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Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 8/17/16
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced a 53-member agricultural advisory committee.
“Mr. Trump understands the critical role our nation’s agricultural community plays in feeding not only our country, but the world, and how important these Americans are to powering our nation’s economy,” according to a campaign news release.
Executive board members will convene on a regular basis.
Advisory board members include:
• Charles Herbster — National chairman of the Agricultural and Rural Advisory Committee for the Donald J. Trump Campaign for President
• Sam Clovis — National chief policy adviser for the Donald J. Trump Campaign for President
• Rebeckah Adcock — CropLife, senior director, government affairs
• Robert Aderholt — Congressman from Alabama; Chairman, Subcommittee on Agriculture
• Jay Armstrong — Kansas Wheat Commission; chairman, Farm Foundation
• Gary Black — Commissioner of Agriculture, Georgia
• John Block — Former Secretary of USDA
• Mike Brandenburg — State legislator, North Dakota
• Terry Branstad — Governor of Iowa
• Sam Brownback — Governor of Kansas
• Chuck Conner — CEO, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
• Mike Conaway — House Agriculture Chairman
• Jack Dalrymple — Governor of North Dakota
• Dennis Daugaard — Governor of South Dakota
• Rodney Davis — Congressman from Illinois; House Agriculture committee
• Mary Fallin — Governor of Oklahoma
• Eddie Fields — Senator, Oklahoma; Chair, Senate Ag and Rural Development
• Steve Foglesong — Former president, National Cattlemen's Beef Association
• Jim Gilmore — Former governor of Virginia; chairman of Report on Terrorism and Agro-Terrorism
• Bob Goodale — Former CEO of Harris Teeter
• Bob Goodlatte — Congressman, Virginia; Former chairman, House Agriculture Committee
• Mike Green — State Senator, Michigan; Appropriations Agriculture chair; Senate Agriculture Committee vice chair
• Helen Groves — Rancher; daughter of Robert Kleberg (King Ranch, Texas)
• Ron Heck — Iowa farmer and past president of the American Soybean Association
• Dave Heineman — Former governor, Nebraska
• Hans Hunts — State legislator, Wyoming; Wyoming House Ag Committee; rancher
• Cindy Hyde–Smith — Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
• Brent Jackson — State senator, North Carolina
• A.G. Kawamura — Former California Secretary of Food & Agriculture
• John Kautz — California wine producer; CEO Ironstone Vineyards
• Charlotte Kelly — Tennessee cotton grower
• Mark Killian — Arizona Commissioner of Agriculture
• Brian Klippenstein — Protect the Harvest
• Tsosie Lewis — Former CEO of Navaho Nation's Agricultural Products Industries
• Forrest Lucas — CEO, Lucas Oil; Protect the Harvest
• Mike McCloskey — CEO, Fair Oaks Farms
• Beau McCoy — Nebraska state senator; Council of State Governments chairman
• Ted McKinney — Former director of Global Corporate Affairs for Elanco Animal Health
• Sid Miller — Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
• Jim Moseley — Former Deputy Secretary of USDA; EPA consultant
• Brian Munzlinger — Chairman, Missouri Senate Ag Committee
• Casey Murdock — Oklahoma state senator
• Tom Nassif — President, Western Growers; Former ambassador
• Garry Niemeyer — Former president, National Corn Growers
• Bill Northy — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture
• Sonny Perdue — Former Georgia governor
• Rick Perry — Former Texas governor
• Ryan Quarles — Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture
• Bruce Rastetter — Summit Ag Group; hosted first Republican Presidential debate
• Jim Reese — Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture
• Larry Rhoden — South Dakota state senator
• Pete Ricketts — Governor of Nebraska
• Pat Roberts — U.S. Senator, Kansas
• Marcus Rust — CEO, Rose Acre Farms (egg producer)
• Leslie Rutledge — Arkansas attorney general, married to a soybean producer
• David Spears — Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Dole ag adviser;
• Mike Strain — Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture
• Red Steagall — Official cowboy poet of Texas
• Annette Sweeney — Former Iowa House Agriculture chair
• Kip Tom — CEO, Tom Farms LLC, the largest farm operator in Indiana
• Johnny Trotter — CEO of BarG, a 125,000-acre feedlot operation and 10,000- acre farm in Texas
• Steve Wellman — Former president, American Soybean Association
• Walt Whitcomb — Maine Ag commissioner
• John Wilkinson — Georgia state senate ag committee chairman
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