USDA has announced the latest slate of presidential appointments for Farm Service Agency and Rural Development state directors. In North Dakota, Brad Thykeson has been reinstated as FSA State Director and Tom Campbell was selected to lead the Rural Development office. Thykeson farms at Portland and is a past president of the North Dakota Grain Growers Association. Campbell is the co-founder of Campbell Farms and was a state senator. The new state executive director for Minnesota FSA is Butterfield farmer Kurt Blomgren. The Minnesota Rural Development state director was not announced. David Ladd has been nominated for the post. South Dakota was not part of Friday’s announcement.
