Bill Watts, Editor, Pro Farmer

Bill Watts

Editor, Pro Farmer

Bill Watts is the Editor of Pro Farmer, bringing over three decades of expertise as a financial and agricultural journalist. His career has spanned the globe’s most influential financial hubs—including London, Frankfurt, New York, and Washington, D.C.—where he has provided deep-dive analysis on commodity markets, international politics, and economic policy. A central Illinois native raised on a grain and livestock farm, Bill’s perspective is rooted in the field. He began his career covering the trading floors of the CME and CBOT, bridging the gap between the farm gate and the global market.

Making the case for E15; Fed independence fears; Brazil meatpackers feel heat from China quotas
EU-Mercosur agreement; hiring slows; Trump, oil execs meet on Venezuela; no tariff ruling; USDA data deluge ahead
1995 may offer the best guide to what’s ahead for the greenback: BofA
Dollar down years; teaming up on biofuels; fading La Niña; Venezuela vote; Brazil scrambles egg export record
Can ag commodities play catchup with industrial metals?; Brazil’s beef crown; flipping the food pyramid; bringing the heat on E15
December cattle trade delivered profit for 18th straight year
Farmer sentiment weakens; USDA’s new chief economist; ethanol breaks the ‘blend wall’
Gold rally raises eyebrows; Argy weather in focus; room for commodities in portfolios; grain traders quit Amazon deforestation pact
Oil market remains a wild card after U.S. capture of Maduro
Trump: ‘We’ll be selling large amounts of oil to other countries’