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Chip’s hometown of Oxford Junction is in east-central Iowa. His family farm was a typical diversified farm with corn, soybeans, oats, alfalfa, a commercial cattle herd, a farrow-to-finish hog operation and sheep. After graduating from Iowa State University, Chip joined Pro Farmer in January 1988 as a floor reporter for Futures World News. He spent 3 years in Chicago reporting from the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Chip moved to Pro Farmer headquarters in April 1991, was named editor in 1997 and remained in that role for 17 years. In 2014 he started the P.M. hour of AgriTalk and became the host of both hours of AgriTalk in 2019.

Greg Peterson, known as Machinery Pete, has built a network of 950 regional auctioneers, 600 ag lenders, 2,000 implement dealers and thousands of farmers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Since 1989, Machinery Pete has compiled more than 500,000 auction prices on used farm and construction equipment sold throughout North America. A widely sought-out speaker, Peterson regularly presents to farmer and investor audiences. He has more than 44,000 Facebook fans. In 2014, his YouTube videos tallied 6 million minutes. In 2015, Machinery Pete launched a dealer listings site with analytics and marketing services for equipment dealers. Peterson is the multimedia expert on used equipment values for Farm Journal Media, including print and broadcast. Going into its third season, Machinery Pete TV, a weekly 30-minute show, launched on RFD-TV in November 2013.

Tyne Morgan is doing what she calls her dream job. She’s a Missouri girl who has generations of agriculture rooted in her blood. Born and raised in Lexington, Mo., FFA was a big part of her high school career. Her father is an agriculture teacher/FFA Advisory and was her biggest supporter/teacher. Through public speaking and various contest teams, she actually plunged into broadcast at the young age of 16. While in high school, she worked at KMZU radio providing the daily farm market updates, as well as local, state and national agriculture news. Today, Tyne is the first female host of U.S. Farm Report and resides in rural Missouri with her husband and two daughters where she has a passion for helping support her local community.

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