Celebrating 50 Seasons of Milestones and Memories

Sue Martin: “My husband and I are in Ames and we're walking down Main Street past the Edward Jones office, and there was a couple guys that walked out of the building behind us, and one of them said to the other, hey, isn't that hog lady?

Kristi: when was your first experience with Market to Market? Yeah. So I am going to go ahead and say this is probably a lot of people's first experience, but I grew up hearing about Sue Martin. That is, that is how I grew up. Once I started, I was like, that would be such a dream to be able to be on this show. I think it's such an honor to be able on to be on this show. Personally, I think every single market analyst that comes on the show does a fantastic job.

Ross on Walt Hackney: My first interaction with Market to Market would have been growing up as a kid. My dad watched Market to Market. My grandpa always watched Market to Market. And I would say, just as cattle feeders, the analyst that we all talked about and watched would have been Walt hakeny, the cattle guru that went on there, and Walt did an absolutely fantastic job.

Ted: Yes, sir. You would get orders coming out from the phone. They were just rows of phones with clerks sitting there taking orders and then holding them up. And I would grab that order and I would run it out to that pit. But you've got runners going both directions. And I got known for really not caring who was in my way. And I fairly wide but low to the ground right so like, I would get underneath you and flip you right over my back. So my nickname on the floor became tank.

Mark Pearson: This is one of our regular market analyst, Sue Martin, and a very special guest analyst, Mark Gold joins us as well. So both of you welcome to Market to Market and Mark, good to have you here. These, this, these prices. This is, this is Disneyland without going to Orlando. 

Mark Gold: No question about it. You know, when you get historic prices like this, we've all been waiting for beans in the teens for 30 some odd years now, we know not only have beans in the teens, we have wheat in the teens.

Paul Yeager: Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Gold.

Mark Gold: I don’t remember much… 

John Roach with Chet We want to turn as usual. We do it this time to this week's commodity markets with market analyst John Roach of the farmers grain and livestock Corporation, and John with low subsoil moisture, how much lower is this corn going?

Well, Chet, It surprised me in how far it's sold off this past week. I don't think we'll see too much further decline before we see it start to recover.

We've got some other pressures on it, like wheat, but it should rally unless we get a lot

of rain. Well, at this point, the market seems to be watching the weather forecast a little closer than they are the crop development.

Paul Yeager: Naomi, I know a little bit about I was here when your first I was on the production crew, when you came, you weren't nervous at all, were you?

Naomi Blohm: Oh, I was beyond sick to my stomach. And Mark sat out in the entryway with me for an hour just trying to tell me jokes and calm me down. I mean, I was shaking. I was so nervous, you know, because it was, it is gospel to be here, and it was such an honor and a privilege. And then, you know, I grew up, and my dad, we had our dog food business, and so he would watch the show every weekend to know about grain prices, and he would if he had to run outside with a customer or something, he would say, No, you watch and you tell me what Sue says.

Shawn Hackett: There's no place I would rather be than on the show in Iowa with you at that moment in time. And I really feel that way. It's a special moment. It's a special place someone like myself who has covered markets his whole life. To be recognized with some of the greatest minds in agriculture is very special, and I'm very humbled to be a part of it.

Paul Yeager: Matt Bennett, tell me about I know it's super quiet in your house that you grew up in on Sunday mornings in Illinois. Matthew Bennett: Yeah, so we get home from church, and my dad would say, you're going to sit on the couch and you're going to watch this show and don't say anything, and you might learn something and, and I told you this before, Paul, but just to the audience here is that I couldn't stand watching Market to Market as a kid, because I was just a young guy, you know, and I'm sitting here trying to be quiet, first of all, but, but, you know, so whenever I did get the call to come over and do it, it was beyond an honor. I mean, I probably watched more episodes than anybody my age that lives on planet Earth.

Arlan: what I like about this show is the opportunity to really explain what's behind it. To help teach more than just comment, but you're teaching so that people can try to understand, so they can make good decisions.

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