Longtime Washington farm hand Mike Seyfert has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Grain and Feed Association. The agribusiness lobbyist and former congressional staffer will officially assume his new duties March 1.

Randy Gordon, who has been with the National Grain and Feed Association for the last 43 years and its CEO for the last eight, plans to retire from the organization next year.

Drivers may be in short supply this spring without regulatory relief from the states and federal government, industry groups and some farmers are saying.

More than 60 agricultural groups are asking states to increase weight limits for trucks in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

A divided Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposes new position limits for market speculators along with expanded exemptions that would benefit grain processors and other companies that hedge their risks in agricultural commodities.

Dan Mauer joins CHS based in the Washington, D.C. office, the U.S. Wheat Associates brings three on to its team, and the National Grain and Feed Association promotes six staff members.