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Perdue names Lohr NRCS chief

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue has named Matt Lohr of Virginia chief of the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Lohr will lead the agency’s efforts to work with farmers to protect and conserve the nation’s natural resources.

Lohr tells Brownfield he’s looking forward to collaborating with farmers and stakeholders across the country.

“By being able to listen and learn and understand and then having my own personal background that I can bring the to the table, we can really have great discussion and look for ways to come up with some really creative solutions for some of these challenging issues,” he says.

Prior to joining NRCS, he served in the Virginia Legislature, was Virginia’s Commissioner of Agriculture, worked as Knowledge Center Director for Farm Credit of the Virginias, and since June 2017 has been farming full-time on his family farm in the Shenandoah Valley.

Lohr is also a past Virginia state and National FFA Officer.

AUDIO: Matt Lohr, chief USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Services