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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Stacy Dean, deputy undersecretary of agriculture for food, nutrition and consumer services, will step down from her position in July. She led the Biden administration's update of the Thrifty Food Plan and was nominated twice to be undersecretary but the Senate returned her nomination both times.
Kelly Cushman has been named vice president of political affairs at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Dave Juday has joined Aimpoint Research as a member of its Executive Advisory Group.
Caleb Crosswhite is joining the Republican staff of the Senate Ag Committee as the new chief counsel and James Glueck is taking a new job with the Corn Refiners Association.
Northern California Democrat Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, has been selected as the next state Senate leader, succeeding Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego.
Jim Jones has been selected by the Food and Drug Administration to serve as the first deputy commissioner for human foods and Pivot Bio has named Chris Abbott as the new CEO.
Gregg Doud has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation and Roberta Wagner has been named senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the International Dairy Foods Association.
The Department of Agriculture has tapped Ellen Luger as the next minister counselor of agriculture in Rome for the Foreign Agricultural Service and Erica Chabot is the new majority staff director for the Senate Agriculture Committee,
A majority of U.S. farmers are at least somewhat concerned about climate change, and nearly half are using or considering practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new Agri-Pulse survey of U.S. farmers.