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New FSA Directors coming under Trump administration

 

Changes at the White House also mean changes at state Farm Service agencies.  Wisconsin’s FSA State Director Patty Edelburg tells Brownfield FSA State Directors, like her, will be replaced.  State FSA Directors are appointed and asked to resign when a new administration takes over.

But Edelburg says farmers shouldn’t have any problems with the transition.  She says, “All of the career employees will still be there so they’ll still be working hard, working for the mission, working for the farmers, working for the landowners, so anybody out in the countryside won’t hardly even see a change.”

 

Naming the new FSA State Directors may take time, since President-Elect Donald Trump has yet to name an Agriculture Secretary.

 

Edelburg was appointed during the Obama administration but tells Brownfield she would stay on if asked.  “I think so.  Absolutely.  I’ve really absolutely enjoyed this position.  It’s a great agency, great people, and great people that you’re working for.”

 

Edelburg says the incoming Trump administration will have to replace two other Obama USDA appointees besides herself in Wisconsin.  “Stan Gruszynski from Rural Development, his position is also an appointed position, so he’ll be done.  Not an appointed position, but Jimmy Bramblett who is the head of the Natural Resources Conservation Service for the last number of years, he’s taking a job out in Washington, D.C.”

 

The new administration takes over next Friday.