Source: NC AGRIBUSINESS COUNCIL


President Trump plans to nominate Jay Angle of Alabama, to be Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Department of Agriculture (NIFA), for a term of six years.

Dr. J. Scott Angle received his B.S. in Agronomy and M.S. in Soil Science at the University of Maryland. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri with an emphasis on Soil Microbiology. Dr. Angle worked for 24 years as a professor of soil science and administrator for the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and Maryland Cooperative Extension at the University of Maryland. His work focused on heavy metals and their interaction with the environment.

In 2005, he moved to Athens, Georgia, where he served as dean and director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia for 10 years. He is a fellow in the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America. He is also a Fulbright Fellow, having worked at the Rothamsted Research Experimental Station in the United Kingdom.

Most recently, Dr. Angle was the president and CEO of the International Fertilizer Development Center.

Several news outlets in the Washington, DC area have announced the appointment of Dr. Angle and have noted that his appointment comes at the very time that the U. S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to move NIFA our of the National Capital Region.