Task force required to issue report with recommendations for legislative and administrative actions within 180 days.

Jacqui Fatka, Policy editor

June 15, 2017

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Perdue hosts inaugural Agriculture & Rural Prosperity task force meeting
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue hosts the inaugural meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, where he is joined by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, and other government officials, to set the stage, for work the Task Force must do to identify legislative, regulatory, and interagency policy changes and actions that promote agriculture and economic development, and quality of life in rural America, on June 15, 2017, in Washington, D.C.USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

About the Author(s)

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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