(Des Moines)– Iowa’s Agriculture Secretary has earned a top spot in a national agriculture group.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey has been elected Vice President of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture. The department says the position means Northey is on track to become the group’s next President.
If that happens and Northey is elected to a second term he would host state agriculture leaders in Iowa in 2012.
The group is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association. It represents commissioners, secretaries, and directors fo the state departments of agriculture.
Northey is a corn and soybean farmer from Spirit Lake.
(Story from the Associated Press.).
