Podcasts about mercaris

Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: -Soybean Harvet and Trade Update -Corn Harvest and Pricing Sponsored by Byron Seeds and SoilBiotics

The guys chat with Kellee James, CEO and Founder of Mercaris, to delve into the mysterious realm of specialty grains. If $42/bushel soybeans doesn't grab your attention, we don't know what will! Shout out to cauliflower rice for not sponsoring this episode.

Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: -2022 Early Planting Trends -Organic Soybean and Corn markets -Organic Grain Imports Sponsored by Byron Seeds and SoilBiotics

Organics Unpacked Episode #32: Interview with Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics at Mercaris How is the Russian invasion of Ukraine impacting organic crop prices? Ryan Koory of Mercaris breaks down the effects of the ongoing conflict, from organic crop shortages to the presence of missile waste material in certified organic acres. Ryan also discusses the current state of the organic market in countries as varied as India, Argentina and Canada. Learn more about Avé Organics: www.aveorganics.com Learn more about Mercaris: www.mercaris.com Connect with our guest on LinkedIn #organicfarming

In this episode, I interview Kellee James, the founder and CEO of Mercaris, a company helping organic food pricing become more transparent. Kellee worked at the World Bank and the Chicago Climate Exchange prior to starting Mercaris. She tells the story of building the company, helps explain the agriculture supply chain, and shares her long-term vision for the industry. I really enjoyed our conversion and I hope you do too!

Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: Fertilizer shortages 2022 Crop Planning Outlook Organic grain supply and pricing Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Rob Wallbridge, Agronomist with SureSource Commodities and Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics, join to give the latest updates from the field and organic marketplace. Topics discussed: 2021 Harvest update Fall crop progress India tariff and certification decisions Organic grain pricing Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics at Mercaris, and Rob Wallbridge, Agronomist with SureSource Commodities, join to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace and the field. Topics discussed: Outlook for organic corn market 2021 Harvest progress Ripple effects of fertilizer shortages Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Organics Unpacked Episode #20: Interview with Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics at Mercaris For the 20th edition of Organics Unpacked, we welcome back our very first guest, Ryan Koory. In our discussion, Ryan breaks down marketing trends for several organic commodities, especially soybeans, which have risen in price considerably over the past year. Using market trends and data analysis, he identifies the key drivers in the soybean market and the organic sector at large. Ryan serves as the Vice President of Economics at Mercaris, a market research company for organic and non-GMO commodities. Learn more about Avé Organics: www.aveorganics.com Learn more about Mercaris: www.mercaris.com Connect with our guest on LinkedIn #organicfarming

Ryan Koory, Vice President of Economics with Mercaris and (new this month!) Rob Wallbridge, Agronomist with SureSource Commodities, join to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace and a crop report. Topics discussed: Department of Commerce report on Indian imports Effects to organic grain prices Organic crop update and yield outlook Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics with Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Yield predictions for organic grains Organic grain imports Organic grain prices Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Megan Thomas, Economist with Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: Impact of drought throughout the country Organic grain prices Organic grain import report Organic livestock inventories Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: Regional impacts of drought Imports of organic grains Organic grain prices Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: Organic dairy report Organic soybean shortage in United States Organic grain prices Sponsored by Byron Seeds and Mercaris

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics discussed: Drought conditions setting in Organic Livestock market update Organic grain imports and pricing impacts Sponsored by Mercaris and Byron Seeds

Welcome to Organics Unpacked. Today, we cover everything you need to know about starting an organic farming business. In the first episode of Organics Unpacked, we hear from Ryan Koory of Mercaris. Ryan discusses tactical tips for organic farmers from California to Iowa, discusses USDA regulations and shares what it takes to be successful in organic farming. Learn more about Avé Organics: www.aveorganics.com Learn more about Mercaris: www.mercaris.com Connect with our guest on LinkedIn #organicfarming

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Spring weather update Organic soybean market impacted by imports Organic corn market rising Sponsored by Mercaris and Byron Seeds

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Weather impacting crops India equivalency agreement update Cargill/Rodale/Bill & Evans transitioning acres to organic Sponsored by Mercaris and Byron Seeds

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Organic livestock markets India equivalency agreement ending Organic corn pricing and outlook Sponsored by Mercaris and Byron Seeds

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Slow Markets to end year Organic vs Conventional Corn Prices Items to Watch in 2021

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed 2020 Harvest Update Organic Fluid Dairy Sales Levelling off of Imports Organic Grain Pricing

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: 2020 Harvest Status Organic Broiler and Turkey Production Organic Trade Update Organic Grain Price Outlook

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: 2020 Harvest Outlook Organic Grain Imports Organic Livestock Market Organic Grain Pricing

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, gives the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Impact of Iowa Storms on Organic Corn Crop Organic Livestock Trends Organic Grain Imports Organic Grain Pricing

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, gives the latest updates from the organic marketplace. Topics Discussed: Weather Conditions Effect on Crops Organic Broiler Numbers Import Update Organic Grain Pricing

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins us to give the latest updates from the organic marketplace Topics Discussed: Planting Progress Livestock Updates Imports Organic Grain Pricing Organic Trade Association Report

Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris, joins us to give the April Organic Market Updates Topics Discussed: Organic Corn and Soybean Updates Organic Beef, Poultry and Dairy Markets Impacts of Covid-19 on Organic Markets

Kellee James joins us today to discuss what it takes to build a platform as co-founder and CEO of Mercaris, a market information service and online trading platform for identity preserved agricultural commodities.   “We’re a market data and information service. We are also an online trading platform but we have chosen to focus on a specific part of the ag supply chain, and that is identity preserved ag commodities.” - Kellee James   Mercaris provides price discovery while allowing customers a procurement tool within a very specific field in agriculture through trades and auctions. Only 15% of their revenue is derived from trading fees. Most of their revenue comes from the sale of data. There is very limited tracking in imports and exports with these specific commodities so creating a data marketplace creates real advantage for their customers as well as a way to connect with vendors who may be interested in their products.   “You’ve got to establish yourself as the marketplace. So getting out ahead of others that are trying to do the same thing, I think is important.” - Kellee James   Kellee didn’t grow up on a farm. Her family is originally from New York but she fell in love with agriculture and pursued that industry in college. She found an opportunity when she learned that farmers could sell credits based on environmentally friendly practices.   “I was hooked. It was a way to provide real dollars in the pockets of producers who were undertaking something that had an environmental benefit. I liked the appeal of using a market mechanism to put a price and a value on something that we all need in society.” - Kellee James   Kellee highlights that the goal in these marketplaces is not to spend the most money to reduce emissions. The measure of success is to create an environment of supply and demand so that the “market finds the lowest cost reductions.” But how do we get so many different sectors on board and what incentivizes them to carry through with their promises?   “It’s a tough problem for humanity because it does require collective action and last time I looked, collective action is still best accomplished by the federal government.” - Kellee James   This Week on The Future of Agriculture Podcast: Meet Kellee James, CEO and co-founder of Mercaris Explore what the Mercaris platform looks like and what it means for its customers Learn about the structure behind commodity markets and what it takes to create one Share the Ag-Love! Thanks for joining us on the Future of Agriculture Podcast – your spot for valuable information, content, and interviews with industry leaders throughout the agricultural space! If you enjoyed this week’s episode, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts and leave your honest feedback. Don’t forget to share it with your friends on your favorite social media spots! And be sure to join the new Future of Agriculture Membership for even more valuable information on the future of ag. Learn more about AgGrad by visiting: Future of Agriculture Website AgGrad Website AgGrad on Twitter AgGrad on Facebook AgGrad on LinkedIn AgGrad on Instagram      

Jason Charles is one of the cofounders of Pipeline foods and is currently Vice President of food ingredients. But unlike the other cofounders, Jason is also a farmer. He was born and raised on a 12,000 acre organic farm in Southeast Saskatchewan that he still helps to run. He’s worked as a grain merchant for many years, first for a couple of the bigs and eventually starting his own organic marketing company, Charles Commodity Consulting, which was the first purchase made by Pipeline Foods. Today we talk about how the season is looking north of the border and how Covid-19 is impacting Jason, his farm, and Pipeline Foods. We’ll also look forward to organic market trends. This episode is one of seven in which we take a digital road trip, checking in via phone with growers from Missouri on up to Canada about how they and the communities they live in are reacting to Covid-19. So hop in, buckle up, and hit the virtual road with us for this special spring 2020 series of Into the Weeds podcasts: Road trip edition. Show notes - Mercaris webinar and report: https://mercaris.com/posts/organic-outlook-corn-wheat-face-supply-glut-soy-market-expected-to-remain-strong

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani interviews Mercaris CEO Kellee James and Victor Friedberg, founder of FoodShot Global. They discuss Mercaris’ report on COVID-19 could impact the livestock, grain, and crop markets in the agriculture market and FoodShot’s recent challenge, “Precision Protein.” While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

How is the coronavirus affecting organic grain farmers? What effect might the pandemic have on commodity prices? What should organic farmers be considering as they think about this year? Listen in on conversations with economist Ryan Koory of Mercaris and organic farmers Carmen Fernholz and Luke Peterson. Turns out, the solutions are the tried-and-true principles of organic and sustainable farming—diversify your crops and markets and join forces with other farmers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/moses-podcast/message

Rusty Halvorson continues hosting AoA this week. Today he talked with Brian Winnekins with WRDN Real Country, an AoA affiliate. Ryan Koory, Director of Economics at Mercaris gave an outlook update on organic farming and Kirsten Rall joined the show to talk about seed transparency with FBN's Matt Meisner. 

Today’s guest, Victor Friedberg is the co-founder of S2G ventures, a Chicago-based firm that has backed companies across the ag and food industries such as Beyond Meat, Maple Hill Creamery, Benson Hill Biosystems, and Mercaris. Victor is also the founder of Foodshot Global, a non-profit consortium of companies focused on creating a food system that's more healthy, sustainable, and equitable.In this episode, Victor and I chat about:· How Victor went from tech entrepreneur to food and ag investor· How a systems approach to investing can decrease risk· Opportunities for farmers to benefit from consumer trends· Victor’s reflections on the agrifood tech opportunities down underAdditional resources:S2G VenturesFoodShot GlobalMaple Hill CreameryBeyond MeatUmamiOrganic Fraud Imports in the newsCheck out our "getting agtech ready" eBook here: https://www.agtechsowhat.com/getting-agtech-ready-ebook

We tend to have a good handle on what is happening in the conventional crop markets, but what about organics?  Ryan Koory, is the director of economics at Mercaris,and shed some light on what organic markets are doing, and what is impacting them. World Beef Expo started today, and next week is the beginning of World Dairy Expo. And Pam talks with a grain processing facility in Alaska, that adds value to the business as it sees a change in market demand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kellee James is the Founder and CEO of Mercaris -- a market data service, and trading platform for organic, non-GMO and other certified agricultural commodities. What that translates to is a whole lot of innovation and ingenuity to create bigger business out of small and sustainable farming and agriculture.

While convention grain markets have been on a rollercoaster ride - organic grain producers with a target for the feed or food market have been insulated to a degree from the upset. Jessie Bovay, Director of Business Development with Mercaris shares their latest survey. Organic Producer's Report May 7, 2019 Contact us at mercaris@mercaris.com or (312) 423-1875 U.S. Organic Feed Grade Commodities: Delivered Price (U.S.$/bu) Organic feed corn contracting volumes lost their four-week momentum during mid-April compared to the previous weeks. Delivered prices averaged $9.51/bu at the conclusion of the two-week period ending April 13, down $0.25/bu from the prior two-week period. Further, organic feed corn lost an average of $0.83/bu year over year. Organic feed soybeans saw a jump in contracting activity at the end of Q1 and the beginning of Q2, but contracting volumes slowed in mid-April. Delivered prices averaged $18.93/bu for the two-week period ending April 13, just slightly under prices seen last period and mostly even with a year ago. Organic feed wheat purchasing has dramatically declined since the end of Q1 2019. Delivered prices averaged $10.20/bu for the first two-week period ending March 30. Organic feed wheat contracting volumes did not meet Mercaris' standards for publication for the second two-week period ending April 13. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kellee James , the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Mercaris, has spent nearly her entire life working in energy and agriculture. Kellee grew up in a military family, which not only taught her to accept change but embrace it. Later, Kellee ventured off to the University of Kentucky to earn a degree in Spanish and pursue her dream of becoming an Olympic horseback rider. After a horseback riding injury, Kellee started her career working with commodity banks in Latin America on risk… Continue Reading ›› The post Horseback Riding, $27 Soybean Premiums, and Becoming an Organic Farmer with Kellee James appeared first on Farmtank.

Julia Hofmeister of Mercaris joins the podcast to discuss the helpful data solutions that her company is providing an under-served market. Organic and non-GMO products have been notoriously difficult to source as well as find price data. Mercaris is filling that gap through some great innovation and continues to expand to fill customers' needs.

Women still make the majority of food decisions in the home -- around 65% according to some estimates. While this has fallen from over 95% 20 years ago, women are still underrepresented in leading roles at food companies globally. I this week’s podcast, Louisa discusses the impact of this underrepresentation and how tech innovation is adapting to consumer demands with Beth Robertson-Martin, sourcing lead for organic, natural and non-GMO ingredients at General Mills, Kellee James, founder of Mercaris, the organic commodities trading platform, and Sanjeev Krishnan, partner at S2G Ventures, an agrifood tech venture capital firm. (Disclosure: S2G is invested in Mercaris.)

Everything changed on his visit to the Central Market in Valencia, Spain: Victor Friedberg realized that food is a system. He returned to the U.S. and dove head first into learning about food systems. At S2G Ventures, Victor and his team invest in innovative food startups. Many of the startups have been guests on our show, including Maple Hill Creamery, TerraMera, Myco, Mercaris, Kuli Kuli, Back to the Roots, Shenandoah Growers, and SVO. S2G has built an amazing community and portfolio. Victor is sharp and insightful. We talk about: Victor's diverse work and life background His trip to Valencia, Spain The different stages of investing Investing in great "systems" What he sees in some of the food startups that he has invested in Synergy between his food startups Creating alpha How they advise their portfolio of companies The advisors to Victor and his fund (an impressive group)  

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future." - Steve Jobs Kellee James exemplifies this quote. Looking at her experience, one can connect the dots and trace why she was able to start a food commodities exchange. Mercaris allows buyers and sellers of raw commodities to meet and trade online. Customers include Whole Foods Market, Michael Foods, Perdue Farms, and others. They make it possible for "everyone in the supply chain, from farmers to food manufacturers, to track prices, volumes and other statistics for organic corn, or non-GMO soybeans." Prior to Mercaris, Kellee spent five years at the Chicago Climate Exchange(CCX), the first electronic trading platform and registry for spot, futures and options contracts on carbon, sulfur, clean energy and other environmental products. In 2009, she was appointed by President Barack Obama as a White House Fellow where she advised members of the administration on environmental markets. She has also worked with coffee farmers and commodity banks in Latin America on risk management and income diversification strategies. She was named by both Black Enterprise Magazine and Crain's Chicago Business Magazine as a '40 under 40' rising leader. Learn the ins and outs of Kellee's life and company: Her aspirations to be a pro athlete and how she adjusted Why politics and government are two different things What she learned from politics Limitations of the futures market "Every single contract that is traded on our platform results in the physical delivery of the underlying commodity." Why didn't an exchange like Mercaris exist 10 years ago? How they assemble their data (very cool!!) What she learned working with coffee farmers in Honduras How the company attracts farmers, grain mills/elevators, and retailers "Identity preservation" in commodities The auction strategy: standard vs. reverse auctions The commodities she wants to add in the future Selected links from the show: Mercaris Kellee James on AngelList The Rogue Traders Foods: Facebook | Instagram Direct Origin Trading