About

Market to Market is the nation's longest-running weekly public television program of its kind dedicated to agriculture and rural America. Every week, you'll find:

• Agricultural business and technology news
• Commodity market analysis from leading analysts
• Grain, livestock and dairy market outlooks
• Farm policy and USDA updates
• Weather, trade and global market impacts
• Stories from farmers, ranchers and rural communities

For more than 50 years, Market to Market has helped producers, agribusiness professionals and anyone interested in agriculture understand the issues shaping one of America's most important industries. New episodes premiere every Friday. Market to Market is produced by Iowa PBS.

Analysts

Ross Baldwin

Analyst

Ross Baldwin grew up just south of Anthon on his family's cattle feedlot. He is still involved with the family-owned operation that feeds 4,500 head every year and Ross has his own feeders in the mix. Prior to joining the AgMarket.Net team, he managed a private grain elevator for six years, handling corn and soybeans, and, most recently, worked at the Flint Hills Resources - Arthur ethanol plant where he worked for nearly four years. Ross combines his 10 years of experience with a true passion for helping livestock and grain producers manage risk as well as creating value for their operation’s bottom line.

Matthew Bennett

Analyst

Matthew Bennett is a Windsor, Illinois, farmer and former grain elevator owner. He is Channel Seed’s grain marketing consultant and Co-Founder of AgMarket.Net, a Farm Division of JSA. Matt brings the producer perspective to the table, enriched with his extensive grain marketing background. He specializes in formulating risk-management strategies for corn and soybean farmers as well as livestock producers. Matt’s analysis and commentary on the grain markets appears on various TV and radio stations across the Midwest, including Market to Market. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Matt and his wife Tiffany live on the family’s centennial farm north of Windsor, Illionios where they are raising their five children. He owns and operates a 3,000-acre corn and soybean farm with his father while raising 25 head of registered Angus cattle. AgMarket.Net

Naomi Blohm

Analyst

Naomi Blohm is Market Advisor for Total Farm Marketing where she 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 helped create the program “Women to Women: Educating Women about Farm Marketing.” Naomi has multiple college degrees including a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Agriculture Business from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville; a Master of Science in Adult Education with an emphasis in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville; and a Master Certificate in Global Education from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh.

Jeff French

Analyst

Jeff French founded AgHedgers in 2020 after spending 15 years working for one of the nation’s leading agricultural risk-management companies in Chicago. His motivation for starting his own commodity brokerage business was two-fold; he could work with each of his clients individually and he could return to work the family farm in Wiota, Iowa.

Shawn Hackett

Analyst

Shawn Hackett has over 30 years of experience trading in financial and agricultural commodity markets. A frequent contributor to Barron’s, Futures Magazine, Reuters, Bloomberg, US Farm Report, Ag-TV, and Market to Market as well as regular radio show contributor for the likes of Chip Flory-AgriTalk, After the Bell, Michell Rook-AgDay and Linda Brekke - The Linda Network. Shawn has dedicated his life to educating agricultural industry leaders and farmers about financial risk management, hedging and the utility of indicator-based agricultural commodity price forecasting tools. His extensive research on long term cycles and statistics on climate, currencies, geopolitics and global capital flows has long been a key differentiating factor for Shawn’s price forecasting skills. He takes complicated concepts and presents them in an easily digestible framework to a wide audience and discusses them regularly in his subscriber based Hackett Agricultural Report, and Hackett Dairy Report.

Dan Hueber

Analyst

Dan Hueber has roots that run deep in agriculture. His family has been involved in farming and the grain and feed business in the U.S. since 1853. He began his career in cash grain, managing independent grain elevators when he was 19-years old, but his true interest always lay in commodity market analysis and economics. In 1979, he entered the commodity brokerage business specializing in agricultural hedging. Nine years later, he and a partner opened an independent advisory and brokerage firm in Sycamore, Illinois. Throughout his 40 plus years in the business, he has been active in producer market education and has taught risk management classes at local colleges. Dan is a frequent guest on a number of farm radio and television programs throughout the United States including Market to Market. You can also find him as a frequent speaker at risk management and outlook seminars. Dan holds a BA in Business Entrepreneurship from Ashford University in Clinton, Iowa. He is also the owner and publisher of the news and advisory letter The Hueber Report.

Sue Martin

Analyst

Sue Martin is president and owner of Ag & Investment Services, Inc. With 30 years of experience in the brokerage business, she was among the first women in her field. Active on the speaking circuit, Sue has addressed national audiences on marketing strategies and futures trends. She also has served on the board of the National Introducing Brokers Association. In addition to her popular recurring appearances on Market to Market, Sue delivers daily commentary and analysis to a variety of radio networks and on the Internet.

Chris Robinson

Analyst

Chris Robinson has been a Chicago Board of Trade member since 1991 and has had every job on the floor of the CBOT from runner, to phone clerk to broker. He spent 19 years on the floor of the CBOT as an independent trader, spending most of his time in the soybean and Dow futures pits. Chris founded Robinson Ag Marketing in 2019 after a decade-long career at Top Third Ag Marketing. He now advises both producers and end-users to construct hedges as part of an overall risk management approach to dealing with price risk in the commodity markets. Chris writes his own daily marketing letter, The Robinson Review, and is a frequent guest analyst for the CME, TD Ameritrade, Sky News, Fox Business News, RFD TV, and of course, Iowa PBS’ Market to Market.

Don Roose

Analyst

Don Roose is the president and CEO of U.S. Commodities, Inc. — a diversified grain, livestock and energy hedging and trading firm located in West Des Moines, Iowa. Founded by Don in 1986, U.S. Commodities is a full service brokerage which also provides research for clients in the U.S. and overseas. Don grew up on grain and livestock operations in Iowa and Illinois, and has been associated with agriculture and marketing his entire life.

Ted Seifried

Analyst

Ted Seifried is Vice President and Chief Market Strategist at Zaner Ag Hedge where he 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 the Zaner Ag Hedge Group. Ted is also a certified PADI Advanced Open Water diver.

Angie Setzer

Analyst

Angie Setzer has been in the cash grain industry for over 19 years. She has dedicated her career to learning the ins and outs of the cash grain business from both the commercial and the farmer side. Angie left the elevator business in 2021 to launch Consus where, along with her husband Karl, they work with over 50 farmers and a handful of independent agribusinesses, helping them turn their bushels into cash. In addition to still actively participating in the cash market, Angie is a well-known market analyst, having been seen on Bloomberg Television, BBC News, Fox Business, Market to Market, as well as a repeat featured guest on Bloomberg “Oddlots” and quoted in news publications around the world.

Arlan Suderman

Analyst

Arlan Suderman is the Chief Commodities Economist for StoneX Group Inc. – FCM Division, a financial services provider for global markets. He oversees the company’s commodity market intelligence efforts. Arlan provides unique market insight on global macro-economic trends and their implications for the commodity markets. He is a leading commentator in the Ag commodity sector, with particular expertise in the interaction with broader markets. A graduate of Kansas State University, with a degree specializing in Animal Science Industry, Arlan has an expertise and passion for the markets that gives him valuable insight into the realities of macro-economic trends and how they influence the commodity markets. He can be heard daily on many radio stations across the Midwest.

Kristi Van Ahn-Kjeseth

Analyst

Kristi Van Ahn-Kjeseth started with Van Ahn and Company, Inc. part time in 2009 while she finished her last year of college at North Dakota State University. She graduated with a degree in finance and a minor in Agricultural Business. Kristi is proud that she gets to carry on the family business and hopes that it continues to flourish for generations to come. What she loves the most about her job is the integral part of relationship building and marketing that she gets to do with their producers. Kristi is married with three daughters (just like how she grew up). Her hobbies include golfing, being outdoors, watching her girls grow, date nights with her husband, and spending time with all her family - no event is too chaotic.

Staff

Paul Yeager

Brooke Kohlsdorf

Laurel Bower

Colleen Bradford Krantz

Peter Tubbs

David Miller