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EXPERTS TO CONVENE TO DISCUSS GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY AND DEMAND, RISING FOOD PRICES, AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Downes-O’Neill/FCStone Outlook Conference to Bring Together Analysts and Authorities on Grains, Livestock, Dairy, Biofuels, and World Weather Outlook

Chicago, May 1, 2008 – Downes-O’Neill, a division of FCStone, LLC, today announced the agenda for its 2008 Outlook Conference, which will be focused largely on what some analysts are describing as a looming crisis in the production, pricing, and distribution of food supplies across the globe.

The 5^th Annual Outlook Conference, to be held June 18 – 19 in Chicago, is a gathering of respected analysts, economists, and traders with expertise in the economic forces governing the production and processing of food, in particular dairy and grains.

This year’s conference comes as Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and World Bank head Robert Zoellick, among other global leaders, warn of deepening shortages and rising food prices that will affect the developing world and developed Western countries alike.

The reasons for rising food prices and shortages, as well as practical solutions that food producers, processors and distributors can use to deal with this growing problem, will be among the topics discussed by the speakers at this year’s Outlook Conference.

The keynote speaker for this year’s conference will be Todd Buchholz, former director of economic policy at the White House, managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund, and author of Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social Upheavals that Will Shake our Financial Future.

Siva Yam, the president of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce and a member of the advisory board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will address the growing importance of the Chinese economy and its food export and export outlook.

Climatologist Drew Lerner, who also addressed last year’s conference – and predicted this year’s harsh winter in the U.S. – will be back to offer his predictions for global weather patterns and their impact on growing seasons, grain supplies and food production.

Downes-O’Neill/FCStone economist Bill Brooks will offer his perspective on the changing fundamentals of the dairy market and what they will mean for prices at the wholesale and retail level. Ken Bailey, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Penn State University and a consultant to Downes-O’Neill/FCStone, also will address the dairy market outlook, and will discuss the use of econometric models to forecast commodity prices. And FCStone’s David Smoldt will discuss the outlook for U.S. grain production.

Other speakers will address soft commodities; energy and biofuels; the outlook for the U.S. dollar and world currencies, the outlook for Latin America; and the trading of carbon credits.

The 2008 Outlook Conference will be the first held by Downes-O’Neill to be an “all-green” conference. It will be held at the Deloitte Building, 111 S. Wacker in Chicago, the first multiple-tenant office building anywhere to receive a “Gold” rating from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council. Attendees will be offered the opportunity by Downes-O’Neill/FCStone to offset their share of carbon emissions

A complete agenda for the 2008 Outlook Conference can be found at http://www.dairy.nu/outlook/outlook.asp. Persons interested in attending this conference can contact Downes-O’Neill/FCStone’s Kelly Czachor at kelly.czachor@fcstone.com or 312-456-3624. Media representatives interested in covering the conference should contact Kelly Sherman at kelly.sherman@fcstone.com.

About Downes-O’Neill

Downes-O’Neill, a division of FCStone, LLC, trades more dairy futures and options than any other brokerage group. Downes-O’Neill’s brokers are registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and are members of the National Futures Association (NFA.)

Downes-O’Neill’s eDairy division provides the dairy industry with accurate, timely and relevant information on dairy futures and options and dairy price-risk management.

About FCStone Group, Inc.

FCStone Group, Inc., along with its affiliates, is an integrated commodity risk management company providing risk management consulting and transaction execution services to commercial commodity intermediaries, end-users and producers. The firm assists primarily middle market customers in optimizing their profit margins and mitigating exposure to commodity price risk. In addition to risk management consulting services, FCStone, LLC, operates one of the leading independent clearing and execution platforms for exchange-traded futures and options contracts. FCStone Group, Inc. serves more than 7,500 customers and in the 12 months ended February 29, 2008, executed 86.3 million derivative contracts in the exchange-traded and over-the-counter markets. The FCStone Group companies work in all the major commodity areas including agriculture, energy, renewable fuels, foods, forestry, cotton and textile, dairy and currency exchange. Headquartered in the Midwest, it has offices located throughout the world and is a clearing member of all major North American Futures exchanges. FCStone Group, Inc. trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "FCSX."

There is a substantial risk of loss in trading futures and options. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The information and data in this report were obtained from sources considered reliable. Their accuracy or completeness is not guaranteed and the giving of the same is not to be deemed as an offer or solicitation on our part with respect to the sale or purchase of any securities or commodities.

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