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November 18, 2009

With fertilizer prices on a veritable roller coaster in the past few years, soaring to historical highs in 2008 only to dramatically drop, managing the risks associated with both fertilizer pricing and availability continue to be of paramount importance at all points along the distribution chain.

Green Markets assembled a distinguished panel of industry experts who discussed a range of methods and strategies to help you manage risk in these uncertain and challenging times. In this unique, 90-minute Webinar recording, you’ll hear from three risk management specialists, plus get answers to your toughest questions in the Q & A session following the discussion.

What Was Covered:

How to manage business risk during and unprecedented, volatile period in the fertilizer industry
Futures recommendations
Cost control practices
Tools and strategies to help you mitigate pricing and supply uncertainties

Who Attended:

Fertilizer manufacturer executives
Fertilizer product managers and sales executives
Fertilizer plant managers
Fertilizer strategic planners
Fertilizer dealers, traders and purchasing and supply chain managers
Fertilizer transportation professionals
Investment bankers and financial and market analysts tracking the fertilizer industry
Journalists on the fertilizer beat

About the Speakers:

Bruce Vernon, Vice President, Fertilizer, Viterra Inc.’s AgriProducts Group - Bruce Vernon is vice president, fertilizer, with Viterra’s AgriProducts Group. Bruce accepted the position with Viterra in September 2009, and is responsible for the company’s global fertilizer portfolio and for developing an overall fertilizer strategy with a focus on market expansion. Bruce has a long history in the fertilizer industry. Prior to joining Viterra, he was manager of sales and marketing for Mid Kansas Cooperative (MKC), a full-service farm co-op with 37 locations and some 7,000 members in central Kansas. Before joining MKC, Bruce was director of crop nutrients marketing and risk management for Agriliance, where he and his team introduced and managed price and supply risk management applications. Prior to joining Agriliance, Bruce was a regional manager for Farmland Industries. He joined Farmland in 1982 and held various sales, marketing and management positions in the company’s business divisions.

Alexey Paliy, Director of Fertilizer Derivatives, Freight Investor Services (FIS) - Alexey joined FIS Ltd in 2006 in London. Prior that he worked for a large commodity brokerage trading European electricity. In 2007 Alexey moved to US to set up the FIS fertilizer desk in New York.

Ryan Sherwood, Price Risk Management Consultant, FCStone - Ryan Sherwood is a Risk Management Consultant with FCStone, LLC in Omaha, Nebraska. He is responsible for bringing risk management solutions to wholesale, warehouse, and end-user companies in the grain, energy and fertilizer industries. FCStone, LLC is a commodity risk management company providing risk management consulting and transaction execution services to commercial commodity intermediaries, end-users and producers.

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A Year After the Crash—Managing Risk in a Volatile Fertilizer Market – Recording Now Available! Audio recording on CD-ROM -- $199