USDA Appointments Announced

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced key agency appointments within USDA. Pennsylvania farmer Bill Beam will lead the Farm Service Agency. Beam was the FSA deputy administrator of farm programs during the first Trump administration. The administrator of the Risk Management Agency is Iowa farmer Pat Swanson. Swanson has served a term on the Federal Crop Insurance Board and was a national director for the American Soybean Association. Swanson and her husband also own a crop insurance agency. The new Natural Resource Conservation Service chief is Aubrey Bettencourt. Bettencourt was a deputy assistant secretary in the Interior Department during Trump’s first term. She is now a government relations director for an irrigation company and previously served as president and chief executive officer of the Almond Alliance.