Moments of silence were observed in the Iowa House and Senate this morning to honor former Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey, who died unexpectedly at the age of 64. Northey served more than a decade as state ag secretary before his appointment as a USDA Under...
An Iowan who served nearly three years in the Trump Administration is heading home. Bill Northey resigned as Iowa Ag Secretary in March of 2018 to become Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “It’ll be...
Former Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey, now a top administrator in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, today said farmers “need more assurances” about ethanol, but Northey said he’s unaware of what’s in the “giant package” President...
Iowa’s former secretary of agriculture is back in the state to survey flood damage and talk to displaced residents, especially farmers who have had many hundreds of acres underwater. Bill Northey, now an undersecretary at the U.S.D.A., says it was...
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey’s nomination to a position in the U.S.D.A. cleared the committee level in the U.S. Senate last week, but he isn’t sure when the final step will take place. “I’ve kind of given up making predictions, we...
