Articles Tagged with ''National Pork Board''

Producer-led advisory committee advancing new National Swine Health Strategy

05/13/26 6:05 AM By Lydia Johnson

As disease pressures continue to challenge pork producers across the country, a new producer-led advisory committee met for the first time this month to focus on strengthening the health of the U.S. swine herd.

Even stepping down as Pork Board CEO

04/03/25 10:18 AM By Lydia Johnson

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National Pork Board CEO Bill Even will step down from his post on May 1 after nine years and return to his family’s South Dakota farming operation. Alex Wibholm will serve as interim CEO

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Hall tapped as FCA chair, Vilsack to lead WFPF

01/29/25 6:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

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President Trump designated Jeffery Hall as board chairman and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration. Glen Smith of Iowa was elected chairman of the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation board of directors.

Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been named CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. The American Peanut Council hired Kate Maher as membership manager.

Farm Hands on the Potomac: Steiner joins OFW; USDA staff appointments; CoBank taps Burke

07/24/24 6:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

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Washington veteran Eric Steiner will join Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz’s (OFW) Government Relations’ team as a senior policy advisor. The Agriculture Department announced senior appointments and promotions across the agency, including: Cindy Long, Sean Babington, and Eric Deeble. CoBank named; Sean Burke; as chief financial officer. He will lead the cooperative bank’s finance group. Animal Health Institute president and CEO Mathews will retire at the end of 2024.

Novak out the door at CropLife America

09/29/23 1:16 PM By Steve Davies

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CropLife America has decided to part ways with President and CEO Chris Novak, who has headed the pesticide industry organization since August 2018.

Farm Hands on the Potomac: FDA taps first deputy commissioner for human foods

08/30/23 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

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Jim Jones has been selected by the Food and Drug Administration to serve as the first deputy commissioner for human foods and Pivot Bio has named Chris Abbott as the new CEO.

Farm Hands West: ADAMA names new president

04/12/23 7:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

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Fall Creek Farm and Nursery has promoted Cecille Madriz to grower support representative for customers in California and North Carolina and Rachelle Schulken has been brought on to the Organic Produce Network as the new vice president of events.

Farm Hands on Potomac: USDA promotes two and adds one, Eichlin tapped to lead US crop communications at Syngenta

04/12/23 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

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Kathy Eichlin has been selected as the head of U.S. crop protection corporate communications for Syngenta North America and Former Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has joined Husch Blackwell Strategies, where he will chair a new leadership strategies advisory services group.

Differing conservation standards adding wrinkle to USDA-funded climate-smart projects

03/29/23 6:25 AM By Steve Davies

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The Agriculture Department is working with groups involved in the $3.1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program to provide flexibility to farmers on how they plant cover crops, in order to ensure enough farmers sign up for the projects.

Daybreak March 8: Dairy producers endorse plan to modernize federal milk marketing orders

03/08/23 10:00 AM By Steve Davies, Jacqui Fatka, Bill Tomson, and Noah Wicks

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After more than two years of discussion and more than 130 meetings, the National Milk Producers Federation Board of Directors unanimously endorsed a comprehensive plan to correct shortcomings exacerbated during the pandemic regarding pricing regulations for milk.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Karen Ross on California agriculture, water, MAHA, Prop 12

California agriculture operates at a scale and under conditions unlike anywhere else in the country, yet the policy decisions extend far beyond state lines. We spent the week in Sacramento for the annual Agri-Pulse Food and Ag Issues Summit West and caught up with California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross to discuss the challenges, opportunities and innovations shaping California agriculture, and why the rest of the country should be paying attention to the Golden State.

Plus, Ag Council of California President Emily Rooney outlines concerning plastic and packaging regulations and Chris Zanobini, president and CEO of Ag Association Management Services Inc., describes the "regulatory jenga" plaguing California agriculture.

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