Greg D. Horstmeier

Greg Horstmeier has been editor-in-chief in July 2010 of the DTN/PF digital newsroom since 2010. He joined DTN in 2007 as production editor, covering crops and farm technologies.His career in journalism includes serving as director of the Extension and Agriculture Information News office at the University of Missouri, and as a writer, photographer and crops editor for Farm Journal Magazine, for the Pennsylvania Farmer, and for the Missouri Ruralist. He's covered agriculture and rural issues in almost every state, and eight foreign countries.Over the course of that career he has won numerous writing and photography awards from organizations such as the American Agricultural Editors Association (AAEA), National Association of Agricultural Journalists and the Mid-American Crop Protection Association. He also co-wrote one of the first international studies on farmer attitudes on biotechnology and other 21st-century production practices. Horstmeier graduated from the University of Missouri --Columbia with a degree in agriculture journalism with an emphasis in agriculture economics and photojournalism.Horstmeier graduated from the University of Missouri --Columbia with a degree in agriculture journalism with emphasis in agriculture economics and in photojournalism. He grew up on a general crop and livestock farm in central Missouri. Horstmeier lives in Omaha and is active in managing family farmland and other interests in Missouri.