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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
The White House on Wednesday announced five new appointments to state-level positions with the Agriculture Department, including the Farm Service Agency's state directors for Kentucky, Missouri and Nebraska.
The Biden administration on Friday named nine new appointees to oversee the Agriculture Department's farm and rural development programs at the state level.
The Biden administration expects to start distributing the first dollars from the new, bipartisan infrastructure bill in the first half of 2022, but it is likely to take significantly longer for farmers and rural Americans to see some of the long-sought spending.
The new leader of USDA's rural development efforts wants to underscore the importance and diversity of farm country in her actions as undersecretary, offering priorities that mirror the Biden White House and Vilsack Department of Agriculture in the process.
The Biden administration has made its first appointments of state directors for the Agriculture Department's Farm Service Agency and Rural Development division.
A stopgap-funding bill that will keep the government operating this fall includes a $10 billion expansion in agricultural disaster aid and temporarily extends authority for USDA’s livestock price reporting system.
