Harvesting North America Outlook 2025
Sample discussion topics:
- A look into the September WASDE report
- Review corn and soy yield
- How grain volatilities, inflation, tariffs and other factors have created opportunities for hedging and new products
- LATAM CONAB planting numbers and outlook
Speakers
Todd Sibilla
Commodity Applications Specialist
Bloomberg
Todd Sibilla is a Commodity Applications Specialist for Bloomberg LP in New York. In this capacity he lectures at multiple industry events including BLOOMBERG Base, Precious and Battery Metals Webinar series through 2022, Client conferences in Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Mexico City and Monterrey, MX. He has been a featured speaker in the past at the BMO Metals and Mining Conference, CPM Gold Yearbook release, Society Of Mining Metallurgy and Exploration NYC conferences, Peru Universidad Esan, Universidad Peruana (UPC) and regional domestic USA Universities. Additional noteworthy events include the United Nations Renewable Energy Conference, the AFP Canada Annual Conference, CFA events, and Bloomberg Symposiums. He has expertise in all aspects of global financial markets and is a risk and hedging model specialist. Todd has a patent with Bloomberg for electronic trading technology.
Brett Gibbs
Equity Research Analyst, Fuels
Bloomberg Intelligence
Brett Gibbs is an Equity Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in Washington, DC covering Renewable Fuels and Refiners. His renewable fuels coverage includes US ethanol and renewable diesel. He has written extensively on the EPA Renewable Fuel Standard and RINs, including the development of a dynamic supply and demand model to forecast RIN bank balances. He most recently started covering US independent refiners. Prior to becoming an Analyst, Brett was an Associate covering Integrated Oils and Refining. He’s been at Bloomberg since 2018 after graduating from Loyola University Maryland.
John Ricci
Managing Director and Global Head of Agricultural Products
CME
John Ricci is responsible for leading the development, execution and management of CME Group’s agricultural business, including benchmark products that play a vital role in the global economy. Ricci has more than 25 years of experience in the derivatives markets, working with institutional clients across commodities and ETF markets. He has extensive experience with developing and building upon strong foundations within the derivatives markets. Prior to joining CME Group, Ricci served as the Global Head of ETF Trading at Invesco. He was also responsible for equity trading across developed, emerging and frontier markets, and commodity trading for mutual fund and ETF complex at BlackRock. Ricci is based in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Science, Finance degree from the University of Utah.
Jeff Doran
Senior Business Meteorologist
Planalytics
Jeffrey (Jeff) Doran has more than 30 years of experience as a meteorologist, helping organizations effectively incorporate and utilize weather analytics and insights in their planning decisions. Prior to joining Planalytics in 1999 Jeff served as a U.S. Air Force Captain and earned both a B.S. and M.S. in Meteorology from Penn State University. In his current role at Planalytics, Jeff helps clients in the Agriculture, Insurance, Financial and Retail sectors manage weather's impact on their business by identifying opportunities to grow sales and market share, reduce costs, and manage risk.