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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Scott Herndon has joined Corteva as the new head of US Government and Industry Affairs and Jill LeVake has accepted the role of Corteva’s state government and industry affairs western regional director.
In this opinion piece, Jamie Clark, President and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, says Congress must allocate sufficient funds for wildlife conservation to prioritize healthy, biodiverse habitats and combat the effects of climate change.
Church Brothers Farms has added Martin Sotelo as the new senior director of raw product procurement for the U.S. and Mexico and Mike Reed has been promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Stater Bros.
USA Rice’s board of directors have tapped Peter Bachmann as the next CEO of the organization and Deanna Kovar has been named as the new president of John Deere’s Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division.
The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Wednesday to restore automatic protections for species listed as “threatened," as the Biden administration moved to roll back a Trump-era overhaul of the way the Endangered Species Act is implemented.
Joe Shultz is the new executive director of the newly launched Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation and Jaime Adams has been tapped as the new senior policy adviser for climate at USDA.
Environmental groups are pushing the state water board to increase freshwater flows by trimming out senior rights holders through an emergency regulation.
Conservation groups praised the Biden administration’s first step in conserving 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030, but the nation’s largest farm group said the initiative still lacks specifics, and a key farm-state senator said he was worried about removing too much land from production.