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Dean Houghton

Dean Houghton returns to The Furrow to cover the Corn Belt from his family crop and sheep farm in Polo, Mo.


Houghton recently served as crops editor at CyberCrop.com. Prior to CyberCrop, Houghton had been editor of The Furrow's Corn Belt and Dairyland editions. He served as Hogs Today editor from 1984 to 1999. He began his career in ag journalism in 1978 as associate editor at Successful Farming magazine.


Houghton was named AAEA's Photographer of the Year in 2001 and is one of the few ag journalists to hold the association's Master Writer and Master Photographer designations.

Larry Reichenberger

Larry Reichenberger is covering the Great Plains from his Andale, Kan., wheat farm just outside of Wichita. He most recently served as senior crops and machinery editor at Successful Farming magazine.


Reichenberger served as Great Plains regional editor for Farm Journal magazine from 1984 to 1996. He was named AAEA's Writer of the Year in 1981 and is a two-time winner of the Oscar in Agriculture.

Steve Werblow

Steve Werblow covers Western agriculture from his home in Ashland, Ore., just north of the California border. A 1988 graduate of Cornell University's College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, he has been a freelance writer since 1995. Werblow has covered agriculture on six continents for an array of magazines including the Oregon and Washington Farmer-Stockman, California Farmer, Crop Production Magazine, Conservation Partners, Beef, and others.


Werblow has received writing awards from both the American Agricultural Editors Association and the Livestock Publications Council. In 2011 he was named AAEA’s Writer of the Year.

Lorne McClinton

Lorne McClinton is covering Canadian agriculture from both his grain farm in Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan and his eastern office in Greenfield Park, Quebec. McClinton has worked as a freelance writer and photographer since 1982 and has specialized in agriculture since 1995. His work has appeared in a wide variety of agriculture, news, and business magazines in Canada and abroad. He has been a regular contributor to Canadian Business, Macleans, Alberta Venture, Le Coopérateur Agricole, National Hog Farmer, Beef, AgriSuccess Journal, Farm Forum, The Western Producer, Top Crop Manager, and many others.


McClinton was recently presented with the Silver award, in the Canadian Farm Writers Federation's press feature category, for his Furrow story, "Brazil's Land-Rush Lessons."
In 2011 he was presented with a gold medal for photography from the CFWA.

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