Farm Hands on the Potomac: Grill joins SNAC International, Bower takes NCGA gavel, Family Farm Alliance officers elected

SNAC International hired Matt Grill as vice president of advocacy. Ohio corn and soybean farmer Jed Bower begins his tenure as president of the National Corn Growers Association today, Oct. 1. Farmers National Company promoted Grant Fitzgerald to senior vice president of farm and ranch management. Former Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson was named a national nutrition, health and housing adviser at the Agriculture Department.