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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2017 - Members of the United Soybean Board have selected Polly Ruhland to serve as their next Chief Executive Officer, succeeding current CEO John Becherer who plans to retire at the end of 2017 after more than 20 years of service to the checkoff.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has named Tony Tooke as the next chief of the U.S. Forest Service, succeeding Tom Tidwell, who is retiring effective Sept. 1.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - Goodbye, Al. After a 39-year stint in USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, Al Almanza retired from public service on July 31.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - It’s official. President Trump has nominated the American Soybean Association’s longtime CEO, Steve Censky, to be deputy agriculture secretary.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - Darci Vetter, former chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative, has been named diplomat in residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - President Trump intends to nominate Peter Davidson, senior vice president for congressional relations at Verizon Communications, as general counsel at the Commerce Department.
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - President Trump has nominated Gregg Doud, the president of the Commodity Markets Council and a farm policy veteran, to be the administration’s chief agricultural negotiator under the U.S. Trade Representative.
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