THE TRADE RULES SEMINAR IS BACK!
Dates: May 3 – 4, 2022
Location: Hilton Kansas City Airport
NGFA’s Trading, Trade Rules and Arbitration Seminar is a biennial seminar that provides attendees with a primer on contracting principles and trading practices to minimize costly trade disputes and contract non-performance.
Designed for those involved in trading operations or responsible for merchandising grains, feed and feed ingredients, everyone involved in contract execution should attend the seminar.
The NGFA Trading, Trade Rules and Arbitration Seminar uses extensive case studies to provide a working knowledge of trade and contracting principles and includes sessions on:
- Trade rules application, including the grain, feed, barge, secondary rail freight and barge freight trade rules
- An attorney-led panel discussion on the legal principles of commercial and producer contracting and trading
- Laws and standards applicable to grain and feed transactions
- A primer on NGFA Arbitration including avoiding disputes and use of arbitration when necessary
The NGFA trade rules govern all financial, mercantile and commercial transactions involving grain. They are dynamic and responsive to current business practices. And they are maintained solely by NGFA.
Register today to make sure you and those at your company involved in trade operations or responsible for merchandising grains learn how to apply the NGFA trade rules to minimize costly trade disputes and contract non-performance.
2022 SEMINAR AGENDA
* Program schedule is approximate and subject to changes.
Tuesday May 3, 2022
2:00 p.m.
Registration Opens
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Welcome & Introductions; Attendee Group Case Study Assignments
Dean O’Harris, Trader & Business Development, Great Lakes Grain & Transportation, LLC and Chair, NGFA Trade Rules Committee
Michael J. Seyfert, President and CEO, NGFA
Charlie Delacruz, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, NGFA
Session I – NGFA Arbitration
Simon “Chip” Buckner, Corporate Counsel, Bartlett and Company Chair, NGFA Legal Council
Charlie Delacruz, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, NGFA
Mary Hitchcock, Director, Commercial/Arbitration Services & Project Mgt., NGFA
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Networking Reception
Wednesday May 4, 2022
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Session II – Grain Trade Rules/Rail Freight Trading Rules
Ryan Warner, Rail Trading Group Manager, Consolidated Grain and Barge
Chair, NGFA Grain Trade Rules Subcommittee; NGFA Rail Arbitration Rules Committee; Chair, Secondary Rail Freight Trading Rules Task Force
Tom Bright, Grain Merchandising, Producer AG
NGFA Grain Trade Rules Subcommittee; Secondary Rail Freight Trading Rules Task Force
Kayla Burkhart, General Manager, Dakota Midland Grain LLC
NGFA Grain Trade Rules Subcommittee; NGFA Board of Directors
Joe Taft, Senior Export Trader, The DeLong Company
NGFA Grain Trade Rules Subcommittee; Chair, Container Trading Rules Task Force
9:00 a.m.
Session III – Feed Trade Rules
John Augspurger, Vice President of Fulfillment, Livestock Nutrition Center
Chair, NGFA Feed Trade Rules Subcommittee
Sean Broderick, DDGS Marketing, CHS Inc.
NGFA Feed Trade Rules Subcommittee; NGFA Arbitration Appeals Panel
Edmund Hall, President, Harris-Crane Inc.
NGFA Feed Trade Rules Subcommittee
10:15 a.m.
Mid-Morning Break
10:30 a.m.
Session IV – The Barge Trade: Barge Trade and Barge Freight Trading Rules; Barge Digital Transformation Platform
Danny Andersen, Barge Freight Trading Manager, Cargill Inc.
Brittany Batz, Director of Product, Demeter Logistics
NGFA Barge Freight Trading Rules Subcommittee; Project Manager, NGFDS;
Chair, BDT Trading Rules Task Force
Steve Lucas, President, Jayhawker Consulting Co., LLC
Chair, NGFA Barge Trade Rules Subcommittee
11:30 a.m.
Session V – Case Studies Presentation and Working Lunch
Steve Lucas, President, Jayhawker Consulting Co., LLC
Chair, NGFA Barge Trade Rules Subcommittee
1:30 p.m.
Discussion of Case Studies
3:10 p.m.
Mid-Afternoon Break
3:25 p.m.
Session VI – Legal Principles for Contracting and Trading
Simon “Chip” Buckner, Corporate Counsel, Bartlett and Company
Chair, NGFA Legal Council
David Barrett, Jr., Managing Partner, Barrett, Easterday, Cunningham & Eselgroth LLP
Jacob Bylund, Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
5:00 p.m.
Program Concludes