2024 Ag Summit Series

New Year, New Administration … New Markets? |  December 2024

Day 1

• Start | Length :30
• Dan Miller, America’s Best Young Farmers and Ranchers | Length 51:01
• Chris Clayton, Jerry Hagstrom | Length 47:03
• Gregg Hillyer | Length 8:01

New Year, New Administration … New Markets? |  December 2024

Day 2

• Welcome | Length 1:20
• John Baranick | Length 46:47
• Rhett Montgomery | Length 42:48
• Q & A | Length 22:05
• ShaLe Stewart | Length 36:11
• Greg Horstmeier | Length 11:14

Weather Drives Price Prospects for Remainder of 2024 |  August 2024

• Welcome | Length :49
• John Baranick Introduction | Length 1:59
• John Baranick Slides | Length 32:37
• Todd Hultman Introduction | Length 2:35
• Todd Hultman Slides | Length 43:05
• John & Todd Q&A | Length 18:20
• Editor’s Analysis | Length 9:09

Navigating the 2024 Cattle Market |  June 2024

• Welcome with Katie Dehlinger | Length 1:51
• Cody Dvorak | Length 23:04
• Questions for Cody Dvorak | Length 17:32
• ShayLe Stewart | Length 37:38
• Questions for ShayLe Stewart | Length 9:25
• Editor’s Analysis | Length 8:55

Craft a Game Plan for Tough Weather, Prices |  March 2024

• Start | Length :15
• Welcome with Katie Dehlinger | Length 1:30
• John Baranick | Length 29:06
• Todd Hultman | Length 40:25
• Q&A | Length 20:32

Katie Dehlinger

Farm Business Editor / DTN

DTN Farm Business Editor Katie Dehlinger leads our live virtual summit series. An Illinois native, she regularly reports on tax and estate planning, farmland values, and other issues that impace an operation’s bottom line. Before joining DTN, Dehlinger was an executive producer at RFD-TV. Katie Dehlinger graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Journalism in news/editorial writing and minors in history and sociology.

John Baranick

DTN Ag Meteorologist

John Baranick has been a meteorologist with DTN since 2011. John uses his forecasts to comment on the impacts weather has on different industries while helping customers make important business decisions. His commentary has been received by clients in the aviation, transportation, energy, and agriculture industries worldwide.

John graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology and a minor in agronomy.

Rhett Montgomery

DTN Lead Analyst

Growing up on a western Nebraska farm observing his father’s common-sense approach to markets, Rhett Montgomery worked as a grain merchandiser before a stint with a Nebraska grain brokerage firm.

Rhett’s approach to commodity markets combines staying mindful of seasonal price tendencies, paying attention to non-commercial positions in the market, and the use of forward contracts and other pricing tools to limit risk.

Rhett holds a B.A in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Greg Horstmeier

DTN Editor-in-Chief

Greg Horstmeier joined DTN in 2007 as production editor before advancing to editor-in-chief in 2010. Today Greg oversees the staff who produce news, weather, and markets content for DTN digital and Progressive Farmer print platforms.

Previously he served as Director of the “Extension and Agriculture Information News“ office at the University of Missouri, the technology editor for Farm Journal, and the crops editor of The Pennsylvania Farmer. Horstmeier graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with an agriculture journalism degree with an emphasis in agriculture economics and photo journalism.