Brian Reisinger

Brian Reisinger is an award-winning author and rural policy expert who grew up on a family farm in Sauk County, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared in USA Today , Yahoo News , Newsweek , the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , PBS/Wisconsin Public Radio , and many other publications. Reisinger's debut book Land Rich, Cash Poor won Book of the Year from the nonpartisan Farm Foundation, and his writing has also won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, first place in the Seven Hills...See more

Brian Reisinger is an award-winning author and rural policy expert who grew up on a family farm in Sauk County, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared in USA Today , Yahoo News , Newsweek , the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , PBS/Wisconsin Public Radio , and many other publications. Reisinger's debut book Land Rich, Cash Poor won Book of the Year from the nonpartisan Farm Foundation, and his writing has also won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, first place in the Seven Hills Literary Contest, and a Solas Award. He has given a TEDx talk on threats to our food supply, and discussed rural issues on C-SPAN's Washington Journal , CNN , Fox News , farm radio, and more. Reisinger worked with his dad from the time he could walk, before entering the worlds of business journalism and public policy, then going on to work as a columnist and consultant. He serves as senior writer for Midwestern-based Platform Communications and lives with his wife and daughter, splitting time between Sacramento, California--America's "farm-to-fork capital," near his wife's family--and the family farm in Wisconsin. See less