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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  • The Bluewhite retrofit kit includes LiDAR (the white-and-black cylinder toward the top of the photo) and optical cameras to help a tractor make its way through a field safely. There's also, as a very last resort, a physical bumper that acts as a kill switch if it bumps against anything. (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    Autonomy on Tap for Bluewhite

    Bluewhite is pitching a retrofit kit that can turn any tractor autonomous. It's trying to entrench now on the West Coast but has ambition to expand to new crops and farms in the coming years.

  • A crowd packs in at the FIRA USA event, in Salinas, California, to see the WeedSpider robot, one of more than a dozen self-driving autonomous machines featured. (DTN photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    Farm Robots Common but Face Hurdles

    As the new ag age approaches, some questions remain. Autonomy isn't easy: not the technology, the hardware, nor getting it all in the field to work comfortably with farmers. Still, the tremendous potential of autonomy beckons from...

  • A crowd packs in at the FIRA USA event, in Salinas, California, to see the WeedSpider robot, one of more than a dozen self-driving autonomous machines featured. (Joel Reichenberger)

    Farm Robots May Be More Common as Autonomy Hurdles Remain

    As new ag age approaches, some questions remain.