Flagging Fundamentals

Darin Newsom

DTN/The Progressive Farmer Senior Analyst Darin Newsom, provides the company's customers with commodity market insight and oversees all of its market commentary.  Newsom has more than 20 years of experience analyzing commodity markets and developing proven risk-management strategies.

As an industry-leading market analyst, Newsom provides insight and in-depth commentary on all commodities, including grains, precious metals and energy-related markets, and the national or international events that move them.  He routinely customizes his analysis to provide market agriculture professionals, commercial commodity traders and hedge fund investors.  Newsom's articles and expert commentary are consistently featured in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones MarketWatch, Stocks Futures & Options Magazine and on CNBC-TV, in addition to multiple newspapers and radio stations throughout the country.

Flagging Fundamentals:  What To Do When Ag Futures Follow the Dow.

This session, presented by DTN senior analyst Darin Newsom, focuses on the "investment" money flooding into ag-commodity markets.  Do supply and demand fundamentals matter any more?  How can farmers manage their risk in these fast-changing markets?

Key benefits for those in attendance:

Outside market forces, most notably the gyrations of global financial markets, play an increasing role in influencing both short-term and long-term price direction of agricultural commodities.  Those in attendance will learn about these changing dynamics and their implications for risk management strategies and decisions.

What action or change might a grower take after attending the session:

After attending this session, a grower will take the movements of markets other than agriculture commodities into account when making marketing decisions, and profit as a result.