Seth Meyer, USDA's chief economist for nearly five years, will lead the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute starting Jan. 1, according to the school.
Meyer will take over for Pat Westhoff, who has held the position since 2011 and is retiring March 1, the university said in a statement Tuesday. Prior to Meyer’s appointment as the USDA's top economist, he served as associate director for FAPRI and also headed USDA’s World Agricultural Outlook Board, a key office in assessing supply and demand for domestic and global crops.
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As chief U.S. agriculture economist since January 2021, Meyer has overseen the release crucial data amid the Covid-19 pandemic, devastating hurricanes and droughts, the war in Ukraine, and President Donald Trump’s trade wars with China and other key nations. His move back to the University of Missouri, widely known as Mizzou, comes as tariffs take a toll on crop farmers and federal officials deal with releasing a backlog of market information that was stalled during the recent six-week government shutdown.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins "is deeply grateful for Seth Meyer’s many years of dedicated service at USDA, where his leadership and expertise have made a lasting impact. On behalf of the department, she wishes him continued success at the University of Missouri," a USDA spokesperson said in a statement.
Meyer, raised in eastern Iowa and an alumnus of Iowa State University, has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri.
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