Katie Dehlinger

Progressive Farmer Editor-in-Chief
Katie Micik Dehlinger

Katie Dehlinger grew up near the Illinois-Wisconsin border in Rockton, Ill., and graduated from the University of Missouri in 2009 with a bachelor's of journalism in news/editorial writing and minors in history and sociology.

She's filled a number of roles at DTN, including nearly five years as the Markets Editor, where she covered commodities markets and marketing strategies in addition to USDA report lockups. She spent several years as the Executive Producer for RFDTV's daily news programs, Market Day Report and the Rural Evening News. She's now back at DTN, this time as the Farm Business Editor, where her reporting focuses on tax and estate planning, farmland values, health care and other issues that affect farmers' bottom lines.

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  • According to the U.S. Wheat Associates, U.S. wheat exports are up 17 percent from last year. (bfk92, Getty Images)

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    Wheat exports were 17% higher than the year before as of the end of January. With prices stalling and input prices rising, the growing list of million-metric-ton export destinations is a bright spot among the crop's challenges.