Hannah Pagel

California Sen. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg has been sworn in as the new Senate president pro tempore and JJ Schlangen has been tapped as the new president of the central region of the United Natural Foods Inc.

Ken Barbic has joined Invariant as a new principal of the food and agriculture practice group and Vestaron has selected Juan Estupinan as the company’s interim CEO and president.

The tax bill that sailed through the House this week is facing a major GOP speed bump in the Senate.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has appointed Katy Mastman as the agency's acting assistant for labor and Thad Bettner is the new executive director of the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors.

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai has appointed Katy Mastman as the acting assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Labor, and the North American Renderers Association has selected Jennifer Wilson to be the association’s new EU-UK Representative.

A Senate ag appropriator says Congress needs to sort through government funding, immigration and farm policy in short order.

Katie Little has joined the California League of Food Producers as the new director of government affairs and Daniel Mathieson has been tapped as the next president of the Americas for Driscoll’s.

Daniel Mathieson has been tapped as the next president of the Americas for Driscoll’s, and Stacy McBride has been named Husch Blackwell Strategies’ first executive vice president of federal government affairs.