About the Show

A market advisor for Stewart-Peterson, Naomi Blohm advises clients on how to manage their cash marketing needs as well as the proper use of futures and options contracts. Naomi regularly leads market outlook and risk management seminars throughout the Midwest and is co-creator of Stewart-Peterson’s program “Women to Women: Educating Women about Farm Marketing.” 

Naomi earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Agriculture Business at the University of Wisconsin in Platteville. She has a Master of Science in Adult Education with an emphasis in Ag Economics, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, and a Master Certificate in Global Education, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

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Shawn Hackett has over 30-years of experience trading in financial and agricultural commodity markets. He has dedicated his life to educating industry leaders and farmers about financial risk management, hedging and indicator-based agricultural commodity price forecasting tools.

Back in 2002, Shawn joined Roach Ag Marketing and spent five years adding to his knowledge base. In 2007, he went out on his own and formed Hackett Financial Advisors Inc. Shawn is the publisher of the Hackett Money Flow Agricultural Report, the Hackett Dairy Report and the Climatelligence Report.

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Elaine Kub is the author of Mastering the Grain Markets: How Profits Are Really Made – a 360-degree look at all aspects of grain trading, which draws on her experiences as a futures broker, market analyst, grain merchandiser, and farmer. Before earning an engineering degree from the University of Nebraska and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of California San Diego, Elaine grew up on a family farm in South Dakota, where she is still active in grain and livestock production. 

As well as regularly sharing her insights on Market to Market, Elaine also writes a column for DTN, gives market outlook presentations across the country, and provides agricultural market analysis for other industry-specific and national media outlets.

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With almost 25 years of experience analyzing commodity markets and developing risk-management strategies, Darin focuses on explaining how the structure of a market -- the trend of the futures combined with the price relationship between contracts -- indicates what type of market exists and therefore which strategies are appropriate.

When not seen on Market to Market, Darin’s articles and commentary can be found in various industry publications and newspapers, on radio and television stations, and on the Internet.

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Appearing regularly for more than 30 years, John Roach is Market to Market 's senior analyst. John grew up on a small grain and livestock farm in south central Iowa. He started in the futures business in 1973 and five years later founded Roach Ag Marketing, an independent full-service commodity brokerage with more than 2,500 domestic and foreign clients. John authors a daily grain marketing plan that he sends to his farm clients by email each morning. 

Cited in the 1995 book Master Brokers, John is based in Boca Raton, Florida. His business has 20 experienced brokers at 11 office locations in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska.

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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 as part of his work with Zaner Ag Hedge Group.

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