(Des Moines, IA) — An Iowan who served nearly three years in the Trump Administration is heading home.
Bill Northey resigned as Iowa agriculture secretary in March of 2018 to become under secretary for farm production and conservation in the U-S Department of Agriculture.
Northey said, “it’ll be different waking up now every day not thinking about all the things we need to do at U-S-D-A.”
Northey, a Spirit Lake native, helped draft the agency’s rules for implementing the 2018 Farm Bill and he helped set up the payments to farmers impacted by trade disputes and the pandemic.
As the former state ag secretary exits the U-S-D-A, a former Iowa Governor is returning. Tom Vilsack served as President Obama’s secretary of agriculture for eight years and will hold that position in the Biden Administration.
Sixty-one-year-old Northey says he’s not ready to retire.
