Agri-Pulse staff

Brad Hooker, who has been leading Agri-Pulse Communications’ coverage of food and agriculture policy in California since 2019, has been named the company’s first Sacramento bureau chief.

Oliver Ward has joined the Agri-Pulse editorial team as the digital media firm’s international trade editor.

Kenneth Bader, longtime head of the American Soybean Association, died Saturday in Chesterfield, Missouri. He was 90.

Agri-Pulse Communications is taking applications for a summer 2025 intern who is passionate about reporting on farm, food and rural policy and serving our growing audience. 

Agri-Pulse is pleased to announce Hannah Fonseca has transitioned to the Agri-Pulse sales and marketing team as the digital media firm’s Eastern sales representative.

A federal judge has upheld a state law in Massachusetts banning the sale of pork that comes from the offspring of sows raised in gestation crates.

Agri-Pulse is kicking off its special coverage of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee today and at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month. 

Agri-Pulse is hosting a webinar on July 11 at 1 p.m. EDT that’s focused on what can be done to protect against highly pathogenic avian influenza and other zoonotic diseases that have the potential to disrupt not only our food supply but the entire agriculture economy.

Agri-Pulse is pleased to announce that Chloe Lovejoy will be joining the media company's editorial team as an associate editor, based in Sacramento. She will work with Brad Hooker to expand Agri-Pulse's daily, weekly and special project coverage in California.

California Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer is the winner of Agri-Pulse's Great Tomato Challenge with a tomato plant his staff affectionately named Stanley. The media company is making a $1,000 donation to the Avalon-Carver Community Center, which runs a food distribution program in his south Los Angeles district.