In this episode of The ECRUU Podcast, we are honoured to chat with the brand new Director General of ISMA.

In this episode, we chat with Harsh Soni, the founder of Greenleaf Corporations. As an expert on the Indian sugar market, he shares his insights and what to expect in the next two seasons.

In this episode, we chat with Gareth Forber, director of sugar research at GlobalData. We take a deep dive into the difficult topic of consumption, unpacking the factors that influence demand and what to expect this year.

In this episode we interview Ghasharib Shoukat, from the Pakistan Agricultural Research (PAR) group to do a deep dive into the very complex Pakistani sugar market.

Julian Price has several decades of experience in the sugar industry, including as a trader, broker, lobbyist, and analyst. He is widely known as “Mister EU Regulations” for his knowledge of the intricate EU policies. In this podcast, he shares his experience and how he sees EU regulations evolving.

In this podcast, we interview Kevin Marcus, the founder of Marcus Weather. Kevin has an unusual dual expertise in both weather and agronomy, which has helped him become a reference in weather analysis in the agriculture space over the last 40 years. Kevin walks us through what it means to help market participants stay ahead of the weather.

In this week’s ECRUU podcast, we interview Alexander Sterk, the founder of the commodity platform Vesper. He walks us through his journey from being a dairy trader to founding and then scaling up a commodity platform, including raising funds from investors.

In this episode of The ECRUU Podcast, we interview Claudiu Coverig. He founded CovrigAnalytics after working several years as a sugar and biofuels analyst for a big group. In this podcast, he shares with us his journey building his own analytics business. We also talk about what to look out for in the current market.

In this podcast episode, we chat with the head of sugar and ethanol research at Tropical Research Services (TRS). TRS has an unusual origin story (which we go into in the podcast) and puts a strong emphasis on field surveys to provide qualitative analysis. Henrique tells us about what it means to incorporate field surveys, what his team in India is telling him, and what we should be looking out for in India this year.

In this episode, we interview Stephen Geldart, the head of analysis at Czarnikow (also known as CZ). CZ has been in the sugar market for a while, but a lot of things have been happening recently, including a change in the way the company is handling its analysis services. In this episode, Stephen walks us through the strategy behind these changes. We also chat about what to look out for in the current market.

Maria Nunez is a senior sugar analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insight. She has worked in the sugar market for over 20 years, as a futures trader as well as an analyst. In this podcast, Maria takes us back in time to when she started in the sugar market in 1981 in Cuba, her home country, which was then the biggest sugar supplier in the world, and how things have changed today.

In this episode, we chat with Livea Codea, market intelligence coordinator at hEDGEpoint Global Markets. After working at Raizen for several years, she now provides market intelligence to help participants hedge and therefore build an insight into price direction. In this podcast, she shares with us her journey and her strategy to give clients and the wider market the analysis they need to make the best hedging decisions.

This week we inaugurate Season 2 of the ECRUU Podcast in which we interview Jonathan Kingsman, founder of Kingsman and writer of several best selling commodity trading books, including The Sugar Casino.

In this week’s podcast, we interview Aditya Jhunjhunwala, the president of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), who chats with us about what to expect from India in 2023/24 and onwards.

Dr Amin is a 73-year old testing, inspection and certification company from India that accompanies sugar exports from the mills to the ports.