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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, December 20, 2024
Former Sorghum Checkoff Chair Verity Ulibarri was elected U.S. Grains Council board chair at the USGC annual meeting in Salt Lake City. She is the second sorghum sector representative to chair the council board in recent history. USDA promoted Carlton Bridgeforth to White House liaison.
The International Food Information Council has appointed Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak as the new CEO and Superfresh Growers has selected Conner O’Malley to succeed Tim Lane as president.
Alyssa Charney now serves as the director for lands and climate-smart agriculture in the climate policy office at the White House and Adam Hodge will be moving to the National Security Council on a detailed assignment as the acting senior director for press and spokesperson.
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program will take on a broader role, with more dollars and longer contracts, as it emerges under 2018 farm bill provisions.
Congress chose the Prairie Pothole Region to try out shorter-term Conservation Reserve Program contracts, infusing the 34-year-old program with lower-cost alternatives for farmers wanting to idle their least productive cropland.
