Bruce Blythe is a senior editor at Farm Futures. He has covered commodity markets, agribusiness and the farm economy for Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters and Farm Journal Media's Pro Farmer. He got his start in ag news as a wire service reporter writing about the livestock and grain futures markets from the trading floors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.

Blythe also worked as an assistant managing editor at Crain’s Chicago Business and, most recently, as a financial writer and editor for Charles Schwab's Insights & Education editorial team. 

He grew up on his family’s grain and livestock farm outside Williamsburg, Iowa, and holds a degree in agricultural journalism from Iowa State University. He lives in Elmhurst, Ill., with his family.