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Noah Wicks joins the Agri-Pulse editorial team today as an associate editor. 

The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday easily approved the nomination of Janie Simms Hipp, a long-time agricultural law specialist and member of the Chickasaw Nation, to become the Agriculture Department's general counsel.

Tillamook County Creamery Association has hired Peggy Han and MyLand Company has hired Joe Ruiz.

Neil Dierks, who has been at the helm of the National Pork Producers Council for two decades, plans to retire by the end of the year.

The Democratic party's chief rural outreach official takes a new job and some West Coast offices add some new staff on Capitol Hill.

A leading ag youth organization has a new chief staffer, the leader of rural outreach for the Democratic National Committee takes a new job, and more in this week's Farm Hands.

Scott Stump is set to assume the leadership of the National FFA Organization and Foundation next month, the groups jointly announced Wednesday.

USDA has appointed Meryl Harrell as Deputy Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment and Terry Cosby as chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Margaret Zeigler has been tapped to serve as the interim president of the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation.

Danny Dumas has been elected to serve as the chairman of the United Fresh Board of Directors and Nicole Negowetti has joined the Plant Based Foods Association as the new senior director of policy.