International Grain Summit

After the success of the previous editions, the International Grain Summit returns on May 17, 2017 at Westin Palace Hotel in Milan. It is the first independent event in Italy for grain companies, food and animal feed industries, both domestic and international. Grain Services - an Italian leader company in the brokerage field of cereal and derived products - will be the curator of the event. IGS 2017 is an opportunity to know and look in more detail the most influential elements about agricommodity and its related industrial fields, such as animal husbandry, biofuels and biotechnologies, milling industry, seed industry, fertilizer industry and agricultural machines. IGS 2017 represents an important chance to define profitable strategies in order to develop both grain and agricultural industries as well as processing and food companies, led by some of the most important figures in the world. Speakers and topics: ANDREA CAGNOLATI - Italy’s role in the international macroeconomic, financial and grain trade. DANIEL BASSE - Global Grain and Oil seed market. The Latest Tendencies. Outlook 2016/2017. CHRISTOPHER HYDE - Global crop impacts induced by weather. CARLO CITRONI - Price risk management on grains: monitoring forward curve evolution to get a clue of changing fundamentals. MARK LINDEMAN - USDA Crop Production Forecasts for Russia and Ukraine for 2017. FABRIZIO FERRINI - First section: the Oil Market; second section: the Us Dollar. The conference is held in Italian and English with simultaneous translations. For info and registration www.internationalgrainsummit.net