Articles by Hannah Pagel

Martha Scott Poindexter will be returning to the Senate Agriculture Committee as staff director for GOP Sen. John Boozman, and the American Seed Trade Association has hired Senate Ag Veteran Janae Brady.

Rep. Jim Costa was not the top pick of the Democratic Steering Committee to chair the House Agriculture Committee and Jason Resnick has been promoted to senior vice president and general counsel at Western Growers.

President-elect Joe Biden has announced he will appoint Janet Yellen to the position of treasury secretary and Jason Resnick has been promoted to senior vice president and general counsel at Western Growers.

President-elect Joe Biden has announced his nominees for and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts and has tapped former Secretary of State John Kerry to be the special presidential envoy for climate.

Jenny Holtermann is now the new executive director of the Water Association of Kern County and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has announced she will not pursue leadership on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

President-elect Joe Biden has named the people charged with heading up the transition efforts at different government departments, and the USDA and EPA rosters include a deep slate of Obama administration alums.

Almond Board of California has hired Drew Wolter as the new pest management senior specialist and Agri-Pulse brings on Danielle Brinkmann as a western sales associate.

Multinational giants in retail, agribusiness, meat processing and food manufacturing, along with the largest restaurant chains and leading apparel brands, want U.S. farmers and ranchers to produce food and fiber more sustainably. This is the first of a five-part Agri-Pulse series that looks in-depth at how reductions in greenhouse gas emissions could have far-reaching effects on American farmers and ranchers.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has reorganized the agency and created four new operating divisions, while Nestlé Purina PetCare Co. has tapped Nina Krueger to serve as the company’s new president and CEO.

Tim York has been tapped CEO to California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and Mission Produce promotes Brooke Becker.