Author

Johnathan Hettinger focuses on pesticide coverage for Investigate Midwest. Growing up in central Illinois, Johnathan saw and had family members working in all aspects of agribusiness, from boots-in-the-field farming and raising livestock to spreading fertilizer, managing grain elevators and trading commodities. Johnathan is a proud 2015 graduate of the University of Illinois, where he worked for four years at The Daily Illini. After graduation, Johnathan worked at The News-Gazette, the daily newspaper in Champaign, Ill., where he covered the Champaign and Urbana municipal governments and the University of Illinois.