Articles by Hannah Pagel

The Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations to fill five open seats on the National Organic Standards Board.

David Hollinrake has been appointed to head of global seeds strategy and portfolio for Syngenta, and BIO tapped Michelle McMurry-Heath as the next president and CEO.

The American Egg Board has selected Emily Metz as its new president and CEO. She'll begin her time with AEB in June.

Willette Crawford was appointed to California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement and Hank Giclas retires from Western Growers

Farmers, employees, consumers, and residents in communities such as Waterloo, Iowa, can only hope the changes Tyson Foods has made in its sprawling pork processing plant there will soon have workers safely processing hogs again at something close to full capacity.

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom butchering.

Cindy Nickerson has been named deputy chief economist at USDA and CAST has selected Alexa Lamm as the recipient of the 2020 Borlaug CAST Communication Award.

Vice President Mike Pence will be in Iowa today to meet with a group of food supply chain CEOs, agriculture leaders, and government officials.

Index Fresh has tapped Steve Roodzant as the new CEO and Kori Tuggle has joined Braga Fresh.

J.B. Penn has retired from John Deere after five decades in agriculture, including time at USDA. Brian Quintenz won't seek renomination to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.