During next month’s American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, Bill Northey will be honored posthumously with the organization’s Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award. Northey served as the USDA undersecretary for farm production and conservation during the first Trump Administration. Northey is also a former Iowa secretary of agriculture and a past president of the National Corn Growers Association. a former Iowa secretary of agriculture and a past president of the National Corn Growers Association.
