Behind the Scenes
Ag media exec moves up at USDA
Thumbing through old copies of Progressive Farmer, you can find the publication’s masthead listing the name of a newly seated USDA executive. Yesterday, Ag Secretary Mike Johanns named Allan Johnson as the #2 guy at Rural Development. Johnson once served as the President of Farm Progress Companies, and helped launch the company into a major publishing house of agriculture magazines. Several years ago he retired from the magazine business and ended up in Washington, working in Public Affairs at Rural Development. He’s got a lot of great experience outside of the Beltway, so I’m certain we (farm media) will be able to work well with him in his new position.
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