Joel Reichenberger

Progressive Farmer Senior Editor
Joel Reichenberger

Joel Reichenberger has been hired as Senior Editor for The Progressive Farmer. Joel will oversee the photography of the magazine as well as reporting on precision agriculture, soil health and other topics.

He grew up on a wheat farm in south central Kansas and graduated from Kansas State University, majoring in print journalism, electronic journalism and history. Joel has reported on agriculture from around the world working as a freelancer, and for the last 15 years has been a full-time sportswriter and photographer for several newspapers. He lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, with his wife, Jacki, and daughter, Lydia.

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