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Roger has been with Pro Farmer for more than 20 years, joining the company in 1986. Starting in 1987, Roger was in Pro Farmer’'s Washington office for the next 11 years, returning to the Cedar Falls headquarters in 1998.Since 2001, Roger has served as News Editor for Pro Farmer, helping to direct the news coverage for Pro Farmer Newsletter, Pro Farmer Today and other products, and has continued his focus on Washington policy issues. He has also played an active role in AgWeb.com and has been a regular contributor to AgDay Television. Additionally, Roger serves as the Policy and Washington Edtior fro Farm Journal magazine. Roger and his wife live on a small acreage in rural Grundy County, Iowa.

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Mike Walsten has covered major business trends in agriculture for more than 35 years. From the southern corn leaf blight of 1970 to today’'s biofuels focus, he’'s lived, reported and analyzed the impact of volatile markets on farm and ranch businesses and on land prices. After growing up on a grain and livestock farm in Western Illinois, Mike graduated from the University of Illinois with an undergraduate degree in agriculture communications and a master’'s degree in business administration in the early 1970s. Since then he’'s covered business and management issues as well as price outlook and marketing issues in various positions with Farm Journal Magazine and Professional Farmers of America. He now applies his extensive background and analytical skills to today’'s surprising farm and ranch market as editor of LandOwner.