Cotton market planning course - Griffith

Do you know your market signals in a year of volatility?

 

This course is designed for cotton growers wanting to understand forward markets and other commodity market signals, and to apply this knowledge to selling alternatives and pricing strategies under price volatility. This is a course leading to market understanding and selling-pricing strategy application. 

 

For more information, and to register, download the brochure here.

 

The two-day course is divided into four half-day sections:

 

1. Risk evaluation

 

2. Basis and markets

 

3. Fixed versus flexible strategies

 

4. Strategy evaluation

 

 

Topics covered will include:

Dr. John Williams will be presenting the two-day course. John is the Managing Director of the Food and Fibre Supply Chain Institute and the Senior Researcher at the Australian Commodity Research Institute. He facilitated intensive training programs for cotton growers and merchants in northern NSW during 1998 to 2002 working closely with Geoff Dunlop at the Cotton Training facility in Moree. 

 

His flagship February five-day commodity course has been conducted in Melbourne for the past 23 years, and he has facilitated Agricultural Commodity Price Risk Management courses in all States, training Australian agricultural producers, merchants, and end-users. He has conducted training programs for merchants and end-users in China and South Korea. He co-authored the 1999 book Agricultural Price Risk Management: The Principles of Commodity Trading and authored the 2014 book Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk. John is employed by some large growers and merchants as a commodity analyst and has been an adviser on food supply chains for Middle Eastern countries.