Carl has over 30 years of experience as a commodity merchant and futures trader with practical knowledge trading basis and futures from having traded trucks, rail cars, containers and vessel quantities of products across all continents. He has working experience with line companies, crushers, ethanol plants, grain millers, fish processors, feed lots, hog and poultry producers as well as dairy farms. Carl has had several speaker appearances across North America and Asia in English, French and Spanish on the topics of futures trading and grain merchandising.

About the course FRE 517(1.5): Futures Trading of Agricultural Commodities
In this course, students will learn how commodity futures markets work, formulate and test their own trading and hedging strategies, and practice risk management. For 6 weeks, students will trade in a competitive setting (the CME Group Trading Challenge).