2025 Soybean and Soybean Meal Procurement Course

Course Details:

Dates: May 12 - 20, 2025
Location: Northern Crops Institute - Fargo, North Dakota, and Vancouver, Kalama, and Aberdeen Washington

Course Overview:

This course focuses on the mechanics of soybean and soybean meal procurement, and is designed to educate individuals who are responsible for purchasing these agricultural commodities. Academic and commodity trading authorities lecture on cash and futures markets, and soybean merchandisers guide you through the full complexity of the international soybean and soybean meal markets. The course provides an overview of the U.S. soybean and soybean meal handling and marketing system and the risk management tools available to assists buyers in purchasing U.S. soybean and soybean meal that meets their quality needs at the best value. This course is led by William Wilson, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, AES Agribusiness and Applied Economics and an expert in commodity futures trading and consultant to the international agricultural commodity and food processing industries.

Daily lectures and exercises will be held both at NCI and in the NDSU Commodity Trading Room, a world-class training facility of the Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU). The high-tech room has 32 computer stations, each with a computer that receives live information feeds for financial information including equities and credit, plus commodity market information such as agriculture, energy and biofuels.

The course will start in Fargo, North Dakota and then travel to the U.S. Pacific Northwest for tours of soybean and soybean meal export facilities.

Objectives:

Learn from experts from both academic and commodity industry professionals on cash and futures markets.
Meet with grain merchandisers and hear of their experiences in dealing with the complexity of the international agricultural commodity markets.
Share day-to-day experiences with colleagues from other countries and U.S. ag commodity merchandisers.
Experience the U.S. grain handling system through tours of a farm, a country elevator, and export terminal.
Participate in trading exercises in the world-class, NDSU Commodity Trading Room.

Who Should Attend?

International soybean and soybean meal buyers associated with private trading companies, soybean processing, feed manufacturing and food processing. Anyone with interest in importing soybean and soybean meal from the United States. This course is designed for participants with an intermediate to advanced level of knowledge and experience.

Registration Information:

• Registration Fee: $2,200
• Registration Deadline: April 15, 2025

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