn is expected to continue to keep at the knifes edge.
An over-emphasis on ethanol has combined with a poor production year and a major speculative push on commodity prices to push livestock net returns into the red. Animal feed has long been US corn and soybeans primary source of demand, but high feed costs, with no way to push up the selling price...
Just like this time last year, traders in Chicago may believe that Brazilian farmers are poised to significantly expand soybean acreage, as they have moved prices above $15 per bushel. However, just as they misjudged them last year, they may be doing it again, as fertilizer prices have doubled,...
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