Late last week before recessing for a two week break, the Senate Agriculture Committee cofirmed Kathleen Merrigan as the new Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. A member of the sustainable ag "dream team," she brings decades of Beltway experience to the job, having spent six years for the committee itself, and from 1999 to 2001 was Administrator of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of which the National Organic Program is a part.
Her most recent position was as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. at It is hard to imagine a more forward-looking, progressive choice for this position!
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