Press release #3, November 28, 2011

15/12/2011

Press release #3, November 28, 2011

Where the Margin Is 2012

The last days of early bird registration!

The conference is meant for large and largest agricultural producers, ag inputs manufacturers, dealers and distributors, financiers, insurers, agricultural and agribusiness investors, traders, food processors, and policy makers.

Among registered companies: Kubanagroprod, Sodrugestvo Group, Grainrus, Port of Sillamäe, Sloboda-agro, AgroGard, SEUS, Steppe Group, Lipetskoye Group of Farms, Plodorodie, Terra-Invest, Bryansk-Agro, B&N FINAM Group Asset Management LLC, IPF Management, Ratum Legal Firm LTD., SGS Vostok Ltd., AgroTerra, INTL FCStone, Malteurop Russia, AVG Capital Partners, Louis Dreyfus Commodities Vostok, Burlington Capital Group, and other companies and organizations

Theme for 2012: Farmland as an emerging asset class in Russia and Eastern Europe countries

Other topics:

Situatuion and outlook of the key commodity markets in the world and Russia: consequences for the production margins
Russia’s WTO accession: struyggling against negative consequences and outcomes for agriculture
New domestic land legislation and dynamics of regional farmland markets
Traditional and new tools of agricultural price hedging: FSU context
Technological future of regional agriculture

Among the speakers:

Andrey Klepach, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Russian Federation

Macroeconomic situation and its influence on Russian agriculture

Martin Davis, Head of Farmland Investments, Insight Investments

Personal experience of farmland management and investments in Eastern Europe

Stefan Frappat, CEO, the Sodrugestvo Group

Introduction of new farming project of one of leading domestic agbiz
corporations

Philippe de Laperouse, Managing director, HighQuest Partners, LLC

Global investments in farmland: status and prospects

Vladislav Novoselov, managing director, BEFL

Insights on the Russian farmland market from the leading domestic farm realtor company

Dmitry Rylko, general director, IKAR

Domestic agricultural commodity markets and margins

Bill Wilson, professor, North Dakota State University

Global agricultural commodity markets and margins

Presentation of selected conference participants:
AVG Capital Partners is a Russian private equity group based in Moscow with approximately $200 million under management and extensive holdings in the Russian agricultural sector. AVG has interests in crop production, sugar processing, poultry production, greenhouse vegetable cultivation, processing of wheat into industrial chemicals, and aquaculture (fish farming). AVG holds a major share in Razgulay, one of Russia's largest agro-holdings.
Management company B&N FINAM Group Asset Management LLC since 2006 runs a close-end rent mutual fund FINAM – Capital Investments. The fund’s aim is to guarantee stable rent income and capital gain associated with the agricultural land value increase in middle-term period (3-5 years). The fund invests in agricultural land plots in key domestic production regions. Since 2010 the fund pays the rent to its owners. In 2011 the fund entered into strategic partnership agreement with TerraInvest, and leased out to this company 2655 ha of arable land in Lipetsk region. Secondary placement of shares has been made in 2011, and as the result NAV has increased from rur600 million to rur2160 million. As of the end of October 2011 the fund has owned 45822 ha of farmland in Penza, Liepetsk, Saratov, Rostov, Krasnodar and Altai regions. The nearest company plans envisage continuation of forming quality land portfolio in key production domestic regions, as well as entering into strategic alliances with local operational farmoing companies.

Why this conference?

Two previous conferences positioned Where the Margin Is as a unique high caliber event, professionally dealing with the key issues of domestic agriculture and agribusiness.

See our track record up-to-date:

High quality sponsors
Best, most knowledgeable, and influential industry speakers
Leading domestic farm operators
Leading world and domestic agribusiness companies
High level of company representation: mostly CEO and owners
High conference organization standards

Pricing:
Registration fee: RUR18 th, or EUR480.

Agricultural producers — 10% discount (special discounts are available, please inquire the organizers)!
Subscribers of IKAR — 10% discount
Early bird discount (before November 30): 10% discount
Maximum discount: 25%

To register: http://ikar.ru/wherethemarginis/registration

The conference package consists of: