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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2017 - Dudley Hoskins has taken what he hopes will be a very temporary job at USDA. The former public policy counsel for the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture says he’s now a senior adviser with the department’s Marketing and Regulatory Programs.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - The Senate confirmed the nominations of Steve Censky to become deputy agriculture secretary and Ted McKinney to be the Agriculture Department’s first undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2017 - Jay Vroom says he’s retiring as CropLife America’s president and CEO at the end of 2018. That would give him more than 30 years at the helm of the largest U.S. trade organization representing manufacturers and distributors of agricultural pesticides.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2017 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is beefing up his press operation at USDA. New to the Communications Office are Meghan Rodgers as press secretary and Jake Wilkins, who most recently was working as a press assistant at the Republican National Committee. Rodgers, a Villanova University alum, had been working for Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla. Wilkins will be picking up his master’s degree in political management from George Washington University in December.

WASHINGTON, Sept 6, 2017 - President Trump is moving to fill some of the top open positions at USDA. Last week he said he intends to nominate Bill Northey, currently Iowa’s agriculture secretary, to be Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation.