KY COMMODITY CONFERENCE
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Dr. Guilherme Anghinoni, commonly referred to as “Big G,” is a soil and plant nutrition specialist based in Brazil. He holds a PhD in Agronomy, and is interested in soil science and especially in soil physics, management and conservation, as well as efficient and sustainable crops production.
Dr. Anghinoni will present a general overview of Brazilian agriculture production regions, production practices, challenges/advantages, markets, and logistics.
There will be ample time for questions and answers following his presentation.
AGENDA All times are CST
7:00 a.m. Early Riser Session with breakfast Dr. Guilherme Anghinoni
8:30 a.m. Registration & Trade Show Opens
9:30 a.m. Marketing Session Bill Biedermann
11:00 a.m. Lunch & Keynote Andrew Pritchard
Remarks from Kentucky Ag Commissioner Jonathan Shell
1:00 p.m. Ky. Soybean Association Annual Meeting
2:00 p.m. Ky. Corn Growers Association Annual Meeting, Council Report
3:00 p.m. Ky. Small Grain Growers Association Annual Meeting, Council Report
3:45 p.m. Deep Dive into Sustainable Aviation Fuel Paul Bertels
6:00 p.m. Grower Appreciation Reception
6:30 p.m. Awards Celebration
Bill Biedermann is a co-founder of AgMarket.Net. He is a well-known speaker, presenter and advisor on commodities. In addition to trading commodities for 40 years of which 5 were in Chicago, he hastestified before Congressional hearings, CFTC hearings, served for the US State Department AID, and has been invited to speak in nearly every corn growing state in the US and Canada. Bill co-founded one of the largest IB Brokerage and Agricultural Economic Research firms in the US.
Bill provides Agricultural research to traders, food companies and producers worldwide as well as executing futures and option orders on all major exchanges.
Bill graduated from Illinois State University with majors in Agricultural Production, Ag Economics and Ag Education and farmed from 1973-1988. Bill and his wife Penny have a passion for youth. They have 3 kids of their own, were very involved with youth ministry for many years. They now reside in TN.
Andrew Pritchard is an operational meteorologist focused on disruptive weather and weather safety, and an award winning weather risk communicator. He helps people make decisions based on weather impacts.
At Nutrien, he focuses on high-impact, disruptive weather events, weather risk mitigation and severe weather safety. As a member of our Atmospheric Sciences team, he works closely with Nutrien’s Safety Health & Environment department, and helped establish and lead Nutrien’s internal Severe Weather Safety and Disaster Response team by providing modern weather safety training, monitoring weather forecast information and issuing critical weather safety bulletins to the Nutrien retail team before severe weather strikes, and facilitating disaster response after a damaging weather event. Finally, he frequently travels and presents to audiences of 50-1,000 people across North America speaking on severe and hazardous weather and mitigating weather risk in production agriculture.
As an independent meteorologist and video journalist, Andrew has spent the last two decades documenting tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms across Tornado Alley.
Paul Bertels is a senior agricultural consultant with Farmgate Insights, LLC. Formerly a VP with National Corn Growers Association, Bertels will speak on all things Sustainable Aviation Fuel.