The small world of commodity market analysis can be hard to crack, especially for one gender in the 1980’s. Not only has Sue Martin busted through the door, she’s now well regarded in the field and highly sought after on the speaking tour. She talks about her time with Mark Pearson on the road and how the term 50-50 describes her analysis.

Cuba has been off-limits for Americans since the Kennedy Administration. Now trade missions are laying groundwork for future economic activity. And U.S. journalists are making their way to the land just south of Florida. Josh Buettner traveled to the island nation and talks about the land of classic cars, horsedrawn carriages and goats eating garbage.

Many of our market analysts spend time travelling from conferences and seminars on the rubber chicken circuit. Sometimes, the accommodations are out of the country. Ted Seifried shares one of his greatest travel stories from Jamaica.

He also mentions some of his favorites on Twitter naming many of our stable current stable like @DarinNewsom, @Goddessofgrain and @NaomiBlohm. He also mentions others in the podcast. Check out some of who @thetedspread follows for more.

Farm labor just got a boost in California and in other places, farms need hands to do the job. Colleen Bradford Krantz talks to us about the H2A Visas plus the debate over antibiotic use in animal production and how two companies are taking two very different approaches to the topic. Our producer brings us up to speed about the efforts involving Perdue Meats and Sanderson Farms.

Farmers face criticism over land use. John Roach lays out his response the comments plus offering how U.S. farmers are viewed in other countries. Our senior market analyst lays out how successful farmers may be using their brains more than their backs now and why that had to happen.

We often look at government report release dates to see how close Darin Newsom’s (@darinnewsom) appearance is on Market to Market.  We know his disdain for USDA’s numbers makes decent television, but puts our guest in a mood.

Elaine Kub headed to college to be an engineer.

Ted Seifried gained the name Tank while in high school.

Life travels down a road we don't always get to determine which turn it takes on us. 

Take Angie Setzer for example. She was going through her early education classes when she looked around the room to determine there was going to be a huge supply of teachers in 4 years. A realization and early adoption of supply and demand changed her path.

Our newest market analyst is this week's guest on MtoM.  

You can follow Angie on Twitter here.

We’re not one to pick on millennials, in fact, they are a key part of our program. We have many working with us at Iowa Public Television including one on Market to Market.