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As Farm Director, Al Pell has returned to his roots by hosting AgWeb Radio. Launched in February, AgWeb Radio includes three market reports posted each trading day. Updates are available at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and feature a deep and experienced roster of market experts who offer up-to-the-minute analysis of what’s moving the commodity markets. Before joining AgDay Television in 1989, Al worked for a dozen years at WIBC Radio in Indianapolis, Ind. A graduate of Purdue University with a degree in agriculture, Al still owns and operates a 400-acre farm near Brazil, Ind.

Moe Russell is president of Russell Consulting Group in Panora, Iowa. He provides risk management advice to clients in 34 states and Canada. For more risk management tips, visit his website at www.russellconsultinggroup.net. To submit questions, call (877) 333-6135 or e-mail thebottomline@farmjournal.com.

John is the National Editor at Farm Journal. Doing a little bit of everything, he covers “big picture” stories and conservation issues. He was born and raised near Mexico, Mo. on a beef cattle farm, graduating from the University of Missouri – Columbia with degrees in wildlife biology and forest management, with a minor in Agronomy. He worked for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation as a land management biologist where he was responsible for sharecrop contracts with local farmers on state land. He also helped establish the first program within the Dept. that made allowances for wildlife habitat within complex cropping systems focusing on soil conservation practices like reduced tillage and warm season grass establishment. He authored the booklet “Farming and Wildlife in Missouri which showed farmers how they could manage positively for wildlife populations with practices like narrow row soybeans and paddock grazing. He has been a landscape designer and contractor, marketer for McDonalds restaurants in Europe, Mexico and the States and a graphic designer of product packaging. Before joining Farm Journal, he published a popular regional entertainment newspaper called “The Little Dixie Weekender.” He resides on the family farm with an adopted English setter. Contact John jbucnker@farmjournal.com 573-581-9643 Farm Journal P.O. Box 958 Mexico, MO 65265

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Diane comes from the University of Missouri, where she has 19 years’ experience as an editor, executive staff assistant and Printing Services employee. Diane is originally from the Mexico, Mo., area and graduated from Truman State University with a degree in mass communications. She also has an IT certificate from North Central Missouri College, where she worked in public relations for three years. Her farm roots, communication skills and attention to detail are a great fit for Farm Journal Media. In her role, she proofreads and copyedits all print publications, as well as press releases and marketing materials. Contact Diane ddavis@farmjournal.com 573-581-9643 Farm Journal P.O. Box 958 Mexico, MO 65265

Jonie Mackey comes to Farm Journal Media from previous employment as an accounting assistant at the Poet Bio refining ethanol plant in Laddonia, Mo. She also has considerable retail and customer service experience. Jonie has lived in mid-Missouri all her life. Her ties to agriculture go back to earlier years in raising hogs, cattle and horses. She and her husband, Michael, are part of a small family cattle farm in northern Callaway County. She enjoys all outdoor activities including hunting in both gun and archery seasons. They have one son, who serves in the United States Navy as a petty officer 2nd class master at arms. Contact Jonie jmackey@farmjournal.com 573-581-9641 Farm Journal P.O. Box 958 Mexico, MO 65265

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