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Preparations for the conference "Where The Margin Is 2013" continue

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Preparations for the conference continue. Most recent news: KWS, global seeds provider, and Ermak, Russian agricultural commodity trader, have become the sponsors of the conference.

We are specially grateful to those companies, who decided to register even before the publishing any draft agenda and any preliminary list of speakers. Among these companies are Amazone, CenterSoya, Dominant TD, EcoNiva Holding, RZ Agro, Trio-XXI, Fraft Foods Rus, INTL FCStone, Südzucker AG (Mannheim/Ochsenfurt), Maribo, GrainRus, RATUM Law Group, Barry Callebaut NL Russia, Bunge CIS, and other companies.

Among the Conference speakers:

• Daniel Leibfried, Director of Marketing, Global Crop Care Platform, John Deere & Company
• Vladislav Novoselov, Managing Partner, BEFL
• J.B. Penn, Chief economist, John Deere & Co.
• Dmitry Rylko, General director, IKAR
• Bryan Willey, Senior Associate, Food and Agribusiness Research and Advisory, Rabobank International

About our speakers. J. B. Penn is Chief Economist for John Deere & Co. Before joining the company in August 2006, he served as Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services in the United States Department of Agriculture for more than five years. Penn is a native of Arkansas and holds an undergraduate degree from Arkansas State University, M. S. from Louisiana State University and a Ph. D. from Purdue University. He began his career with USDA where he held several increasingly responsible positions including Deputy Administrator for Economics in the Economics and Statistics Service. He also served as Senior Staff Economist in the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Following his work in the federal government, Dr. Penn moved to the private sector for more than two decades. He was a founding principal and president of Economic Perspectives, Inc., a firm of economic and food consultants that was acquired by Sparks Companies, Inc., a larger firm in the same field where he served as Senior Vice President and head of the Washington office from 1988 until 2001. Penn is a member of the Farm Foundation Board of Trustees, the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, the United States Trade Representative’s Africa Trade Advisory Committee and a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.Among the conference speakers.

Over the previous three years, the conference has become the highest caliber event covering the CIS agricultural sector. It features the most qualified speakers, attendance of the highest ranking agribusiness executives, and a large productive capacity (since inception, the «land bank» of attending companies increased from 2.7 to 4.5 MHA of arable land).

This year, our two organizing partners are ASSAGROS (the Union of the Russian agribusiness associations, headed by Mr. Victor Semenov, fmr. Russian agricultural minister, currently Chairman of the Agribusiness Committee of the Russian Chamber for Industry and Trade), and the Russian Sugar Union, one of the most powerful Russian agribusiness associations, headed by Mr. Andrey Bodin.

As in the past, the 2013 conference will feature a timely and intensive agenda, many respected and influential speakers, and the best networking opportunities.

The two lead topics of the 2013 conference are Russian farmland investments and minimal-till and no-till technologies.

For newcomers - the previous conferences archives: http://www.ikar.ru/wherethemarginis/archive/
Conference up-dates: http://www.ikar.ru/wherethemarginis/pr/
Conference participation conditions http://www.ikar.ru/wherethemarginis/rules/
and registration details: http://www.ikar.ru/wherethemarginis/registration/

Materials of the previous conferences 2012, 2011, 2010 see:
• Photo reports 2012, 2011, 2010
• Event activities 2012, 2011, 2010
• Participants 2012, 2011, 2010
• Post-releases 2012, 2011 (*.doc)

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