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Ted specializes in agricultural hedging employing various strategies using futures, futures spreads, outright options and option combinations. He believes it is paramount to be able to use different strategies to adapt to market conditions. Ted works with large to mid size grain and livestock producers and end users in North, Central and South America.

Suzy Friedman directs the Environmental Defense Fund’s work to collaborate with farmers, grower organizations, agribusinesses and food company/retail partners to create a U.S. agricultural system that drives climate stability, clean water and food security. She has worked at EDF since January 2001. By collaborating with decision-makers at every point in the supply chain – from retailers and food companies to agribusiness and farmers – Suzy’s work helps to strengthen demand for sustainable production and generate supply, showing how achieving sustainability makes good business sense and increases our resiliency to the impacts of climate change.

Fernando Diaz, DVM, Ph.D. is the director of the Dairy Knowledge Center in Brookings, South Dakota. You can reach him at fernando@dairykc.com