RFD Profit Watch

Darin Newsom, Darin Newsom Analysis, covers chilly weather across the Midwest and market impacts. Chase, a college-age professional working for an ag group in Washington, D.C., talks about how to live working in ag in a high-cost environment for a Profit Watch 101 segment. Eric Snodgress, Senior Atmospheric Scientist at Nutrien, joins the program to discuss lingering chilly weather as we transitio...

Dr. Jeff Bunting, head of Crop Protection at Growmark, joins the program to discuss protectorants as planting season continues. Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agrimarketing, talks about the weather and market movement we've seen throughout the week.

David Widmar, Ag Economic Insights, joins the program to discuss midweek markets, fertilizer and the impact on inputs from actions in Washington D.C. Dr. Robert Johansson, Director of Economics and Policy Analysis for the American Sugar Alliance, talks about the organization's work across the country from Washington Watch. Amy France, President of National Sorghum Producers, talks about growing mi...

Michael Shane, Vice President of Ag Lending at CBI Bank and Trust, discusses the cost of equipment on planting budgets. Danielle Beck, Corn Refiner's Association, discusses the outlook for a Farm Bill in the next week or so from Washington Watch in D.C. Mary Stewart, United Soybean Board, talks about her role on a food committee as an officer of USB from the Washington Watch event.

Toni Dunker, Advanced Trading, talks cattle prices and livestock markets. David Brint, Walnut Grove Meat, joins the program for part two of a Meaty Monday segment on the Illinois business. Eric Schmidt, EJS Weather, has a look at an active weather week.

Clayton Charles, FS Grain, joins the program to wrap up the market week. Brad Zwilling, Illinois Farm Business and Farm Management and regular FarmDoc contributor, talks about the cost to produce corn and soybeans in Illinois in 2025. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey has a look at the forecast.

Brendan Bachman, FS Agronomy Director at Growmark, discusses the features of an AI agent in the FS My Agronomy app. Paul Stoddard, Senior Lecturer at the College of ACES, University of Illinois Extension, talks about his teaching experience shortly before his retirement.

Angie Setzer, Consus Ag Marketing, joins the program to discuss weather and the markets. Raelynn Parmely, Illinois Farm Bureau Economic and Policy Analyst, discusses USDA statistics and services. John Bozarth, Director of Gas Transmission and High Pressure Distributing, discusses natural gas pipeline safety as digging and project season ramps up.

Scott Meyer, Ursa Farmers CoOp, joins the program to discuss planting season and markets. Nick Frederking, Agrigold Agronomist, talks about agronomy considerations during planting season and unusual weather.

Matt Bennett, AgMarket. Net, joins the program to talk rain, markets and planting season. David and Hayden Brint, Walnut Grove Meats, talk family business for Meaty Monday. WHOI Meterologist Balint Szalavari has a look at the forecast.

Clayton Pope, Clayton Pope Commodities, joins the program to discuss a day-long comeback from a significant drop in the crude oil markets and what that could mean for soybeans. Profit Watch 101 with Johnna Fulcher, a student at Illinois State University. Nick Hausen, Hausen Weather, previews an eventful weather weekend.

Aaron Curtis, MidCo Commodities, describes a somewhat uneventful market day, outside of a move in the Kansas City wheat market, for this week's Growmark segment. Jennifer Killian, Marketing Manager at the IAA Credit Union, talks about National Credit Union Youth Month. University of Illinois students talk about their theoretical products competing at the National Ag Marketing Assocation Conference...

Jacob Kleinberg, Roach Ag, joins the program to discuss movement in the corn and soybean markets. Mike Bernhard, First Mid Ag Services, talks about how a farm manager gets started and scales. Illinois State University students competing at the National Association of Agrimarketers describe their contest entries: theoretical ag tech they're pitching to judges.

Garrett Toay, Ag Trader Talk, joins the program from a rainy Jo Daviess County to talk about planting and markets. Scott Jensen, Lead Financial Planning Consultant on Country Financial's Advance Markets team, looks back at the data from the first quarter of the year.

Tom Dosdall, Stone X, discusses a downward trend for corn as a new market week kicks off. Mark and Justin Hibshman, Headon's Fine Meats in Creston, Illinois, discuss summer brat deliveries for Meaty Monday. Meteorologist Jim Rasor discusses an active weather week expected ahead.

Stephen Nicholson, Rabo Ag, joins the program to wrap up the market week. Kevin Lighty, WCIA Meteorolgist out of Champaign, says the weather service points to circling threats throughout the week. Zack Hinthorn, Agribusinesses Underwriter for Country Financial, talks about staying safe and avoiding collisions during planting season, while making sure you're properly covered if it happens

Mark Miller, Product Manager of Potash and Phosphates at Growmark, discusses the impact of global conflict on the availability of ammonia and sulfur. Dr. Maria Boerngen, Illinois State University, talks Farm Management from the Land Values Conference. Dr. Michael Langemeier, Director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue University, breaks down the latest results of the monthly Ag Eco...

Sherman Newlin, Risk Management Commodities, a division of Zaner Ag Hedge, joins the program from his tractor cab as he plants corn to discuss midweek markets. Ed Kasper, Kasper Ag Solutions, talks about the technology for farmers to have top of mind as they return to plant the fields.

Barry Eakle, Platinum Group LLC, talks rainfall, planting season and market outlooks. Ryan Hypke, Portfolio Manager at Country Trust Bank, joins the program for a discussion on the first quarter 2026 economic insights report.

Darren Frye, Water Street Consulting, joins the program to discuss a quiet start to the corn and soybeans market week as crude oil's future remains uncertain. Cheesewich inventor Tony Migacz discusses the creation of the hard salami and cheese snack, based in Illinois, for Meaty Monday. Chris Yates, Meteorologist for WMBD-TV in Peoria, takes a look at the forecast for the week ahead and rain chanc...

Mark Gold, Managing Director at Stone X, kicks off a new market month with crude oil breaking hard overnight, rain across the country and falling corn and wheat. Rerun of a previous interview on a closed market day. Brad Zwilling, Illinois Farm Business Farm Management and FarmDoc Daily Contributor, discusses new worth components with RFD Radio Network's Jim Taylor. Cyle Dickens, Meteorologist at...

Dan Pannier, Propane Operations Manager at Growmark, says everyone's eyes are on crude oil as instability continues to impact market prices. From the Land Values Conference, Dr. David Kohl, Professor Emeritus at Virgina Tech, expans on how conflict in the Middle East is having an effect on the markets he studies. Luke Worrell, Worrell Land Services in Jacksonville and co-chair of the Land Values C...

Mark Gold, Managing Director at Stone X, kicks off a new market month with crude oil breaking hard overnight, rain across the country and falling corn and wheat. Doug Yoder, Crop Sales Leader at Country Financial, introduces Jason Maschoff, who will be taking his place as he prepares to retire. Jayson Gosselin, Meteorologist at National Weather Service St. Louis, discusses the rain we've been seei...

Joe Camp, Commstock Investments, discusses market impacts resulting from a prospective planting report. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall discusses life on the farm from the Washington D.C. National Ag Day celebration. Also at the Washington National Ag Day celebration, National Pork Producers Council's Rob Brenneman describes a multi-generation farm in Iowa.

Jacob Burks, AgMarket. Net, joins the program to talk about a new market week. Curt Zehr, Zehr Farm Premium Pork, discusses ham for Meaty Monday ahead of Easter weekend. Meteorologist Dennis Michelson takes a look at the weather.