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 Lon Tonneson
Editor, Dakota Farmer
6258 90th Ave., N
Glyndon, MN 56547
Tel: 218-236-8420
Fax: 218-236-1134
ltonneson@farmprogress.com
Lon has covered Dakota and Minnesota agriculture for 25 years. A South Dakota State University graduate, Lon worked on several weekly newspapers in South Dakota and southwest Minnesota before joining the staff of The Farmer magazine in 1980.
"I wanted to write about the biggest business in the Midwest – and that was agriculture," Lon says. "It turned out to be a good choice. Agriculture is still one the biggest industries in the region today and there are constantly new things to cover."
The Farmer assigned Lon to the Red River Valley. For one of his first assignments, he teamed up with a veteran freelance reporter to investigate loan programs targeting financially distressed farmers. The story exposed an advanced fee loan fraud scheme being run out of Winnipeg, Canada, and won the freelancer and Lon writer of the year awards from the American Agricultural Editors Association.
Since then, Lon has won several writing and photo awards, including most recently Best Team Story for a Farm Progress article, "Farming in the face of war." The article focused on how farmers were coping with changes in the industry after the bombing of the World Trade Center.
Lon grew up on a hobby farm. As a teenager he raised horses, dairy calves and pickles and worked for a neighboring farmer. His interest in alternative enterprises continues. For the past 15 years, Lon and his family have operated a fall entertainment farm – the Lon Pumpkin Patch. It attracts thousands of visitors from the Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., area each year.
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