USDA nominee Northey finally cleared by full Senate

Sen. Cruz lifts his four-month hold on Iowa secretary of agriculture nominated for USDA undersecretary post.

Jacqui Fatka, Policy editor

February 27, 2018

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USDA nominee Northey finally cleared by full Senate
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (right) was joined by Iowa Secretary for Agriculture Bill Northey on Friday, November 10th, 2017, for an agriculture tax and risk management roundtable at Rain and Hail’s headquarters in Johnston, Iowa.USDA

About the Author

Jacqui Fatka

Policy editor, Farm Futures

Jacqui Fatka grew up on a diversified livestock and grain farm in southwest Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications, with a minor in agriculture education, in 2003. She’s been writing for agricultural audiences ever since. In college, she interned with Wallaces Farmer and cultivated her love of ag policy during an internship with the Iowa Pork Producers Association, working in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Capitol Hill press office. In 2003, she started full time for Farm Progress companies’ state and regional publications as the e-content editor, and became Farm Futures’ policy editor in 2004. A few years later, she began covering grain and biofuels markets for the weekly newspaper Feedstuffs. As the current policy editor for Farm Progress, she covers the ongoing developments in ag policy, trade, regulations and court rulings. Fatka also serves as the interim executive secretary-treasurer for the North American Agricultural Journalists. She lives on a small acreage in central Ohio with her husband and three children.

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